Healthy Pregnancy

[Kirsten]

Fuzzy: the GD test is the test for gestational diabetes, you have it at about 26 weeks from memory - Ammaki can confirm this

You drink a high glucose drink and then an hour later have a blood test to see what your body does with the sugar.

And there are no stupid questions, pregnancy (NOT TO MENTION BABIES) doesn't come with a manual

[luna moth]

cherished I have a pasta maker you can use while you decide if it's for you! I have not found a decent non-egg pasta recipe, so ours has not been used for over a year.

Sorry have been off with the fairies! We had a bunch of guests on the weekend, so was flat out with that! We had a great time though, and managed to eat well, in addition to knocking over a 20km bike ride, on my fixie! (so it's more like 30km on a freewheel)

Our dinner tonight was stirfried tempeh, capsicum and gai lan with rice noodles. It was pretty good.

I ate two lunches today I had some leftover couscous and pomegranate salad, and leftover minestrone. I thought I'd take both and see which one I felt like at lunch time. Well, I had the salad, and it was great, but I wanted more, so I had the minestrone as well! If I still haven't gained weight by next week, then something is WRONG!

Couscous and pomegranate salad
2 cups couscous
2 cups boiling water
2 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp cumin seeds
1/2 cup sultanas
1/2 cup smashed pistachios
1/2 cup chopped coriander
1 pomegranate, seeds only
3 sweet potatoes, cubed and roasted
big handful of baby spinach.

Put your couscous in a bowl with pistachios and cumin seeds. Add the boiling water and stand.
Chuck everything else in together and toss (I construct it a little bit artistically, but do it however)

[belfie]

haven't much time to post, but just wanted to pop in & nod approvingly at all the chatter about vomit & poo!! Did another good walk today and cooked chicken satay noodles nom nom nom. Bit fatty with the peanuts but ah well. Am trying to be kinda good. Think I could do a little better... bring on tomorrow.

[Dr. Tal]

Audax - I'm definitely going to be trying your salad on the weekend. I LOVE pomegranites! They've got to be my favourite fruit. As soon as we moved into our house the very first plant I planted was a pomegranite tree. It's had a couple blooms on it this year, so I am hoping that next year it will fruit for me. I also have a dwarf one in a pot so :crossfigers: between the two of them I should be set for pomegranites once they start to fruit.

Fuzzy - Pretty sure they have everyone do the GD (gestational diabetes test) between 26 and 28 weeks. I've also seen it referred to as the GCT (Glucose challenge test). Try not to worry too much about it making you sick. I've had M/S since day one, so I vomit at the drop of a hat. Most of the people I know who had it found it too sweet, but it didn't make them feel sick.

Belfie - for the walking. Considering how sick you were just recently I think you're doing pretty good.

Cherished - about the mortar and pestle looking really good on your kitchen bench. You crack me up.

[Cupcake]

Fuzzy: the GD test is the test for gestational diabetes, you have it at about 26 weeks from memory - Ammaki can confirm this

Also called the Glucose Challenge Test i think...and i had mine at 27 weeks

I have been very quiet in here becasue i do not belong here with the crap ive eaten in the past few days!

[fuzzy]

Thanks guys for sorting me out

Oh I had my 20 week scan yesterday at we found out we are having a girl!! This is our first bub - very excited. She was moving around a lot, opening and closing her mouth and waving her arms. She apparently has long legs which I thought was amusing xx So so happy today!

xx

[Dr. Tal]

Fuzzy - Congrats on a little girl. That's great that you had a good scan. Woudl have been great for you two to see her moving around in there. at her long legs. Make sure that daddy gets ready to fend off all the boys when they start knocking down the door

AFM - I'm off to the shops to buy some stuff for the pomegranite salad and to make more pasta (it was super yummy the other night and I think I want some more!)

[Cherished]

Fuzzy Congrats honey YAY a little girl

Audax that's very generous of you hon, I'll give dh's machine a go 1st and see how it turns out, re pasta with no egg, I've sure I made some spelt pasta without egg? I will check the mixture and get back to you. And there's nothing wrong with eating 2 lunches, I have 2 breakfasts most days

AFM I've just had a yum banana smoothie for lunch and am thinking I will be needing something more in an hour so need to get my shopping list together and head down to the shops. I'm a little challenged this week as I am cutting out the foods which give me eczema so that means no eggs (not that we really eat them), no oranges (and I really feel like them!) no wheat no tofu which we eat a couple times a week and the list goes on... I might have to get creative!

[Cherished]

Alrighty I found that pasta with no egg but it's gnocchi so you don't need a pasta maker anyway for that, I figure you've made heaps of gnocchi in your time Audax I made this dish ages ago and it was yum.

