No more soda!

I found out a week ago that I have gestational diabetes! I was really surprised since I am extremely low risk (low weight, no family history or anything like that) , but on the three hour glucose tolerance test, my second two readings were high.

I met with a diabetes counselor and a dietician at Sinai Hospital on Friday - I have to cut out my much loved regular sodas (as well as other sugars and carbs) and test my blood four times a day with all this fun stuff:

It has only been a week but has not been too bad so far. I am just thankful that it will only be for a few months and is not a lifetime diagnosis - and of course wanting a healthy baby is great motivation. Some things I thought I would never like have been surprisingly ok - Coke Zero and low sugar ice cream! Hopefully the diet changes I've made will keep things in check for the next twelve weeks.

My other baby

Who thinks this guy will be jealous when the real baby comes? He sure liked trying out the new glider with me...

Weekend getaway

Last weekend we went down to Petersburg, Virginia - half an hour south of Richmond - to visit my friend Susan, who is teaching 5th grade there. Other than the horrible 495 traffic going down on Friday evening, it was a great weekend. Saturday was beautiful and in the 70s, so we spent the afternoon at a place called Maymount Park with Susan, her fiancee Mike, Summer, and her fiancee Stephen.

I hadn't seen Susan since Christmas, so she was surprised by how big my bump has gotten, although the black shirt kind of hides it in the pictures!