ashknowsbest
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cassie - I'm sorry to hear you failed your GD test. It totally sucks, I've been there. Its been about 3 weeks since I got my diagnosis and I'm feeling a little bit better about it but it definitely puts a damper on things for a while. Anyways, a little interesting piece of information. Someone told me that their dietician actually mentioned that a majority of her patients who went through IVF have GD so there may be a correlation there. Not sure that's an consolation but I thought it was really interesting either way.
Clan - I'm on a low carb diet. The babies still need carbs for growth/energy so it's really important to still eat them but they want multi-grain/whole grain carbs, not white carbs. I'm also on a limitation for carbs so ... for breakfast I'm allowed 30g of carbs (and they want me to come as close as possible to that), 45g for lunch and dinner, and 3 snacks (one in between breakfast and lunch, one in between lunch and dinner, and one after dinner) and those snacks can be between 15-30g. It is SUCH a pain to monitor and measure out everything but since I started on the diet my numbers have been great. Every once in a while I will get a little bit higher of a result but the dietician said there is variance based on which finger you use (which I found to be true! For fun I took it twice one morning and on one finger I got a completely different number than I did on another finger). The other thing they want me to do is mix foods. So, don't eat all sugar, if you're going to have a banana or fruit they want you to mix in high fiber items, carbs, or protein (this way your body metabolizes the sugar more slowly avoiding a sugar spike!)
As much of a pain as all of it has become it has also been extremely informative. I used to sit down and just have a fruit salad and now I realize even without GD that's really not the greatest decision. Anyways, hope this helps! Oh and one more thing, about your numbers, I know each doctor is different and I'm not saying your doctor is wrong but my dietician and OB want my numbers (and everyone else who attended the GD class) to be under 130 1 hour after eating. Anyways, best of luck!
wish - I don't want to make assumptions but I have to say that if she had a 10 lb baby maybe she didn't manage her blood sugar well enough? Just a thought. I know that when I took my GD class they actually told us that as long as your GD is under control you're not likely to have a larger than average baby (unless they run in your family of course).
The only things I was told about in my GD class that can happen to children born when their mothers have GD is heavy weight, they could experience birth injuries (just from being so big and having to make it through the birthing canal), low blood sugar at birth (they fix this and monitor with sugar water until their bodies take over), and jaundice (which they can get even without GD). I think the scariest thing is when it's not managed well. I'm sure your baby boy will be fine and yes anything over 34 weeks you can get would be amazing!
Clan - I'm on a low carb diet. The babies still need carbs for growth/energy so it's really important to still eat them but they want multi-grain/whole grain carbs, not white carbs. I'm also on a limitation for carbs so ... for breakfast I'm allowed 30g of carbs (and they want me to come as close as possible to that), 45g for lunch and dinner, and 3 snacks (one in between breakfast and lunch, one in between lunch and dinner, and one after dinner) and those snacks can be between 15-30g. It is SUCH a pain to monitor and measure out everything but since I started on the diet my numbers have been great. Every once in a while I will get a little bit higher of a result but the dietician said there is variance based on which finger you use (which I found to be true! For fun I took it twice one morning and on one finger I got a completely different number than I did on another finger). The other thing they want me to do is mix foods. So, don't eat all sugar, if you're going to have a banana or fruit they want you to mix in high fiber items, carbs, or protein (this way your body metabolizes the sugar more slowly avoiding a sugar spike!)
As much of a pain as all of it has become it has also been extremely informative. I used to sit down and just have a fruit salad and now I realize even without GD that's really not the greatest decision. Anyways, hope this helps! Oh and one more thing, about your numbers, I know each doctor is different and I'm not saying your doctor is wrong but my dietician and OB want my numbers (and everyone else who attended the GD class) to be under 130 1 hour after eating. Anyways, best of luck!
wish - I don't want to make assumptions but I have to say that if she had a 10 lb baby maybe she didn't manage her blood sugar well enough? Just a thought. I know that when I took my GD class they actually told us that as long as your GD is under control you're not likely to have a larger than average baby (unless they run in your family of course).
The only things I was told about in my GD class that can happen to children born when their mothers have GD is heavy weight, they could experience birth injuries (just from being so big and having to make it through the birthing canal), low blood sugar at birth (they fix this and monitor with sugar water until their bodies take over), and jaundice (which they can get even without GD). I think the scariest thing is when it's not managed well. I'm sure your baby boy will be fine and yes anything over 34 weeks you can get would be amazing!
Glad your appointment went well other than the weight gain and BP - hope that they won't be anything serious to worry about though. I know what you mean, counting my appoinment on Thursday, I only have 3 left as well (1 at 29-30 weeks on Thursday, 1 at 36 weeks on September 15th and the last one at 39 weeks on October 6th which is 3 days before my EDD
So the torture has been spread out. It makes it hard to sleep afterwards as while I'm trying to fall asleep and every time I have to get up and pee during the night, it's like I can see the monster. So silly (especially for a 37 year old woman!) but typical reaction for me to seeing a horror film/series
The midwife feels that if baby is head down, then it means that my placenta has most likely moved up so that's good
Got a new day for that breastfeeding class which is also good, don't want to miss that as I'm planning on breastfeeding. The bad news was I got another temp, a vacation temp
So only 2 more appointments and at this point, it doesn't matter much anymore
