3rd Trimester!

I will be 29 weeks pregnant on Tuesday.  It's nice to be in the final stretch to meet this baby.  Hopefully she comes at 38 weeks like her brother does.  I don't think I'll know what to do if she decides to go the full 40 weeks.  I'm already impatient enough as it is.  lol  The weirdest thing, all the sudden my nausea has come back.  Granted, it's not as bad as it was in my first trimester, but I don't remember this happening with my boys.  I guess it's the only thing that seems to be different between this 'girl' pregnancy vs. my 'boy' pregnancies.  It's strange to be gagging again every time I brush my teeth.

I had my glucose screening last week to test for Gestational Diabetes.  I failed the 1-hour screening by 30 points, so I have to go take the 3-hour test tomorrow.  Ugh.  They make you drink this highly concentrated glucose drink (tastes like really bad gatorade), which I chug down to make it more tolerable, then they draw your blood every hour for 3 hours.  I'm not looking forward to spending 3 hours in the lab, but at least I'll have my Kindle this time.  We didn't have these kind of gadgets when I was pregnant with Hayden and had to do the 3-hour test.  To be honest, I have been terrible and eating a TON of sugar and carbs with this pregnancy.  I think I have otter pop juice running through my veins.  Even if I pass the 3-hour test, I am definitely making some changes to my diet right now.  I know it's not healthy to eat like I have been, and while I'm doing much better than I did when I was pregnant with Hayden, there is always room for improvement.  I'm worried that IF I have GD my midwife won't be able to see me anymore because I'll be considered "high risk" and I'll have to transfer to an OB.

I also have low iron, so have to start taking an iron supplement.  I'm not surprised about that one, though.  I have had to take iron with a couple of my pregnancies, and I don't think the gummy vitamins I've been taking (instead of prenatal vitamins) have iron in them.