Steps to covering up your failure | Steps to Wander | Part 7

[HashtagBlessed]

Kelsey is a moron and it's unfortunate that there are women who were affected by their video about the gestational diabetes screening. Some people in the Instagram comments are even saying they refused the test because of it! Or saying that because they weren't overweight they couldn't have gestational diabetes. Good grief.

Bottom line: don't take any advice from these two. She's hardly a healthy role model and she reveals herself time and time again to be completely ignorant. I'm sure the glucose drink has the same perservatives and artificial dyes as her regular junk food diet, and I'm sure that drinking 50 mg of sugar from apple juice or corn syrup has similar negative (temporary) side effects, like mild headache and nausea. I don't see how one is healthier than the other. Sugar is sugar and it's processed the same by your body. If she prefers the taste of one, okay, whatever floats your boat. But it's unfortunate that she's scarring people.

Unrelated, but I guarantee that if she was seeing an OB, she or he would be concerned by her weight gain and how big that baby is going to be. Her 27 week bump photo looks bigger than my 34 week one. There's no way she's on target for someone her height and her size pre-pregnancy.

I don't think I've ever seen a YouTuber upload a commercial in lieu of their daily vlog (when they only do 3 a week!). That was clearly a cash grab and they are sinking their channel fast by going for the easy cash now at the expense of their analytics. No one wants to watch ads and their numbers are dropping fast. Sponsors that pay well aren't going to want to work with them, because the views aren't there and there's no value proposition.

[rosie_dalia]

I didn't even bother watching the ad. What's the point?? Didn't they do something similar just a few weeks ago?? Even their regular videos are getting SOOOOOO boring. During Kelsey's last pregnancy they were still sort of doing interesting things at the beach and in Portland.

I guess they really don't even leave the house anymore...because of June?? Didn't they say they don't enjoy taking her places?? I wonder if she's a terror when the camera is off.

Seriously, how are they going to deal with two??? I think Kelsey is going to have a mental breakdown.

[lmmomSD]

"I'm not overweight so I can't have gestational diabetes"? People are actually saying that?
Savannah from Sav and Cole is a tiny thing, and she had it. Dummy was actually crying over having to eat vegetables.
People are such a morons. And she needs to get off her platform if she is actually freaking women out about the GTT.

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[justmeelinex]

Click bait. Seriously she is so overreacting. Drinking apple juice is not like you’re gonna die or something. She definitely gained a LOT. Look at her arms when she’s at her midwife. First time I notice she gained so much.

I just can’t with those 2. They literally don’t have a life or any goals in life.

[jmoysa]

Their life is trying to keep up the YouTube creator facade. He’s buying views (overnight added 1000 on their ad vlog). It’s all they’ve got.
Are they on the family houseboat trip now? Sure he’s working for his dad...otherwise how’d he get time off at an actual new job?


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[rosie_dalia]

I agree with others that Kelsey is just really dumb or maybe has a learning disability. She really lacks in smarts or any sort of interests. What happened to her "business"?

I'm sort of giving up on watching them. They are boring AF and both seem to have the attitude they "deserve" tons of praise and views and money, but they are just boring and stupid.

[rosie_dalia]

Kelsey's weight is concerning. She just looks SOOOO massively bloated...and she has three more months? Maybe she should see a doctor and not just a midwife???

[aral12]

I’m so confused. Is how she did the GTT standard in America?

I’m the same gestation as Kelsey and am in my doctors waiting room as I type this, doing it for the second time haha. In Australia, we have to fast overnight including water (can have small sips if necessary) show up and have our blood drawn, drink the standard drink in 10 minutes maximum, have our blood drawn after 1 hour and then our blood drawn again after another hour. That’s the basic one for everyone who is a low level risk.

You can refuse the test (don’t know why you would when GD can be so harmful to baby and you) but you definitely can’t just drink apple juice or something of your own choosing. I have HG and can’t take my usual medications today (due to them containing small amounts of sugar) and I’m still doing it, sure I’ll be in bed for the rest of the day vomiting but at least I’ll have an accurate reading!

If hers comes back abnormal will they make her do it again properly or just diagnose her from what she’s done?


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[lmmomSD]

Kelsey's weight is concerning. She just looks SOOOO massively bloated...and she has three more months? Maybe she should see a doctor and not just a midwife???

