The longest three hours, and a new diaper

This morning I got to go through the longest three hours of my life!! My midwife told me this past Wednesday that my numbers on the glucose screen were just barely over the cutoff, and that I had to do the three-hour glucose screen. Oh the joy!...

So I went in this morning to get it over with. Fasting is hard enough when you're not pregnant, but put a baby in your belly and it's much harder! After one super-concentrated, sickeningly sweet orange drink, three hours, and four needle pokes, I was feeling lightheaded, had a backache (from sitting on the waiting room chair for so long), was getting a migraine, and was super hungry!

But I survived, made it to the parking lot, and scarfed down the tuna sandwich I had brought. Tuna sandwich has never tasted so good! Anyway, here's hoping that my numbers come out okay. I'd really rather not be diagnosed with gestational diabetes right before Halloween and Thanksgiving. Boy, what a bummer that would be! Michelle, I totally admire your ability to keep with the GD diet, because just thinking that I might have to is making me grimace!

Anyway, on to funner matters - I finished making my first cloth diaper!



This is just the diaper pocket - there's an opening in the back where you stuff in a thick, absorbent soaker (I'll use prefolds, washcloths, whatever I find that works). I've got a couple other diapers that I've started, and enough fabric to make 30-40 diapers! Plus I have all that fleece for making water-repellent covers. I'm getting really excited about all this, making diapers is fun!


***Updated: As soon as I finished posting this, my midwife called. My glucose screen results are already in, and everything was fine! Hooray!!!! I don't have GD. I'm very relieved. :-)