{"id":225,"date":"2005-12-22T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/false-alarm\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T02:25:57","slug":"false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/22\/false-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"False alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call this morning from Michelle, our midwife, to let me know my gestational diabetes test had come back negative (meaning I don&#8217;t have it). Hooray!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOne of my measurements was close to the threshold, however, so she recommended I go in for a session of nutritional counseling to be on the safe side. I figure that&#8217;s good information\/help to have, so Steve and I will probably do that, especially since it&#8217;ll be covered by insurance.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;m a data geek, I graphed my results in Excel:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/pix\/gd_test.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt looks like I&#8217;m a little slower than usual to process glucose, but in the third hour I finally get rid of it dramatically. It makes more sense when I think about what I DID in those hours. The first two hours were spent sitting around, and in the last hour Steve and I were on our feet most of the time. That reinforces to me that I need to make sure I get enough exercise!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFYI, those measurements are in milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood plasma (or mg\/dL). My score on the original glucose screen was 148 (the threshold is 139).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call this morning from Michelle, our midwife, to let me know my gestational diabetes test had come back negative (meaning I don&#8217;t have it). Hooray! &nbsp; One of my measurements was close to the threshold, however, so she recommended I go in for a session of nutritional counseling to be on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}