Is she going to a certified nurse midwife, or some country midwife who isn't certified? Because I had a midwife through the Navy with my son, and she took great care of me and my baby.
Aral, so sorry you have HG! I had it with my son. Ick.
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[justmeelinex]

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[MommaLindsey2]

I’m so confused. Is how she did the GTT standard in America?

I’m the same gestation as Kelsey and am in my doctors waiting room as I type this, doing it for the second time haha. In Australia, we have to fast overnight including water (can have small sips if necessary) show up and have our blood drawn, drink the standard drink in 10 minutes maximum, have our blood drawn after 1 hour and then our blood drawn again after another hour. That’s the basic one for everyone who is a low level risk.

You can refuse the test (don’t know why you would when GD can be so harmful to baby and you) but you definitely can’t just drink apple juice or something of your own choosing. I have HG and can’t take my usual medications today (due to them containing small amounts of sugar) and I’m still doing it, sure I’ll be in bed for the rest of the day vomiting but at least I’ll have an accurate reading!

If hers comes back abnormal will they make her do it again properly or just diagnose her from what she’s done?


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Your lucky as hell for being able to do the test with hd! I puked within the first 45 minutes and puked when i tried to retake it a different day so my doctor took pity and told me not to take it...in America if it comes back abnormal like hers she will need to come in for a 3 hour screening.


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[Edenberry]

I honestly think she just hates the fasting part. If it makes her uncomfortable/hungry/whatever...she'll try and get out of it by complaining. NEWSFLASH DEAR: Pregnancy is uncomfortable. Period. We've all been there and dealt with it as best we can but to cry and cry and whine and get out of a relatively simple test (I'd drink every Glucola under the sun if it meant never having my cervix checked again) is pathetic. You just have to do it and get through it like everybody else.

Like many of you, I threw up my entire 2nd pregnancy. It's inconvenient and not fun but it was what it was and I dealt with it. I didn't complain every freaking day about my pregnancy. I was grateful for the great days and accepted the rough ones as my new normal for a few months. It's not like a life sentence. You're growing a baby!! That's hard work for both of you. Take care of yourself, eat better, take care of these emotional episodes now because it will consume you after the baby is born.

Sorry...I'm PMSing today and I have no patience for her pity party.

[wendigo]

Did I hear wrong or did Kelsey refer to the drink as “glaucoma”? LOL It’s at 2:39


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[aral12]

I’m so confused. Is how she did the GTT standard in America?

I’m the same gestation as Kelsey and am in my doctors waiting room as I type this, doing it for the second time haha. In Australia, we have to fast overnight including water (can have small sips if necessary) show up and have our blood drawn, drink the standard drink in 10 minutes maximum, have our blood drawn after 1 hour and then our blood drawn again after another hour. That’s the basic one for everyone who is a low level risk.

You can refuse the test (don’t know why you would when GD can be so harmful to baby and you) but you definitely can’t just drink apple juice or something of your own choosing. I have HG and can’t take my usual medications today (due to them containing small amounts of sugar) and I’m still doing it, sure I’ll be in bed for the rest of the day vomiting but at least I’ll have an accurate reading!

If hers comes back abnormal will they make her do it again properly or just diagnose her from what she’s done?


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Your lucky as hell for being able to do the test with hd! I puked within the first 45 minutes and puked when i tried to retake it a different day so my doctor took pity and told me not to take it...in America if it comes back abnormal like hers she will need to come in for a 3 hour screening.


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They ended up letting me take 2 of my medications (they found sugar free options!!!) but I couldn’t take zofran which is my main life saver. Argh. It was awful but I got through it... super dizzy and nauseous the entire time but the lady was lovely and let me lay down in a spare test room which was amazing. I got to my final blood test and as she was filling out my attendance cert for work I threw up all over myself and her oh well, at least I survived.


When I actually looked at the bottle today I realised ours is 75g of sugar but I swear when she was bitching about the other test she did she said it was 50g, again is that just an American thing?


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[HashtagBlessed]

Watching them is like watching two teenagers pretending to be adults.

