More Good News...!

I got my results from my 3 hour glucose tolerance test and they were normal! Thank goodness - now I don't have to worry about that Gestational Diabetes hassle!

My blood pressure is still good. I am sitting here kind of dazed and amazed! This isn't really supposed to be possible - I went back and looked at my records for my other pregnancies, and I was definitely seeing high BPs by 32 weeks in ALL of them! [even at 22 weeks with baby #4!]. Statistically speaking, it is basically impossible that I would not have any BP trouble or pre-eclampsia in this pregnancy after having it in every single other pregnancy - it just doesn't happen like that!

So, I'm feeling cautiously optimistic here...maybe God really IS gonna perform a miracle! Would that be cool or what?

And, even if He is just holding it off for a while, I am SO grateful!

In other good news, I asked my sister if she would be at the birth with me and she was very excited to do it! My husband and I had both been very worried about this - we don't know how he will be doing stability wise when I go in to have the baby, and we were both worried about me being basically alone for the birth.

We had hired a doula [and lost $200 we definitely couldn't afford] to come to the birth, but she didn't work out at all and I had nobody else. So, I was definitely worrying about it.

I was afraid to ask my sister because she hadn't offered, and really, it is a LOT to ask someone to come to one of my births - besides being "on call" for a couple of weeks, there is also just the issue of it being a tremendously long, difficult, horrible induction process for me [at least in every other birth so far... maybe this one WILL be different!].

So, when I asked her and she was excited about it, it took a HUGE load off my mind! I feel so much better now, so much more at peace with the birth. :) :) :)

Anyway, it feels really good to be able to give a "good" update on the baby and the pregnancy when I am this far along - it is amazing!

Praise be to God!!!!!