Melanie, this article is about Gestational Diabetes and not your standard Diabetes. As a very well respected and awarded midwife said:
"The best way for those who disagree is to find the definitive studies that address all of Henci’s points. If is such an important issue, those studies would be available for us all to read. There is harm being done to mothers and babies by the definition of Gestational diabetes."
And another midwife:
"There seems to be a real misconception even amongst obstetricians that gestational diabetes has the same risks as pre-existing diabetes. A couple of years ago I did a bit of research on it for my masters and could find no evidence that this was so. And according to cochrane (independant study review database) the OGT test is not reproducible 50-70% of the time."
Those with that knowledge choose not to have the OGTT in pregnancy because there are no proven improved outcomes for mums or babies with diagnosed and 'treated' GD.
Henci writes amazing stuff, she is a scholar and very well educated, choosing to cover topics effecting birth and as you can see, she has all her references which can be checked below her article. She is very well researched and writes some GREAT, highly successful books, for example, Obstetric Myths vs Research Realities.
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