Archive for November, 2009

Serenade for Baby

I recently discovered, completely by accident, that my unborn baby likes classical piano music.
I tutor children in English here in China a few times a week and last week when I arrived at one of my students’ homes, I was a little early. She was finishing up her piano practice before English class and invited [...]

Gestational Diabetes

So, after many blood tests and drinking unpleasant glucose solutions, I’ve been diagnosed with mild gestational diabetes. It’s not very severe in my case- of my four tests during the multi-hour screen, two were a little high, which is the minimal diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes.
This condition is not really rare, but it does require [...]