Ugh.

Last Monday I drank the sugary/flat/orange drinky, that every pregnant woman does, an hour before my ob/gyn office took my blood, to test my sugar levels. Three days later I get a phone call from my doctor's office, and was informed that my numbers were a tad high. They needed me to come in and do another round of tests. Great.
I immediately google "what causes gestational diabetes?"
This is what I found on one site:

Who Is At Risk for Gestational Diabetes?

The following factors increase the risk of developing gestational diabetes during pregnancy:

• Being overweight prior to becoming pregnant (if you are 20% or more over your ideal body weight).
• Being a member of a high risk ethnic group (Hispanic, Black, Native American, or Asian).
• Having sugar in your urine.
• Impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose (blood sugar levels are high, but not high enough to be diabetes).
• Family history of diabetes (if your parents or siblings have diabetes).
• Previously giving birth to a baby over 9 pounds.
• Previously giving birth to a stillborn baby.
• Having gestational diabetes with a previous pregnancy.
• Having too much amniotic fluid (a condition called polyhydramnios).

Many women who develop gestational diabetes have no known risk factors.

Bullet points #1 & #2 fit my profile. I wasn't exactly skinny going into this pregnancy - but I wouldn't have considered myself obese. I had actually trimmed down quite a bit, due to eating clean and working out like a mad woman.... And I am 1/2 Filipino. So, maybe somewhat overweight + 1/2 asian = a whole chance to get this? I know, I'm strange. But I just wanted some answers. Like, could I have avoided it?

Either way...last night, starting at 7pm, I wasn't allowed to eat or drink a thing for 12 hours. I got myself up and ready to go, and arrived promptly at 7am - ready to go. Were they ready? Nope. I sat there for 20 minutes!!! There was one other person in the waiting room - waiting. Don't they know who's out here? Waiting. Hungry. Pregnant. Hello?! Then the 3 hour process began. I get my blood drawn at around 7:25am, then had to drink the orange drink AGAIN. Go back into the lobby to be called back a long hour later. Repeat 2 more times. I had my blood drawn 4 times within 3 hours. Thank goodness for 2 Entertainment Weekly magazines, a word search, and my ipod. I would've gone insane!!! (OHH! The other lady waiting with me right at 7? She was having the same tests done!!!!! She would be called in like 5 minutes after me each time.)

10:30 never looked so good. I got myself over to a diner by my house - I needed hash browns and sausage...

I should get results in about 2-3 days. I'll keep the 3 of you who read this posted.... :)