January 13, 2021
I love these overalls! I have maternity ones that has just started to fit me
Yesterday I had a doctors appointment at a clinic I haven’t been to before. Normally I go to a place in New York but one of my obgyn’s started to work twice a week here in Stamford only a 5 minute drive from our home so I felt it was a good idea to check it out. Very big waiting area with spread out seats which was nice…as long as I was the only one there, but this large hospital facility was crawling (or rather wheelchair rolling) with really old people that I had to try to avoid on my way in and out.
Directly when I came in I peed in a cup like always and then I was given the drink for my glucose test. Normally you are given this in the previous appointment but my last one was a zoom call so I had to drink it when I got there and then after my meeting with the doctor I had to just sit there in the room for an hour and wait for the blood test. I had read before that this drink doesn’t taste very good but I thought it was fine. I got the orange flavor. It’s kinda weird to know that you are drinking 50 g sugar though.
Bump measured ok and baby’s heartbeat was strong ♥
I’ve never had problems with my thyroid but lately I have had tightness in my throat and even lost my voice at times so I asked my doctor to check this yesterday. She felt my throat and neck and said I don’t need a blood test, so my guess is that it’s probably caused by the super dry air in our apartment.
Then I had a few questions of course like always. One thing I asked was if Jim will be allowed during the whole labor and she looked at me with a big question mark in her face. I guess she didn’t know that in Europe the partners are not allowed inside the hospital until the very last push, but apparently it’s different here thank goodness, he just can’t leave the private room once he’s in. And then I asked if I can film the birth and she said no. My hospital has strict rules, I’m not allowed to film ultrasounds either to show J when I come home which is sad. The no filming of the birth of my own child is a bummer, ever since I saw a birth video of someone I know when I was a teenager, I’ve been thinking that if I ever have a baby I want to film it cause that’s like the coolest thing ever. I’m quite sad about this but hospitals doesn’t want you to have evidence in case they screw up and we would sue them.
I could luckily stay in the room during my one hour wait. This hospital has absolute no service, it even dies whenever we drive past this neighborhood haha. But in the room there was enough for me to at least be able to text to let J know when to come pick me up.
I got my results this morning. I’m slightly anemic which is weird since my prenatal vitamin that I take every day has the daily amount of iron in it plus since I got pregnant I have been eating more animal products and such that has iron. But oh well, my doctor doesn’t want me to take any extra supplements so that’s good.
And my glucose test was slightly too high so I have to go back in and do the 3 hour test to see if I have gestational diabetes. Many women end up with normal results and my level wasn’t too high so I’m not too worried about it, and if I do have it then I’m not too worried about that either, plenty of women get pregnancy diabetes and it usually disappears once you give birth.
I had never heard of this test before, I don’t think they really do this test in Sweden. I asked my sister, who you know had a baby 12 months ago, awhile ago if that drink really tastes as bad as I had read and she had no idea what I was talking about. She has no idea if they even checked her glucose. I did a quick google search earlier and it doesn’t seem like this is a standard thing to check in Sweden, they only do this test on women who have other factors that indicates they might have diabetes. I appreciate all the tests though, I want my baby and myself to be ok.
I will try to go in on Monday morning next week. We’ll see what the results show, hopefully baby and I are ok.