To have the test or to not have the test?

[Pretty Butterfly]

I will NEVER have it again!!!

I had the test with the first 3, no worries.
Didn't bother with Za and Kane....
Most of my babies have been in the larger group, but no GD.!!

Because Z and K were "larger" babies, they pushed me to have the GD test with Harmony.
The one hour one came back "borderline", and they completly scared me into the 2 hr one....which also came back borderline... (btw, here we have to fast for a few hours, in other countries they give you a proper diet for a WEEK to get an accurate result!)

so from that minute, I was a "GD" patient..... monitoring, blood tests the works.. I had to go to the diabetics clinic regulary.. I was SO peeved, even the diabetic nurse couldnt understand why I had been sent. I was given the little finger ***** thingy, had to do it 4 times a day.... It NEVER went over average, but I was still a "GD" patient......

Once in labour, an Ob was called becasue of the GD, and he kept going on about a "large" baby.. idiot.... after she was born, we couldnt leave, becasue I had GD, so we BOTH had to have testing.... broke my heart.....

I will never have it again unless I have at least ONE symptom, which I never did....nor was ever one of my ***** tests over average....

If you go ahead with the test, you have to put up with the outcome, something I wont do again unless very neccessary......

[MrsFabuloso]

Hun, I think if you feel fine and don't have any other symptoms, don't bother, or do the urine test like Traveller suggests (didn't even know that was an option!). I have done it each time, but only because I had the opportunity to be there on my own if I had to drag the kids along too, then I would likely opt out too!! If your previous tests in previous pg have been fine, I wouldn't worry. Your babies are big because your DH is so tall. DS was 4.2kg and noone ever suggested it was because of GD to me, people always blamed that on DH! And he's not as tall as your DH is either I don't think!

[~Lashes~]

I will NEVER have it again!!!
(btw, here we have to fast for a few hours, in other countries they give you a proper diet for a WEEK to get an accurate result!)

i have to have mine on the 23rd, but was told because theres no "risk" of me getting a positive, i dont have to fast, just not have sugar-loaded food (like chocolate) befor it.
i wish i was given the option to not have it!!

[AwesomeFoursome]

I have GD with this bub but I didn't notice any symptoms. I am glad I had the test, as painful as it is I would rather have it and treat it then not know that I had it and have it left untreated.

My sister had GD with her 1st bub and it wasn't picked up until a week before bub was born and she was almost 11lb, she also had it with her last bub and it was picked up n treated and that bub was almost 8lb. So a big difference in size.

I personally wouldn't feel comfortable not having the test. If you don't want the test and your midwife is happy with that its up to you. I just thought I would share from my POV.

[sasha]

Because my dad was diagnosed with diabetes last year, and I'm over 30, I now have been advised to do the GTT (ie fast overnight and go in for the long test) which I'm feeling a bit peeved about. I ummed and ahhed about it last time, and what irks me this time is that I'm very fit, eating better than I did with the first two, weighing MUCH less than I did with the first two, and they were very average weights (can't remember kg but 7lbs with S and 7 lbs 3?4? oz with T). Being over 30 and the family history are the only two symptoms.

On the other hand, talking to Dad about his diabetes and knowing the risks of having it, I'm reluctant to avoid taking the test. I feel like it's a bit of a catch-22.

I'm also really bad at going without food at the best of times... all I can say is someone had better be there with a bacon sandwich straight afterwards, otherwise I will cry, throw up, get incredibly angry, or all of the above.

Hmph. At least I'm not due to take it until after Christmas. That reminds me I have to book it tomorrow. It's making me annoyed just thinking about it now.

[meow]

I had the test first time, didn't have GD and had a 4.3kg baby.

Didn't have the test second time and had a 4.7kg baby. I don't believe I had GD second time either- lo & behold it's actually possible to just healthily make "big" babies!

From the reading I did I don't hold much faith in the test, nor the idea of GD as a 'condition'.

[M D]

What are the indicators/symptoms onemmight have for Gd??

[Arimeh]

What are the indicators/symptoms onemmight have for Gd??

This is what I would like to know too.

Yowie - I see what you are saying I think that the midwife would be able to feel if the baby was getting extremely big though - for its gestation? That's what I figured anyway, I'm probably wrong!! lol