I think you should consider renaming peanut and calling him/her coconut...
My SIL is TINY. She's Phillipino. My brother is 1.95m (sorry, not up with feet and inches). My mum is 1.72m, Dad is 1.83m, but SIL is 1.50m. Even with high heels she barely reaches his shoulder. Her son was 3.2kg, so quite big for her size. Unfortunately I can't report about a trouble free natural birth here, he ended up pushing onto her kidneys and they were impaired. The noticed at 38 weeks. She had a healthy baby boy a couple of day later, born through the sunroof (they were worried she wasn't strong enough for an induced labour, due to the impaired kidney function).
But, her mother had 4 children, all over 3kg, all born naturally, no drugs or intervention. Her father was just as tiny as the rest of them, so it seems that big babies run in her family and are not necessarily caused by my family's size.
Nt sure why I'm telling, you... just found it interesting.
Just wanted to say that although the risk factors outline who may be more prone to GD, these are not always the case. I fit absolutely none of the risk factors and I got GD. I've always been active and a healthy eater, and within my recommended BMI, if not on the low side and I still got GD. Alot of it has to do with how your body and placenta deals with the extra work load from baby.
I considered not having the GD test as I was sick of tests (and had been through CVS) and because I didn't fit any of the risk factors, but as it goes I had GD so I was glad it was picked up..
It's an easy test and takes an hour to do so I would say best to rule it out...
Independent research has never managed to prove that screening for all women for GD is helpful. An Australian collaboration of researchers have recently produced this guideline for the GD test:
I *passed* the GD test (GTT - the long one) and yet I still have GD. My fasting sugars are still high and my levels through the day can be up depending on what I eat. My endocrinologist said she wouldn't have tested me (and saved me two lots of 3 hour torture sessions!!) as I fit many of the risk factors and instead would have had me monitor my BSL's as the pregnancy progressed. She believes that the stress test aspect of the GTT does not identify all women with GD and regular monitoring would provide a better level of evaluation for those with the risk factors. She doesn't care what your body can do when loaded and stressed with a slog of sugar, she wants to know what you are doing on a day to day basis which is what the baby is getting.
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