Gestational Diabeties

[MamaPan]

you poor thing - i havent had GD (about to have my test) but know ppl who have - most of them could manage it through food only (and still had the occasional treat) and only a few needed meds. It doesnt sound like yours is severe (well I hope not!!). I guess you will have to be more careful with what you eat, monitor your food intake and sugars and mayne do some gentle exercise. Sounds like you have had a hard time with the Plac Praev as well, so I wish you all the best for the next 10 or so weeks... keep focusing on the day you meet you little one and that will get you through!

[sajemsha]

I've got GD and I've been on insulin for the past three weeks and now it's finally starting to make a difference, I have to also watch what I eat and space the meals out evenly. I've actually lost 2kg's in the last 3 weeks, I must be eating too well. If you have a sweet tooth I recomend sugar free lollies, they tast the same as the real thing and no sugar lemonaide. I'm finding that I like fruit now, that takes away the sugar cravings and I have equal in my tea, so you can get by well enough. Hopefully you won't have to do the injections, they don't hurt or anything, but you have to be so constant with taking the readings and having the injections. Tiring is the word that comes to mind, but I think I'm actually getting used to it all now.
I hope you sort it all out, take care of yourself.....

[Shontelle75]

Hi Michelle,

I did the same test last week and it came back positive for GD. I had my session at the hospital today (by the way it was the Lyell Mac - are you also booked in there, if you don't mind me asking? And are you being seen in the Birthing Centre or the Family clinic? )

Anyway, there were 3 of us at the session and we were seen by a diabetes educator, a midwife and a dietician. To cut a long story short we found out about how insulin works, why it works less well during pregnancy, how to better manage our diet, the risks/effects on the baby and how to test our own blood glucose levels (using a pin***** and a little monitor thing).

They gave us the monitor and some testing strips to get started and gave us an application to get our future tests cheaper. The whole thing took about 3 hours and was quite cruisey really.

The midwife freaked me out a bit by saying that the baby would have to go to the special care nursery and we would most likely have to be induced early and many other things I didn't really want to hear - but I have since checked it out with my regular midwifery team and the info was wrong - and in any case with you probably having a caesarean it's not really relevant to you either.

Good luck with everything, sorry if my reply was too long winded. Finally, don't worry about the pin***** test - I was worried about it and had to count 1-2-3-go in my head before I did it - but honestly it didn't hurt at all

[RhiChiChi]

The midwife freaked me out a bit by saying that the baby would have to go to the special care nursery and we would most likely have to be induced early and many other things I didn't really want to hear - but I have since checked it out with my regular midwifery team and the info was wrong - and in any case with you probably having a caesarean it's not really relevant to you either.

I was going to say, make sure you speak to your own carer about this, as my GD was diet & exercise controlled and I DO NOT need to be induced or have a caesarean.

Shonetelle has given you some great info there. There are also other threads in the Medical Conditions During Pg section of BB with chatter about GD