I think different practices do it differently. I only had to do a one-hour screening. Drink the stuff that tastes like concentrated orange soda (50 mg of sugar dissolved in about 250 ml of water) in a certain time frame. Wait an hour. Get your blood drawn. If your levels are elevated, you take the longer glucose tolerance test to confirm the diagnosis. I wasn’t told to fast for the one hour screening, but I had an appointment first thing in the morning and ended up not eating anything. Milking this for views is just another thing in a long list of shit they will exploit and blow out of proportion to try to appear interesting.

I still can’t believe the midwife offered her the option of fasting over night and then getting her blood drawn without ingesting any glucose. How in the world can a gestational diabetes screening accurately screen for diabetes when you don’t ingest anything? I really question what kind of care provider she is seeing. Even Kelsey the village idiot thought that sounded suspect and chose the apple juice option. And the midwife told her she was “fine” and “didn’t have it” according to Corbin before she even took the screening? Doesn’t sound like this midwife knows how gestational diabetes works. For most women, it doesn't cause noticeable signs or symptoms and half of women who have it have no risk factors. I mean, it’s not super common, only about 3-5% of all pregnant women are diagnosed, but it’s still an odd thing to tell a patient.

I noticed when they were filming in the waiting room that there was literature on the table about WIC, I wonder if she’s going to some sort of free clinic or somewhere that accepts Medicaid. They're so invested in portraying this financially affluent, YouTube lifestyle that they just can't live up to because no one in that house has a decent job and YouTube certainly isn't bringing in the big bucks.

[lmmomSD]

I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if they were on WIC for June. And for the new baby when he comes.

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[webbygurl626]

I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if they were on WIC for June. And for the new baby when he comes.

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I doubt it if they can afford a house in the north end, even a crappy house their is no way they would qualify for wic!


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[lmmomSD]

I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if they were on WIC for June. And for the new baby when he comes.

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I doubt it if they can afford a house in the north end, even a crappy house their is no way they would qualify for wic!


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That's true. Forgot about the house.
But what about if his parents paid for it?

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[crew96]

Watching them is like watching two teenagers pretending to be adults.

I think different practices do it differently. I only had to do a one-hour screening. Drink the stuff that tastes like concentrated orange soda (50 mg of sugar dissolved in about 250 ml of water) in a certain time frame. Wait an hour. Get your blood drawn. If your levels are elevated, you take the longer glucose tolerance test to confirm the diagnosis. I wasn’t told to fast for the one hour screening, but I had an appointment first thing in the morning and ended up not eating anything. Milking this for views is just another thing in a long list of shit they will exploit and blow out of proportion to try to appear interesting.

I still can’t believe the midwife offered her the option of fasting over night and then getting her blood drawn without ingesting any glucose. How in the world can a gestational diabetes screening accurately screen for diabetes when you don’t ingest anything? I really question what kind of care provider she is seeing. Even Kelsey the village idiot thought that sounded suspect and chose the apple juice option. And the midwife told her she was “fine” and “didn’t have it” according to Corbin before she even took the screening? Doesn’t sound like this midwife knows how gestational diabetes works. For most women, it doesn't cause noticeable signs or symptoms and half of women who have it have no risk factors. I mean, it’s not super common, only about 3-5% of all pregnant women are diagnosed, but it’s still an odd thing to tell a patient.

I noticed when they were filming in the waiting room that there was literature on the table about WIC, I wonder if she’s going to some sort of free clinic or somewhere that accepts Medicaid. They're so invested in portraying this financially affluent, YouTube lifestyle that they just can't live up to because no one in that house has a decent job and YouTube certainly isn't bringing in the big bucks.

Yeah...I mean I took mine this pregnancy at 1:15pm (just after lunch!) and passed so the whole fasting thing is odd to me. She works herself up over the dumbest stuff.


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[rosie_dalia]

I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if they were on WIC for June. And for the new baby when he comes.

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I doubt it if they can afford a house in the north end, even a crappy house their is no way they would qualify for wic!


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That's true. Forgot about the house.
But what about if his parents paid for it?

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I don't think owning a house disqualifies people from WIC. I worked with a guy once and his wife was a SAHM of three and they qualified for WIC. I just Googled it and they'd qualify as a family of 4 (pregnant women count as two people) if they make $3,970 or less a month! That's $47,638 a year. I would guess they make less than that.

Or...they could have applied when they were making less than the max. income and just never reported making more. I totally think they've also been on food stamps in the past as well.

https://www.cdhd.idaho.gov/wic-eligibility.php