I am still waiting on the results from my 3 hour glucose test. It seemed like they got the results from the 1 hour test overnight. They have this new thing at Clarissa's office where you can check your own lab results online and I have been a little obsessive with it! The size ultrasound went well. Little girl measured on time almost to the day - basically 26 1/2 weeks (last week) - and a little over 2lbs! For the size, they measure the head and the femur. Our kids seem to have big heads, so my suspicion is that she may be a little smaller than that, but that would be about the same as our other girls, neither of whom were very big newborns.
Next week, Caleb is taking a standardized test. We signed up with a group from our co-op to do an online review. After I went through the sample test, I saw that some of the ways the questions are worded are totally unlike anything he has experience with, so we tried to go over those things. In the end, I am not concerned about his score. I'd like for him to score in the average range. I don't think he will score in the above-average range - it just isn't that important to him. He didn't do well last year, but after the test he admitted to me that on some sections, he didn't want to do them, so he just guessed. I've tried to balance him needing to take the test seriously with not worrying that his future balances on it. It is easy to see how school administrations can get anxious over testing when so much does weigh on it! At least for us, if he does poorly, we can get a teacher evaluation. In Florida, homeschoolers are required to "show progress" and he has definitely done that.
Standardized testing seems to me a very poor way to show progress (or lack of progress) - if a child aces the 1st grade test and does only average on the 2nd grade test are they not progressing? What if they are just having a bad day?
The glucose test evidently isn't as unreliable. The longer you are pregnant, the more insulin your body needs to produce and if your body isn't doing it, it just isn't doing it. I was feeling kind of bummed about failing the 1 hour, but if it is something I need to address, I want to address it.