Parsnip gnocchi
500g cooked parsnip mushed 1 1/2 cups plain flour (I used seplt flour)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

Method, mix together roll in to a long sausage shape and cut into bite sized bits, flatten with folk, cooks in salted boiling water in about 2 minutes

Garlic herb butter (not very healthy with so much butter!)
100g butter
2 garlic cloved crushed
3 tablespoons lemon thyme
1 tablespoon grated lime zest

Method, melt butter and add the rest.

I put way more garlic and lime zest in mine and used regular thyme. The lime makes it really tangy, I think I may have even added some lemon juice?

[fuzzy]

Cherished- that sounds YUM. I am gunna try it

[hj1981]

Fuzzy - yay for a bubba girl!!! Good work Mr stork!


So sorry i have been MIA and for lack of personals and replys! i have been busy with Uni and assignments! but i must say your ladies sure do crack me up!

comming in here and reading whats going on definatly put a on my face!

So thankyou

[luna moth]

Ohhh, I love gnocchi. We are going round to a friends' place tomorrow night for a big batch. Can't wait.

Tonight we had borlotti bean and corn burritos. The old staple in this house! I managed two of them. Now guilting up for a dessert of apple and pear crumble. Gluten free, just cos I felt like it

Borlotti bean and corn burritos

1 onion, chopped
1 capsicum, chopped
1 corn cob, kernels off
1 cup borlotti beans, cooked
2 tomatoes, chopped
juice of 1 lime
as much chilli as you fancy
tortilla wraps.

To a frypan over high heat, add onion, stir for a minute til it starts to blacken a little. Add capsicum and lime juice, stir another minute. Add corn, stir. Keep the heat high, to make it nice and smoky. Add the tomatoes, then the beans. Chilli if you're using it.
Wrap up a bit of mix in each tortilla. We have it with tofutti betterthan cream cheese, but sour cream would certainly work.

Apple and pear crumble
1 apple, peeled and chopped
1 pear, peeled and chopped.

Dump these in your small baking dish.

1/4 cup margarine or butter
2 tbsp raw sugar
2 tbsp coconut
the remainder of a packet of GF flour (!) didn't measure, just used what was left
It was about 1/2 cup - I topped up with rice flour, makes it nice and crumbly.
Stir it up and crumble over your crumble.

Serve with ice cream to be completely decadent

[entreat]

WOO! weighed myself at the gym after BodyBalance tonight & I haven't put on extra weight since the start of March. I'm not in the slightest dieting, but going to the gym a few times a week is raising my metabolism. I looked at photos of myself from our Baby-Moon in February, and my face was really chubby. I feel so much more energetic now, and my face isn't as chubby. Oh, FYI, I was 84kg at 'conception', and am now 93.3kg.


Strange how it wasn't this easy to loose weight before I was pg... must have been the chocolate fridge at work.

I have to admit, I haven't yet tried the delicious recipes everyone has posted, but hopefully sunday I will cook that pumpkin soup & freeze it for after the baby's born. Some how I doubt I will be in a cooking mood in the first month!

ETA: I plotted the weights (forever the scientist) every month from conception to now & there's a massive leap over february (about 7kgs!)... did I mention I went on a 3-week-long Babymoon in feb...

[Kirsten]

Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?

oooh quiet in here.
I've been feeling rotten for quite a few days, feel pretty good today - I did some lavender stalk stripping today and it looks like the lavender has made me feel all better...yay.

I just got back from the supermarket (did a wander around and buy things I feel like eating type shop) this is what I bought (I am SO pregnant)

1 packet sea salt red rock chips
1 packet sea salt and balsamic vinegar red rock chips
1 lemon
5 mandarines
bunch of dutch carrots
Packet of saladas

And I feel like eating all of them now...but I got home and remembered my mum bought me a haighs dark choc covered nougat bar, so I ate that instead. I'll be chomping into those raw carrots very soon. YUM.

I have a poo vomit story, DS dd a poo in his night nappy this morning and when I was changing it, I had to run to the toilet and did a lot of loud heaving but no results....!! DAmn kid poo! it's even ranker when you feel awful.

Hey I want to know who designed pregnancy - who decided it would be a good idea to give you extreme sense of smell (I can smell a dog poo at 50 paces) combined with the ability to heave when you smell something unpleasant??????? DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME.

[luna moth]

Hey, Kirsten, I am SO with you one the supermarket shop! I went on Saturday and bought
2L soda water
1.5L cranberry juice
1L vanilla soy milk
1 packet rooibos tea bags
1 pkt fruity type tea bags
4 packets of vanilla soy yoghurt
2 bottles powerade
1 jar powerade powder concentrate

I think I might have been a little dehydrated! Everything except the yoghurt was a drink!

I am chowing down on digestive bickies and tea right now. I'm starting to feel better, but I just want crackers. And yoghurt.

[Kirsten]

Ha ha ha ha Audax: that's awesome...I am wanting juicey fruit and veg too....I would have bought mineral water to go with my lemon, but I know we have 6 bottles already - yum. lemon squeezed into mineral water