On The Road To Baby Time

A couple days ago we went off to the hospital for our monthly checkup. The doctor was so impressed with Amanda's blood glucose scores. I think she almost was about to say that it seemed like the diagnosis was incorrect (as I still think) but she didn't. That's ok though, I'll get over it. I know I've said this before but being diagnosed with gestational diabetes isn't too bad of a thing. I have already lost about 15 lbs using our low carb low sugar diet. My beer/food/sitting around/sympathy pregnancy belly is shrinking daily!

We also are now on what was supposed to be 2 week doctor visit intervals, however due to their having no openings it'll be 3 weeks. That's how you know you're getting close to baby time.

Doctor's Office Testing

Today we went out to the hospital for our monthly examination. We went for the regular pregnancy checkup, which could basically be phoned in (weight, blood pressure, "Any pains?"). There was one other thing though, Amanda had to get her blood drawn for a diabetes test.

You see some ladies get a form of diabetes called gestational diabetes while they're pregnant. She had a blood test one of the first appointments and she was borderline for having it. So they had to do another test to see if she do got it. She had to drink a glucose drink called Glucola, orange flavor, and she doesn't like it. I tried a few sips and she's right about it being no good. We'll know the results in a couple days. We're crossing our fingers hoping she doesn't have it. It wouldn't be the end of the world if she did but it wouldn't be the beginning of the world either. So I'll let you all know what happens.

We also got set up for our next appointment. It should be the last monthly appointment and then we'll go to bi-weekly (from what I read) since we'll be so close to the end of pregnancy and beginning of having a baby. So that's pretty cool. We did a little bit of looking over a calendar and found that October 1 as a due date would make it 38 weeks. That sounds reasonable I guess, so it may be then after all.

Well, happy rest of Thursday and a real great Friday and I'll be writing to you later. Byebye. 

Pediatricians and Tony Hawk

So since we're going to be having a baby and that baby will need to see a doctor, we're going to need to find a pediatrician for her.

Ethan Tony Hawk has kids too and needs a pediatrician, at least in the following video which is pretty hilarious and produced by CBS Sports(What The H?) It's called "Hawk Eyed" and stars a guy who is a Stay At Home Dad who takes his kid to the doctor and sees Mr Hawk in the waiting room with him. The dad is having a case of mistaken identity and hilarity ensues!









So I did some checking on the website for our insurance to see where available pediatrician's offices are located. You know what I found out? I found out that there's a whole suite of them just blocks away from where we live. How convenient is that? We'll have to go in and make sure they're alright people and whatnot, I'm sure they're fine. I checked out the Automated Licensure Information System Online (ALISON) and found nothing bad about the doctors. So it'll be up to how we get along with them or whatever when/if we go in and check them out as is recommended (with about a month to go in the pregnancy).

That will be so nice, our doctor is located pretty far away from us so it makes it a pain to have to go there (plus they suck as doctors). I could even walk there if I had to, but I'm not planning on doing that, Amanda. So if little Eliza needs to get to the doctor post haste there will be no problem.

Well, that's it for now. I'll see you all later and don't forget to "Like" Stay At Home Brad on Facebook if you haven't already. Take care y'all