Three's Company & False Labor?

I awoke this morning around 5AM,struggling to get out of the bed. Not just because it was early and I was tired, but because it actually does take me a minute to manage to get out of the bed (NinjaMan loves to watch me try and get out of bed, so glad he enjoys laughing at me so much!).This time though, I had an awful pain in the center of my stomach, one of which I haven't felt before. The pain was strong,but it didn't feel like a contraction,my stomach was hard like a contraction,but I could tell this was a different pain. I get through my early morning tinkle trip and manage to crawl back into bed, still in pain. I noticed then that my stomach was hurting more when I laid on my back,almost like my round ligament was stretching, so I laid on my side to help ease the pain. A few hours later I woke up again having to tinkle (bladder pressure is quite annoying. Again I notice I'm in alot more pain after getting up and moving around. This time NinjaMan woke up to my "ow" and "ouches". I told him I was hurting really bad so he helped me out of bed and rubbed my back as I sat at the edge of the bed. Worried, I text Hot Mama (my Mom) explaining to her my pain and where it was located.I decide to get dressed while I await her reply,just in case it was time to go to the hospital. For some unknown reason, this is where I had the Three's Company Song stuck in my head! I have no idea why, I haven't even watched/heard anything associated with that show.No reply from Hot Mama, so I go downstairs to check my bloodsugar to see if somehow that might be the problem or a contributor to the pain. Check my bloodsugar and get a 96 result, so I knew my diabetes wasn't the cause of my pain.I then call Hot Mama to try and discuss what could possibly be wrong, no answer.
WHERE IS HOT MAMA?! I mean, she may have just went to church,but Hot Mama knows she needs to have her phone on vibrate! I tell myself that maybe she didn't feel it vibrate and I need to give her time to check the phone. So, still no answer or reply; I decide to text Dad because he always has his phone. No answer from Dad. What is going on?!! I tried not to panic,but that's hard to do when you're in pain and pregnant.
While sitting at my desk I noticed I felt gassy and I needed to go to the bathroom--could this have been my problem? ...Probably so. So I go to the bathroom, and notice I feel better afterwards. I went upstairs to tell NinjaMan I felt a little better,but I still had the pain in the center of my stomach, it just wasn't as strong. I was feeling better but the pain still lingered, it just was bearable now, but I still felt "off".
I go back downstairs and decide to put on some coffee, I was wanting coffee but not food, which is abnormal for me. I always wake up hungry, but today was different and that didn't help my worry. So i begin to make the coffee and I catch myself singing Three's Company again. What is going on with me today? I had to laugh at myself about the Three's Company thing.It's just so random, which makes it even more funny, because I'm a very random type of person. I say crazy, random,funny things all the time (not in a "that lady is crazy" kinda way,but in a "person who says funny things at random" kinda way), but this was just unrelated to anything funny. I tell NinjaMan about having that song in my head and he comments that he doesn't even know the song. --Great, I'm alone in my funny randomness!
I make my coffee, warm up a wheat bagel and start my morning ritual of checking emails and facebook while the song still plays in my head.
An hour or so goes by and still no replies from Hot Mama or Dad, I kept thinking to myself that it's so unlike them to not answer their phones or check them after an hour, something's gotta be going on.
I then decide to text my 19 yr old sister,Nina....surely she has her phone,it's her lifeline. AHA! A reply within 1 minute of sending the text! What a great, text addicted sister! She tells me that they've gone out of town to go Easter dress shopping for my 8 yr old sister. Out of town with out their phones,very unlike them. I tell Nina that I also text Dad and didn't get a reply and I needed them earlier because I thought I might've neeeded to go the Labor & Delivery. About 2 minutes later Dad calls me, he says Nina called and said I was in pain earlier and trying to get ahold of them.--Yep! Why didn't you answer your phone when I needed you! Apparently Dad didn't know Mom left her phone at home, but I still told him she was in trouble with me. Hot Mama calls about 5 minutes later and explains that she realized she left it as she was leaving the house,but thought "I always have it and nobody has ever needed me, it should be fine this one time". I reply with "the one time you don't take it with you is the one time someone needs you! Somebody is always gonna really need to reach you when you're unreachable!" "And by the way Mom, you're on restriction until you can prove to me that you're responsible."
She got a kick out of that one! :) I wasn't mad at all though, these things happen and people don't mean for them too. I'm just glad it happened when it was a "false alarm" rather than the real deal.
I told Mom and Dad to have a bag packed for this type of thing and to be prepared for that call, because with my high-risk pregnancy...you never know when Baby Ninja will decide to show up! :)
So maybe it was false labor, maybe it was just gas...really bad gas. Whatever the case, I feel much better! I just hope that when I do go into labor, I don't get the Three's Company song stuck in my head!

