Glucose Test Fun

The picture on the left is John on the day he was born.  The picture on the right is baby Baker at 20 weeks. I love how they both have their hands on their ears.  Notice any other similarities?

Well, I passed the glucose test.  I hate to admit it, but I was somewhat nervous.  I had eaten a big piece of chocolate pie the day before. Whoopsy!  The test wasn't too bad.  You have to drink 8 ounces of disgusting, overly sweet, tangy cool aid in under 5 minutes.  When I first took a sip I thought "hey, this will be easy!"  Half way through the bottle, however, I was gagging after every gulp.  I can't imagine what nauseous pregnant women do (And some people claim we are the weaker sex, PLEASE).  You have to wait an hour before they test your blood, so we brought some books to catch up on.  I had previously read about horrible blood sugar crashes that some women experience.  Some websites even suggest leaving your husband at home, because apparently you'll want to rip his face off in a crazed pregnancy rage (add that to those zombie stories).  Luckily, for both of us,  I didn't experience anything like that.  I did get super hyper at first (which may have caused John to want to rip his own face off) and I had to leave the waiting room to walk around a bit.  That could be typical Hilary behavior, though.  I got my results the next day and all was good, although my doctor did stress the importance of not looking at a passing score as a "lets go crazy and eat whatever we want" ticket.  That reminds me, there is some salsa that needs to be eaten right away!

Baby is being much more active.  He wakes me up every morning with little jabs, pokes, and flips.  It's really strange to feel him move from one side of my stomach to the other.  John asks me to describe what it feels like, but I'm not really sure I can.  It feels like it would on the outside, but on the inside. Definitely strange and wonderful at the same time.  When he's being really active at night I like to read to him or play some rockabye baby songs (there is a pandora station for that, so momma's-to-be check it out!).  It is just a really special and awesome time right now for us and I'm loving every second of every day!