Pregnancy Week 25 Update & Glucose Tolerance Test

I am now 26 week's and 3 days pregnant so I am a bit slow in posting my 25-week pregnancy update. You can read about week 23 and 24 of my pregnancy in my previous update.

I have been quiet on my blog lately as I have just been so busy, we are busy sorting out Sophia's first birthday which is soon. I have also been so busy trying to get everything sorted for Chloe's holiday as she is off to Marbella in Spain with her grandad this weekend, it is a last minute holiday so I have been trying to arrange passport renewal's for her (what a nightmare) and holiday clothes shopping etc. Both the girls have been so busy with activities the last two week's and I have had midwife and hospital appointments. 

Baby is defiantly so lazy compared to the girls, the only time it kicks is after I have eaten, when I am in the bath and when I go to bed. I am still feeling really great, the sickness seems to have vanished (touch wood). I still have heaps of energy, I feel totally normal and not at all pregnant. 

We still do not have a baby name for a girl we have mentioned a few we like but none that I am totally in love with, the other half really likes a name and I like it it's a name I nearly called my eldest but I just don't love it. We still have not started baby shopping either I really must start looking for double pram's so I can get it ordered and delivered in time before baby arrives. I have not had any midwife appointment's this week but I did have a glucose tolerance test at the hospital.

Glucose tolerance test

I had to have a glucose tolerance test to check for gestational diabetes as diabetes runs on my mum's side of the family so this put me at increased risk of it. I had the test done last year when I was pregnant with my daughter which was negative, but I had to get it done again in this pregnancy just to be safe.

 I had an appointment at 10am at the hospital. I was not allowed to eat or drink anything from 10pm the night before apart from water on the morning of my test, I was starving. I arrived at hospital at 10am was taken to a room and had blood's taken and then I was giving a measured amount of glucose to drink (it was approx 2 plastic cup's full) the drink was awful it was meant to be orange flavour but it just tasted of a really weak, very sweet drink and was horrible to drink on an empty stomach it made me feel really sick .

The test had changed since I had it done last year as I was giving Lucozade last time and I was allowed to drink water in between blood tests.

 I then went and sat in the waiting room for two hours and I could not eat or drink anything, not even water. Luckily I had taken a couple of magazines with me to read. 

When the two hours were up I was taken back into a room and given another blood test and then allowed to go home. I was told I would only receive a phone call within the week if I was found to have gestational diabetes, it has been a week now since my test and I have not received a call so I thankfully do not have gestational diabetes. 

How I am feeling this week.

As I have mentioned I am still feeling really good I am really enjoying this pregnancy and it is still going really well and straight forward. I am sleeping much better now and not waking up loads during the night which I am making the most of before baby arrives.