Those of you who check this blog regularly have probably noticed that its title, Arden’s Saga, hasn’t changed. Does this mean we’re completely decided on the name? Yeah, pretty much. I’m 100% in favor of Arden Rae as a first and middle name, but Gilly will only commit to being 99.8% sure (I didn’t make that up, she really said 99.8%). The reason she gives for not committing completely is, “What if she comes out and doesn’t look like an Arden?” I really don’t buy in to this excuse. I think naming her based on what she looks like when she comes out is a terrible idea. Conehead Brimberry just doesn’t have a very nice ring to it.

In all seriousness, it’s looking like Arden Rae is the name we’re going with. Of course, a friend of mine just told me yesterday about a couple he knows who just gave birth to a baby who was supposed to be a girl and, to their surprise, came out a boy. So I guess it would be prudent for us to have a back up boy’s name just in case.

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Last week we received confirmation that Gilly does not have gestational diabetes. This is great news because when she had her original glucose screening challenge (the one-hour test), she was just over the cutoff of 140 mg/dl. This was a bummer because it meant she had to go in for the fairly grueling glucose tolerance test, which involves having your blood drawn after fasting for 12 hours, drinking a super-sweet beverage (glucola), and then having blood drawn every hour for three hours. Luckily her numbers from the glucose tolerance test were great, so there’s no danger of gestational diabetes. That means a reduced likelihood of birth complications, and not having to test her blood sugar several times daily for the remainder of the pregnancy.

Yay!

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