DD1 being 4.1kg means I am high risk.

kazzo, they can't do it that early and get a reliable result - that's why it's done at the time it's usually done because it doesn't tend to appear until 20-24wks. I'm certain I've read something about it. Basically your medwife is blowing hot air up your backside trying to get you to do something that is completely and utterly UNnecessary! My first baby was a fraction bigger than your DD1 and NEVER was I told that it was a risk factor for GD for subsequent pregnancies. I would politely refuse and say you would prefer to wait until the normal time frame to have the test and you can make a decision then. I''m assuming that if you tested positive for it that there would then be a hell of a lot of other constraints put on you and the later you have to deal with that **** the better!

I saw in the news the other week that my hospital is in the top 3 for women with GD. Maybe that is why they are trying to test women early?

I would be factoring in to that if they are a 'feeder' hospital for smaller hospitals to send their supposedly high risk pregnancies, such as GD. If a hospital handles cases like that, where a woman is forced to go there because she has something that makes her high risk, then their statistics are going to be artificially inflated. On paper, the hospital I always went to looks fantastic in terms of high risk statistics because they don't let you birth there. So their c/s rate is low overall, especially emergency c/s's. You can't go there to birth if you have GD either - you are forced on to the larger base hospital.

As a side question...how come you have to diet 3 days prior to the 75mg test?

I have done the test twice as I did have GD, but I never had to diet before hand?

I have zero idea, I was given a sheet with a list of foods and how many of these I should eat each day. Then I was to fast from midnight the day of the test.

Trillian. It is a feeder hospital for one small hospital around here but in most cases people will get sent to the next big hospital which is only 25 minutes down the road.

How odd! I had to fast, but no diet!

Well at least mw2 was more understanding!