As most of you know I successfully failed my glucola test and have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Leave it to me to have every condition possible with pregnancy. I am totally kidding, much worse could happen. No complaints here! Today Tanner got checked out and won the precious award :) He is fat; now weighing in at 4 pounds 2 ounces. They said this is about 10 days ahead of schedule. Other than that all checked out perfect. They significantly decreased my thyroid medication dose today to see if we can get Tanner's metabolism up and possibly prevent a huge baby. It takes 3 weeks for the medication to really make a difference so I will recheck my levels in close to 4 weeks and see how things are going. I am a little apprehensive about lowering my dose seeing how I finally got my levels normalized, but I am willing to do whatever is needed to keep Tanner from being a 10 pounder :) I am to keep checking my blood sugars watching my diet. He said not to get discouraged if my sugars start to creep up even if I am being perfect with my diet. He said that the hormone that is produced by the placental that is causing the diabetes increases as the pregnancy continues and that there is a good chance diet alone won't keep my blood sugars stable. But no worries, he said he would just add an oral medication that won't get to Tanner and it would keep the sugars under control. So overall, it was a good check up. I see him back in 4 weeks for another ultrasound and a "non stress test" that will make sure Tanner's heart rate is doing what it should and is a check for fetal well-being. Enjoy the precious pictures - - - he is so cute with his chubby cheeks !!!
