The Life of a Pregnant Woman

Wednesday, July 16

This summer it is imperative that I keep up with my exercise. Even though the baby is growing, I don’t want the rest of me to grow out of control along with her. So I try to walk every day and go to the high school to swim once or twice a week. Last night was a pool night. Westmont High School is in walking distance, so I got Mark to take a break from his studies to walk me over to the pool for an evening swim. I used to be able to swim for 2 to 2 ½ hours and do about 7,000 to 9,000 yards, but now I am much slower. I get in about 1,000 yards (40 laps) and do 10 minutes of deep water kicking before I am totally dog tired. It is getting to the point where I am going to half to start using the ladder to get out of the water. Pulling my awkward body up on the side of the deck is becoming humorous. At least the little old ladies in the water aerobics class get a kick out of me.

Yesterday I also made the most amazing cherry pie. I ventured out to one of the local farmers’ markets and bought some fresh cherries because I saw a good looking recipe on the cover of my latest Cooking Light magazine. Plus, I just love cherry pie. I never made a fresh cherry pie before and it proved to be quite time consuming. Just pitting six cups of cherries took almost an hour to do. But man was it ever worth it!! Yum, yum, yummy.

This morning, after taking Mark to the train station, I went to get my gestational diabetes test done. This is an hour long test where you can’t eat anything after 8 p.m. the night before or anytime the morning of the test. They make you drink a sugary sweet mixture and wait one hour before drawing three vials of blood. Hopefully I passed.