30 week check up

Yesterday, I had my 30 week OB appointment. Everything went fine. I am still measuring on time and all my blood work from my glucose test came back with me passing with flying colors.

What is an abnormal blood glucose level?
Different practitioners use different standards for determining whether your level is too high. Some will say that if your one-hour blood sugar level is 140 milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood plasma (mg/dL) or more, you need to have the glucose tolerance test. Others put the cut-off at 130 mg/dL to catch more women who may have gestational diabetes, even though there are likely to be more false positives this way.

If your blood glucose level for this test is higher than 200 mg/dL, most practitioners will consider you diabetic and you won’t be required to take the glucose tolerance test. But any score between 140 and 200 means that you’ll have to take the three-hour glucose tolerance test for a definite diagnosis.

My levels came back in the mid 80's which means, I am not even close to showing signs of gestational diabetes. Everything else looked good too, I am not anemic and doing well with the vitamins that I am taking.

My weight gain hasn't changed. Still up 21 pounds, as I did not gain any weight in the past 2 weeks. I have been told to continue to count kicks and now should be feeling at least 5 kicks 30 minutes after eating or 10 kicks in an hour (whichever comes first). That doesn't seem to be a problem for this baby as he definitely has his ACTIVE moments.

My next appointment is in 2 weeks.