A few more days to enter Week 27.
Had to do MGTT (Modified Glucouse Tolerance Test) in week 24. This is where you have to fast for 8 hours before you are given a mug of pure glucouse to swallow. After 2 hours you need to come back and check for glucouse level in your blood.
I did my MGTT like 5 years ago. Then I had to swallow pure white glucouse. Now it taste like over the top manis ribena. Do you know how it feels to have to drink pure glucouse after not eating anything the past 8 hours? While you are pregnant? Pure torture I tell you!!! Also, because the last time I did it was 5 years ago so of course I wouldn't remember the dos and don'ts - like not eating within that 2 hours... oppss!
Sigh... because I was too eager to eat before going to the clinic (dah la belasah nasi beriyani dengan lauk ayam masak merah, air fresh orange pulak tu. Mana aku tau tak leh makan!) now I have to go for another test called BSP (Blood Sugar Profiling). BSP is only for those high risk of being diabetic (tinggi la bacaan glucouse level masa buat MGTT tu dah belasah makan sesuka hati khennn!). For all my previous pregnancies I was always suspected to be a high risk diabetic walhal sebelum pi ambik darah dok belasah minum air kotak la, minum air sirap la, mmg la bacaan gula tinggi. Tak pernah serik2 taw.
BSP is where I need to fast for 8 hours then get my blood tested. And repeat another 3 times for a total of 4 blood extraction. At least this time I don't have to fast the whole day, only the 2 hours before the next blood extraction. Probably blood extraction is not the correct word. I'm guessing my finger will be poked with a device to draw a teeny weeny drop of blood. That was what happened when I took the MGTT test.
BSP is where I need to fast for 8 hours then get my blood tested. And repeat another 3 times for a total of 4 blood extraction. At least this time I don't have to fast the whole day, only the 2 hours before the next blood extraction. Probably blood extraction is not the correct word. I'm guessing my finger will be poked with a device to draw a teeny weeny drop of blood. That was what happened when I took the MGTT test.
Some other reason for getting an MGTT test is when there was a previous history of being diabetic while being pregnant, over the age of 35, or where the weight increases more than 1.5 - 2kg a month. I am over 35 years of age now. And I gain an average of 4kg a month *gasp*. Tak payah la nk terkejut sangat. That has always been the trend for all of my previous pregnancies so why expect anything less for this one right?
Since I have to go and visit the clinic a total of 4 times in a day, I won't be able to go anywhere tomorrow. Dah la cuti maulidur rasul esok. Budak2 mandi kolam depan rumah je la jawabnya...
Padan muka aku.
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