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It has been a while since I have posted I have just been busy. Losing one twin was hard but we have had to move on from that and things are good. So at my first doctor appointment they do early diabetic screening if you have certain risk factors. I have multiple risk factors so of course I took the test. I failed the one hour test and moved on to the three hour test. You can only fail one of the 4 blood tests they take and I failed two. One by 6 points only! So normally you are diagnosed at around 24 weeks and you have to check your sugar 4 times a day. I was diagnosed at 12 weeks so I have 28 weeks of watching my sugar and carbs. It is really hard because I have a sweet tooth! You want your sugar under 120 two hours after every meal. Mine has been under 100 all week so today I got to splurge and eat a little cheesecake. I went to the doctor again last week and they did a blood test that can determine certain chromosomal abnormalities and she said it will also let us know what the sex of the baby was. They said it would take 2 weeks for the results. That was good because I had a 4d ultrasound scheduled for that time period. With this ultrasound the parents can get online and watch the ultrasound live and hear what is going on. That is exciting! When I got a message I had results on my patient portal I checked it not even thinking about what it might be. It was the results a week early! So now I know the sex and asked the dad's if they wanted to know or be surprised next week with the ultrasound. Of course, they wanted to know so I will be delivering a girl come August. I have to vent about the midwife at my doctors office, first she told me that because of my age and number of c-sections I have had I should probably not do this again. That I already knew so it was not a surprise. Then when she looked at my blood sugars she said you have the days but next time could you put dates. Her reasoning was that I could reuse the ones I had just given her. I was baffled because I don't take my sugars for her I do so to make sure the baby and I both remain as healthy as possible. Why would I make them up that wouldn't serve me to well. She was just kind of condescending and acted like I didn't know what I was doing. I wanted to remind her that this is my 6th pregnancy I think I can handle it. But I kept my cool and just let her give her speel and move on.