Gestational Diabetes General Chatter #5

[belfie]

Belfie you might find that youare on the thome stretch with the insulin doses.

Oooh Melbel, that's music to my ears - fingers crossed hey! As for the scans, I've heard they can be out, which is why I'm so curious. With me, they're also worried cos DH is 6"4' and I'm only 5"2'. So I know my obs is concerned that bubba might be just genetically big so to speak.

and Tennykins... SNAP! I'm a fraternal twin too! Are you the older or younger? I was younger by 10 mins (and a very healthy breech 7lb to boot! Bro was 8lb - what a lotta baby!)

As for relaxing... did I mention that I LOVE mat leave! This is seriously the best... I am so enjoying it.

[angelraelz]

hiya

wow ok a few twins here

I was going to do individual names but thought i would do one post instead.

With Isaac i was diganosed with GD at 24 weeks then two weeks later i was on Insulin. It climbed steady all the way through. I started of on prophane at night before bed. If i got a high level then i would increase it by 1 unit. A week later i had to have it morning and night.

Here is an example of my levels
18 units of prophane before bed
5.7 before breakfast
6.3 after breakfast
6.2 after lunch
6.6 after dinner

then that night i had 20 units of prophane before bed and in the morning 10 units. A month later i was up to 54 units before breakfast and 48 before bed - at some stage i was told to start increasing by 2 units instead of 1. Thats when they changed me to novorapid. Starting level of 18 units before breakfast, lunch and dinner then 48 prophane before bed.

They climbed until i was about 36 weeks where i was on 22 before breakfast, 20 before lunch and 26 before dinner of novorapid and 82 of prophane.

I think it depends on your hospital though because mine was really strict. My fasting had to be below 5.5 and 2 hours after meals below 6.5 - Every body is different though and just because i went down this path doesn't mean you will. For this pregnancy i am a little concerned about it happening all over again but then i have found out that every pregnancy is different and my body might react better this time around. Who knows.

After having Isaac the same thing happened where he got a good glucose reading and i breastfeeding him and then the next one went down lower etc. They said they had to take him to Special Care and he was put on a drip etc. My husband and my sister in law Chareen went with him. While my other sister in law Maryleen stayed with me while i showered etc. What kept me from worry to much was Maryleen as she chatted away with me through the shower door while i showered. She was there to keep an eye on me because i was still very dizzy but really needed a shower.

They take the blood from the heel of the babies foot. I didn't know this when Isaac went into Special Care. He stayed in special care for 3 days and i think the hardest bit was me being in a room on my own without him. I went to Special Care often and just sat there with him. he never actually roomed in with me at all. When they realised him from Special Care we were sent home. Then he developed Jaundice and ended up back in special Care in a hospital closer to my house. He was on a feeding tube and under lights for 3 days. Today at 13mths he is doing great and you wouldn't even know he was in special care or anything.

I am in no way trying to scare you or upset you with my story. This time around for me i am doing more reasearch and learning about different things because i want to be more prepared. I feel i have to be being as i am pregnant with twins.

I would suggest that go down to Special Care - have a chat to the nurses and set up a time where you can be shown around Special Care. I was shown around and in the long run i think that helped.

With the twins they say they are faternal but now days the research says that even thought they are in two seperate sacks and with seperate placentas there is a chance that they could be identical. I think the stats are 30% of identical twins are di/di (seperate sacks and placentas) which isn't really that much. So they are more likely to be faternal.

I go for my 3 hour GTT this saturday and i have my u/s to see the sexes on the 12th i will be 17weeks. And my next ob appointment is the 16th of sept.

With the GD any questions ask away. Sorry i didn't plan for this to be a novel. Sorry about that.

Angel

[Jewel]

Belfie - OMG! I didn't know you were a twin too. Fancy that! Wow. I'm the older twin. I am 12mins old. We were born 12weeks early, so we were realyl really tinyyyyy. I forget how much I weighed. I say my sister kicked me out, cause she was breech. Lol.
I'm 5'2 aswell, and my DP is 6'5 and the boys weights were...
DS1 - born 39wks - 7lb 15oz.
DS2 - born 39wks2days - 8lb 9oz.
So we make decent size babies aswell. Thankfully not too massive though
My OB was saying yesterday they were fairly big babies and here I was thinking they were like average size. lol.
Worrying about the size of the bubba is always in your mind, aye. I know it was for me.

Angel - Wow. I'm glad everything is fine with your DS now. Thanks for sharing your story.
Good luck with your GTT on saturday. How exciting about your scan. Are you excited to see the bubbas and their genders??


Got my forms for my 2hr GTT test yesterday. I don't have to do it until early december, so in 3 months a round about.

When they tested Hayden's BSLs they took him away into the nursery which was next door to my room, so it was no biggie.