Re: glucose tests in pregnancy - Katja

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Dear Katja:

Thanks for all the info and for checking with your midwife. I am

checking on " peeing on the stick, " but I don't know of that's an

option here in VA. Everyone seems to be pushing the 3-hour test (4

blood draws involved) with the 3-day diet and the glucola drink.

I'm talking to the midwives at my birth center tomorrow, and we'll

see what they say when I ask either to take a different test or at

least skip the 3-day carb heaven diet. I am getting some help from a

nutritionist who's Weston Price oriented. She has taken me off the

raw milk, yogurt and kefir, saying this might be what is spiking my

blood sugar, and made some other changes to my diet, nothing

drastic. This is my second day on it, and I'm feeling pretty good.

I'll also check around with the hospitals I might got to and their

policies. And I'm looking at the midwifing websites.

Thanks again. Did you say 50 hours of labor? I've been impressed

with my 22. =-)

Kathy