25-weeks down! 15 to go!

25-weeks along and about 15 weeks to go! Baby is about the size of a rutabaga weighing about 2 lbs and abou 9 inches long. 

I am currently fasting for the glucose screening. I failed the first test. The cut off is 140 and I was at 152. Hopefully it was just all the oranges I ate that morning. Anyway, for the 2nd screening you have to fast for 8 hours before your appointment... AND the appointment is 3 hours long! The fasting today is obviously the least of my concerns, but if I do have gestational diabetes, I will do everything I need to to keep manage it properly.

Gestational diabetes starts when your body is not able to make and use all the insulin it needs for pregnancy. 

It affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby's body has been formed, but while the baby is busy growing. 

Untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can hurt your baby. When you have gestational diabetes, your pancreas works overtime to produce insulin, but the insulin does not lower your blood glucose levels. Although insulin does not cross the placenta, glucose and other nutrients do. So extra blood glucose goes through the placenta, giving the baby high blood glucose levels. This causes the baby's pancreas to make extra insulin to get rid of the blood glucose. Babies with excess insulin become children who are at risk for obesity and adults who are at risk for type 2 diabetes.