GD, not gaining weight, increasing carbs, insulin... someone help me understand this!

[sloane]

I'm on my phone so this will be brief but I don't,think,you should be looking at all carbs being the same - so add some back in but make them carbs that are low/er gi - so grainy bread, basmati or doongara rice etc.

I'm not sure why the educator said it was insulin that causes a big baby - I don't know too much about that. unless it's just an indicator that the bsl hadn't been able to be controlled through diet and the baby had been getting lots of sugar? the biggest concern with uncontrolled gd is that the baby's bsl drop substantially when they're born because they have been getting too much sugar. they usually test the baby's bsl after they're born and they expect x number of readings over a certain point (hospitals seem to differ - mine differed between having ds and dd) but I was on insulin both times and dd's readings were good. some hospitals have a policy of scn when you're on insulin others it's only if it's over a certain amount of insulin.

eta, I'm not sure why the educator said that people with gd are just eating too much. the endo explained it to me that you can eat the 'perfect' diet and your bsl will still rise because of the pg hormones etc. that would be backed up by studies that show only 50% of ppl who get gd fit the high risk groups (older, overweight, ethnicity and so on)