When I go back to our room, I told my hubby the result and even his self cannot believe it. So he suggested to do one more test. Again, still showing 2 lines. We've decided to keep it to ourselves first and wait for 1 more week. I couldn't hide this happiness I feel inside, I want to confirm my pregnancy as soon as possible so I could not wait for another 1 week. So after 5 days, I bought a Clear Blue Digital Pregnancy Test at Watsons, Compasspoint. This Clear Blue Digital PT will test how far are you in your pregnancy in weeks.
So, when I arrived home I go directly in our toilet to do my testing... Again, still positive and this time it is showing 1-2weeks (which will makes 3-4wks, additional 2wks when counted by the OB). At this stage, the next morning we've decided to set an appointment with an OB Gyne referred by one mommy from PinoySG forum.
First appointment with Dr. Dolly Wee @ Mt Elizabeth was on 7th December 2011. Done with my ultrasound and from that I saw my baby so tiny, not even a baby but looks like a bean from the monitor. No heartbeat yet as this is just so early, 5th week of my pregnancy. Then my OB scheduled a visit for another 2 wks.
Second appointment, 7th week of my pregnancy still with Dolly Wee, we can see that my baby's heart is now beating. A simple joy to celebrate for us! Dr Dolly advise me to do exercise and not just stretching coz I am so fat. She is really frank and careless with her words that's why I told my husband that I dont want her to be my gyne to this pregnancy journey.
My husband's colleague refer us a very good gyne from KKH - Dr. Wee Horng Yen. At first, I'm a bit hesitant to set an appointment with him coz he is a MALE gyne. We've done lost of reading from forums, google and lots of reviews about him and found out that he is really good in handling pregnancy, etc. I just think that I'm doing this NOT for myself, but for my baby. There's nothing important in this world, but my baby. So, we've set an appointment with him and from then on I found him good in handling his patients and I also feel comfort through him, as well as his assurance that my pregnancy/baby will be well until I give birth.
On my 20-24wks of pregnancy (forgot exactly which week or date), he requested me to undergo a OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test). His nurse ask me to do fasting from 8pm to 8am, 12hrs of no eating. Went to KKH early morning to the testing. I drink a super sweet drinks (almost a glass or 8oz) which the nurses prepared and advise me to go back after an hour. This time, still no eating and no drinking is allowed. One hour have passed and I came back to the nurses' station, this time will get sample of blood from me. They told me that I will receive a call if something is wrong in my result within 1 week time.
After 3 days, I was in the office, I received a call from my husband that KKH has called him and asking for me to return a call. So I do what they was told and found out that I am positive with GD (Gestational Diabetes). I cant believe it first but I just told myself that I'll just follow whatever their advise, all of this is for my baby. I went to Nutrition & Dietetics for 1 day, where there are nurses adn dietitian to teach us what to eat and NOT to eat during our pregnancy, as food intake monitoring is important in our condition. In this, we're only 3 mummies in this room for this day. In the end of the day, they provided us a booklet about dieting, daily meals and snack and to record the result of my blood sugar for every meal.
For 3 months after my positive GD result, I think I can say is I managed to eat well according to my diet plan though there is really sometimes that my result failed. :)
All I can say that my pregnancy went well except for my positive GD condition.
