28 weeks!

Weekly check-in:

How far along?: 28w3d
How big is baby: Still the size of an eggplant!
Weight gain/loss: + 0 from last week; still 19 lbs
Pregnancy symptoms: Heavy belly, weight gain, kicks on my bladder, stuffy nose, pain on my inner thighs as soon as I stand up and after I've been sitting for a long time. I think the baby is sitting on a nerve. It goes away after I walk around.
Maternity clothes: Yes, yes! Still love to wear fitted tops and full panel pants/capris
Stretch Marks: None; still religiously applying Palmer's cocoa butter everyday
Sleep: still getting a decent amount of sleep (~7 hrs) although I feel I can sleep more
Best moment this week: Taking the childbirth preparation class with Daddy Jarbs
Movement: Yes. Last week, it felt like she was in a tranverse position (laying sideways) because I would gets kicks/jabs on opposite sides of my belly!
Food cravings: Nothing in particular. I had been laying off on sweets/carbs since my GD scare. I've been eating more proteins though.
Food aversions: I refuse to eat the adobo frog legs that Daddy Jarbs cooked. Eww! Even if I am not pregnant, I don't think I would want to eat it.
Labor signs: None
Belly button in or out: Poor belly button has been hanging on for dear life for weeks now. I think it's slowly losing the battle! :-(
What I miss: Eating/doing whatever I want without thinking about harming the baby
What I am looking forward to: Finding out the result of my 3 hr glucose test and hopefully it is to my favor! Keeping fingers crossed.
Milestones:

Baby's lungs are mature enough that, if born right now, she has a pretty good chance of surviving (with help from medical technology). Her skin is still pretty wrinkly (one byproduct of living in amniotic fluid) but will smoothen as fat continues to deposit.

3 hour glucose test today

Since the result of my 1 hr glucose screening test a week ago was abnormal, I had to take the 3 hour glucose tolerance test to determine if I have gestational diabetes. I arrived at the doctor's office at 8:30 am this morning. I did not eat or drink anything since about 8:30 pm the previous night. They drew blood around 9 am to take my fasting blood glucose. After that, I had to take a sugary drink similar to the one I had for my 1 hr test. This time, I had the orange flavor. I would have preferred the fruit punch but it's not available. The drink contains 100g of glucose which is double the amount of glucose compared to the fruit punch I had last week. My blood was drawn an hour after after I finished the drink and subsequently for the next 2 hours. The wait in the doctor's office was fine since I had magazines to read but I did not expect that the drink would make me reaaaally sleepy! I guess because it's because of all the sugar from the drink. I wanted to take a nap right at the clinic's reception area! The hunger did not even bother me much. After I left the doc's office (around 12:15 pm), I went straight to the Thai restaurant which is about a block away. Needless to say, I inhaled a whole order of chicken panang and 1 cup of rice (with mango sticky rice to go)! :-).