18 Weeks 3 Days

I checked my chart late last week and they documented that I have gestational diabetes and that they will not do the one hour test on me. I am not sure if they will still do the three hour test, but at this point, I don't see why they would. I'm already eating a diabetic diet and my blood sugars have been very good so far. I am very determined to keep off of insulin. They say there is nothing I can do to keep it from happening, but I'm going to try anyway. I am feeling frustrated with the diet, but I am making it work. It sucks, but what can I do?

My belly is getting bigger now - it's hard even to hide it beneath my scrubs. There's no way I could fit into regular clothes now. It's getting harder to get comfortable at night - still sleeping with lots of pillows. Ben is threatening to sleep downstairs just so the dog and I are not kicking him off the bed all night. I am completely oblivious to the fact that he has no room - just trying to make myself comfortable. :)

Baby is moving more now, but still not every day. I cannot wait for that to happen. Oh, and just over 2 weeks until the ultrasound where we can find out the gender. I am so excited to find out. If you haven't voted, now is the time.

I have been having trouble with my contacts lately. New eye doc and new lenses - I'm on my third trial pair with him. I just put them in tonight, but they already feel better than the other two did. Now we'll just see about tomorrow - see if I can make it a whole day at work wearing them. I keep wondering if it has been the lenses or the pregnancy that's making them not work. I have heard that pregnancy can affect your eyes - whether that's true or not, I don't know.

My hair is growing faster than usual. I am taking advantage and growing it out a bit. Slowly but surely - it was pretty short in the back so it will take awhile.

Ben and I took Hadley to a farm on Sunday and we picked strawberries. The crop was wonderful and the weather was perfect - not too hot but sunny and just breezy enough to keep away any bugs. Hadley kept picking the "green" ones and carrying them around. She was walking up and down the rows between Ben and me. She wouldn't really eat the ripe ones, either. It's weird, sometimes she likes strawberries and other times she makes a face and won't touch them. I think they can sometimes be tart at first and she thinks she won't like them. Crazy girl - she'll learn when she's bigger.

I work four days this week because someone is on vacation. I am going to be exhausted by Thursday, but we're going to the cabin with my family that night through Sunday, so I'll have plenty of time to relax after that. Cannot wait!