I’ve been assembling the freecycled pram we got a few months ago. We took it apart to clean it. The reassembly should have been simple since I took it apart, but that was a while ago so there was a fair amount of head scratching, assembling, disassembling, reassembling correctly and so on.
Her ladyship was at the hospital for a check up on Tuesday and it turns out that the glucose tolerance test which was done at the local health centre and which caused all this worry, was not done correctly. The procedure involves measuring the patient’s blood glucose level first thing in the morning, giving her some glucose (Lucozade in this case) and then re-measuring after 2 hours. It measures how fast the glucose level returns to normal. What they’re supposed to do is give you all the lucozade at once, but Lorna was told to sip it over an hour. So the reading they got was 1 hour after she had the last mouthful rather than 2. So of course it was high. She’s been measuring blood glucose twice a day for the past three weeks and all the results have been normal.
So that means we’re OK for a birth with as little intervention as we can get away with and it also means that we’re OK to go on holiday next Monday:-)