Update on Gestational Diabetes. 03/26/2010

I went to the doctor yesterday and he reviewed my log book. Still had high morning/fasting sugar levels, so the doctor increased my dosage to 1 pill Glyburide before bed and 1/2 pill in the mornings. I think my doctor lied to me at my last visit so that I'd be scared and behave. He told me that the next step was insulin if I couldn't get my sugars down. It worked though, because my diet sugar levels weren't bad (had one mess up with 1/4 a banana) but that was about it. So I go back in a week so we can check my sugars and see if we need to increase to Glyburide 2x/day.....hoping and praying not!
NonStressTest(NST)
Had my 2nd NST after my doc appt. BabyNinja started out moving a little bit, but then decided to not cooperate for a while. The nurse had to keep me on the test for a while, but we got a great laugh at BabyNinja and his hiccups that lasted for 20 minutes! It was so cute because I could feel the hiccups and then hear the movement from them! Just when we thought he'd stopped, he'd start hiccuping again! :) We finally got him to move long enough to check his heart rate and be sent home with a good result! Yay!! It's easing my stress to see that he is,in fact, doing ok even with the diabetes, so that is uplifting.
The main thing i worry about is that BabyNinja isn't doing ok and they have to induce labor immediately. I know NinjaMan worries when he can't come to the NST that he'll get that call from me saying "Inducing me! Get here NOW!" And I know that he wouldn't go home to get our hospital bag--he wouldn't know where to look for the stuff that needs packed anyway--but I'd like to look somewhat presentable in our first family pic! But i would want him there ASAP too!
NinjaMan has been great for moral support with all thats been going on! He knows when I'm upset when he can't even see my face! Apparently my body language isn't very subtle in a worried state because NinjaMan and my midwife have rubbed my shoulder if I ask a question that sounds slightly concerned. At least i have the support though!
Check back soon for the post concerning my checkup with my blood sugar levels! :)

Turned 21 and I celebrate with.....

WATER! Woohoo! Don't get me wrong, I love my BabyNinja so much already, but it was kind of a bummer to have to drink water. I'm not big on alcohol, that's not a big deal to me at all, but I so badly wanted a Strawberry Bull (contains Red Bull & Strawberry,non-alcoholic) from Outback last night! And I can't even have that!
Every second I am awake I fear that whatever i eat is going to make my BabyNinja become overweight at birth. Sometimes I don't want to eat because I don't want to have to count out the carbs or remind myself that I can't eat what I'm craving! I do end up eating because, well, I like food..even the diabetic kind. Lately though, I feel as though I'm eating the same things over and over; eggs in the morning, pizza made on wheat tortilla, grilled chicken or grilled pork chops and a veggie. I never feel satisfied when I'm done eating, probably because I'm a snacker rather than a 3 square meal eater.
I don't want to have complications with BabyNinja or his birth.I don't want a C-section, pre-term delivery or him to gain too much weight. I don't want him to be premature either, but boy am I sick of dealing with this diabetes, and I miss BabyNinja. I've only seen BabyNinja in ultrasounds, but I already love him with all my heart and I just want to be a Mom already! "miss" may not be the right word because I haven't met him, but I feel like I know him.He already makes me laugh at his hiccups and shuttering. I feel protective of him, my Momma Bear instinct kicked in very early, I feel like I need to protect him from me having the diabetes. Knowing that my blood sugar can be high after fasting and can harm my BabyNinja just makes me ill. I'm almost mad at my body because the first half of my pregnancy was fine and then--BAM!! Gestational Diabetes that can't be controlled with just diet!
My body/the womb is suppose to be the safest place for him in his life and even thats not safe anymore! arrgghh!!!
I'm sorry,I'm just frustrated today, this diabetes is trying to get to me and I'm letting it. *deep breaths* -ok, I CAN beat this, I just got to keep my head on straight and my heart on God and all else will fall into place.