Had a Dr.'s appt. on Thursday- all is well....baby is moving and shaking and growing.....as I continue to expand. I underwent the glucose test to indicate whether I have gestational diabetes. Normal results are 70 - 129. My results came back at 132.....Hmmm..... So, this means I have to do a THREE hour test next week so they check my insulin levels once every 3 hours.
Since my original reading was not too far off the "normal" range, I am hopeful that the results of the three hour test will all come back normal. Since I had my Dr.'s appt yesterday and was heading to Montana for vacation, I did ask if I should do anything? Monitor anything? Apparently not. So, for now I am going to hope that I do not have gestational diabetes and that all is well. Even if I do have it, I am EXTREMELY grateful for the wonderful prenatal care I have.
On another note, I am so happy how details related to this little Baby are all coming together....things I worried about 3 months ago are all resolved. A big concern was childcare. Who will care for little baby when I return to work?
Sidenote: I really do want to return to work. :) I love my job! I love who I work with and I love the students who I have the pleasure of helping achieve their educational goals. I know it will be hard to return to work once I have this little baby whom I am completely certain I will love a thousand times more than my job. But, I have worked at Bethel for over 7 years and I am in a great fit and a smooth groove with all things job-related. Not to mention that living in a state where I feel I am just trying to survive the 6 months of winter a year, I know my job keeps me both sane and productive. I need a reason to get out of the house when it is 10 below zero. I need the great social interactions that my job provides to feed some life into me. My job is equally work and equally a source of community. So, I feel a huge peace about this decision that JVD and I have made. Not to mention that I hugely grateful for both the amount of support and flexibility I have in my job as I will be able to work 2 days from home and be in the office 3 days a week.
So, what to do for those 3 days that we are both at work? Well, there is a fabulous Child Development Center down the path from where my office situated. Every few months or so in the time I have worked at Bethel, when walking to and from my office, I have had the pleasure of spotting the Child Development Center kids being walked or strolled along the path by the lake. It is such a cute site to be seen. There are usually a couple toddlers holding hands, one or two toddlers trailing behind the others, another toddler who tips over and falls to the ground. When you spot the entourage of little people meandering down the path, you cannot help but smile. And so, as we began thinking about having a little Dworak, I just knew that I would want my litte one to be part of that cute little entourage of happy little tikes.
I took a tour of the Center back in April and found out I was on a waiting list. Oh no! So I checked out a couple other childcare centers...both of which were really nice. Which, I have to say, completely surprised me. I think I was expecting screaming children and frazzled workers and complete chaos and frenzy. Reality? Both childcare places were clean, calm, peaceful, colorful, and full of joy. I kind of feel like maybe they drugged all the babies and kids to be so happy on my tour? :)
Anyway, there was backup care available if the Child Development Center did not work out, but I really love the idea of being a 5 minute walk from my child. I love that I can choose to stop by during the workday and nurse if I want to. I love that I will be able to spot my own little tike toddling down the path with his or her little buddies in the coming years. I love that the Dworak family will all be able to drive to work/school together.... and so I am extremly happy to have found out last week that Baby Dworak will have 3 full days of care - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - at this wonderful Center beginning January. Yippee!
As for other things...finishing registering and reading up on all sorts of baby stuff...I kind of feel like I am cramming for an exam but I have no idea what will be on the test?
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