Niamh - Congratulations on your babygirl! she's adorable!!!
How big was she? Everything turned out well, I hope.
For me, I just went to my doctor at the 6weeks checkup and he gave me forms for a 2hr GTT that I need to do in 3 months.
I think you should just make your 6weeks check up with your Dr. They'll either give you the stuff for your GTT or tell you whatelse to do.
Myson - Fingers crossed you don't have to be a regular here in the GD section.
GOod luck with your diet and I really hope GD stays away from you and you're having a H&H pg!
Niamh - I was asked to take my levels on day four. If the levels were ok (same sort of limits as GD) then to just make my 6 week check where dr will give me GTT form to do (but I think I'm having mine between 6 and 8 weeks). If the levels were high then I had to make an app with dr asap.
Luckily mine were ok. I have my 6 week check monday week.
Thanks girls think ill make an appointment with GP and see what he says never had any symptoms with my last pregnancy so was a bit worried
Tennykins she was 8lbs 8 it all went well in the end they induced me at 39 weeks and panicked a bit over her head being high so got me ready for a c section and broke my waters and had me ready to go for sction in case the cord came down it didnt so I was able to have her my self no problems even after a spinal and epidural labour was 3 hours took me 20 minutes to push her out i was very happy with that, think I was lucky she was my 4th and not first with those worries though LOL
Very interesting to hear about your baby sizes! Petals & Becci, thanks for the info re induction and what you went through. I thought what you said re the impact of insulin on the placenta was really interesting - I hadn't heard that before. The more I look into it, the more the link between induction/GD etc seems to be making sense - and everyone is saying basically the same things - that they don't want big babies if possible due to shoulder distocia risk, plus stillbirth risk does increase after 40 weeks in GD patients, plus impact of insulin etc. I was chatting to a friend who is an obs (interstate) tonight, and she was saying all the same things as my obs, so that was good.
So I figure i'm gonna do everything I can do bring on labour. Once we agree on an induction date, I'll spend the half week before that doing everything I can and just see how we go (I've got some acupuncture booked in this week). I also saw my endo who said don't do your insulin on the day of induction and no need to test BSL's at all after birth (which surprised me). Then just do GTT about 6 weeks after as per usual, which will be organised through obs. And he hopes never to see me again - such a mutual feeling, hehe! He also seemed surprised that i haven't been having any fetal monitoring at the hosp. Did anyone else have that? I figure it means that the obs thinks bubby is doing just fine.
I'm also a teensy bit nervous because my levels have been REALLY good, and I know I've been slacking off a bit with my eating. Had DH's b'day so had chocolate cake (for supper) and bits of choc here & there... where my levels were averaging 6 - 7, I'm now averaging 5's. And now I find I can easily manage two pieces of seedy bread for lunch, and potato in reasonable amounts as well. Is this a bad thing? Does it mean the placenta isn't working as well? Or would that cause a much bigger change in levels if it wasn't working well? Or could the BSL's just be better cos I'm not working now and am probably more relaxed?
katones - congrats on the great levels!
Niamh - congrats on your gorgeous girl, she's beautiful! Good luck with feeling ok, and I think definitely worth following up with your doc if you're unsure. Great to hear the birth went well too
Tenny - hope that gorgeous boy is still going really well - really great to hear.
Myson - all the best with keeping the GD away. I haven't anything extra to add, I think the other ladies have already given you great advice.
Belfie - great to see your levels are 'leveling' themselves out. I wouldn't stress about it, to me it menas that you have things under control. I would assume that if there was a problem with the placenta yourt levels would be higher?
Re: testing bsls post birth. I was told so many different things from many people in the same hospital. It was rather confusing. So I decided to follow what the dr there told me to do. That was no bsls until day 4, if ok, wait to 6 week check. Others wanted me to keep testing for 4 days post birth. Others not at all until 6 weeks. But I was curious to see what they were so took my levels on day 4. I have also taken them a couple of times since, after certain bad foods just for interests sake.
Wow! Just looked at your ticker, if your going to be induced it would be in about a weeks time. How exciting!
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