26 weeks, 129.5 lbs

so those are my stats right now in my 26th week. i'm supposed to only gain a pound a week for the rest of my pregnancy. hope i can stick to that. i'm feeling pretty big. people are now offering their seats to me on the subway. you know your obviously large when that starts happening. the interesting thing that i've found is that it's mostly women that offer me their seat.

thursday i took the gestational diabetes test. results will be available by next Monday. i had to drink a bottle of some orange liquid that did taste like flat orange soda (my friend mentioned that's how it would taste). didn't taste bad at all. the week before i had to go to a specialist, cardiologist to get a fetal echocardiogram because they saw a glimmer in the baby's heart on one of the sonograms, which is an indication of calcium build up in the heart. it was really worrying, as that is considered a marker that increases your chances of down's syndrome. if they see this in a sonogram, then they need to check the heart for the existence of other markers. but in my case, the heart looked perfectly normal and fine so the Dr. told us there was nothing to worry about. it was stressing me out the moment my ob told me about it up until i had the appt with the cardiologist. it was such a relief to find out everything was ok.

now in all my pregnancy books, it warns against food poisoning and the like. it's going to make me paranoid about everything i eat.