GD support thread

[AmeliePoulain]

I have had my postnatal GTT today.

Starving you for 12 hours when you have to push a double buggy for a mile to the doctors and are nursing a baby should be illigal!

I am not overly confident that the 'GD' has gone. I have got that woozy sugar high feeling now

 

[CelticNiamh]

I have had my postnatal GTT today.

Starving you for 12 hours when you have to push a double buggy for a mile to the doctors and are nursing a baby should be illigal!

I am not overly confident that the 'GD' has gone. I have got that woozy sugar high feeling now

FX it is gone!! oh and I agree it should not be allowed

 

[nickynora]

Well I'm back from seeing the dietician and nurse - neither are happy with my post breakfast numbers

They've both said I should be able to eat more than 1 weetabix for breakfast and certainly shouldn't get an 8.6 after 1 shredded wheat - esp as my numbers start off ok.

So I've been put on Metformin at breakfast time to see if that helps was really hoping to avoid any medication but at same time I need to eat!

On the plus side they were happy with my other numbers said I was doing well even though I've only been doing it a week!

 

[pinktiara]

It's not about eating more but eating the right amount of carbs and protein and staying away from the high glycemic foods. I always eat brown breads pastas etc but I switched to squirrly bread instead of our usual whole wheat and even that helped my numbers alot. I experimented alot but ended up on insulin because my hormones were just too much. It took me a few weeks to figure out what food worked for me and what spiked me every time.

 

[080509]

Weetabix and shredded wheat has a GI of around 80, sweets and lucozade/sugar has a GI of around 100, porridge has a GI of around 40.

Diabetic nurses just seem so uneducated when it comes to what foods are "right" and what isn't.

 

[pinktiara]

If you go by the original shredded wheat blocks they are 38 grams of carbs per two minus the 6 grams of fiber because you don't count that. That's alot by itself than you add milk on top of that which is about 10-15 grams of carbs so your at about 47 grams of carbs which is alot Im only suppose to have 30 grams of carbs in the morning and my protein. If I ate shreaded wheat for breakfast my numbers would be through the roof.

 

[pinktiara]

I see a dietician when I go into my clinics shes great but its a generic diet for everyone so i tweak it to foods I know that work better for me.

 

[nickynora]

If you go by the original shredded wheat blocks they are 38 grams of carbs per two minus the 6 grams of fiber because you don't count that. That's alot by itself than you add milk on top of that which is about 10-15 grams of carbs so your at about 47 grams of carbs which is alot Im only suppose to have 30 grams of carbs in the morning and my protein. If I ate shreaded wheat for breakfast my numbers would be through the roof.

I'm just going by what the dietician said to me this morning, she said I should at least be able to eat 1 shredded wheat - they wouldn't expect me to eat less carbs than that. 1 shredded wheat plus milk is around 20/25 carbs! I can't even eat that! And can only just get away with 1 weetabix with milk - and it's not like they're swimming in milk as I dont like it, I have just enough milk to soften them enough to eat.

They both said I would struggle to find something less in carbs, without cutting out carbs at breakfast altogether.

Just what I've been told - as I said it's all new to me

 

[Kayla26]

If you go by the original shredded wheat blocks they are 38 grams of carbs per two minus the 6 grams of fiber because you don't count that. That's alot by itself than you add milk on top of that which is about 10-15 grams of carbs so your at about 47 grams of carbs which is alot Im only suppose to have 30 grams of carbs in the morning and my protein. If I ate shreaded wheat for breakfast my numbers would be through the roof.

I'm just going by what the dietician said to me this morning, she said I should at least be able to eat 1 shredded wheat - they wouldn't expect me to eat less carbs than that. 1 shredded wheat plus milk is around 20/25 carbs! I can't even eat that! And can only just get away with 1 weetabix with milk - and it's not like they're swimming in milk as I dont like it, I have just enough milk to soften them enough to eat.

They both said I would struggle to find something less in carbs, without cutting out carbs at breakfast altogether.

Just what I've been told - as I said it's all new to me

I find that even 1 weetabix sends my numbers high too. I have been having 1 slice of toasted granary bread with soft cheese - which seems to be ok. I may try porridge too but I think cereals are out for me.

 

[pinktiara]

Some things will spike you some things wont thats why I ended up on the unsulin because no matter what I ate my morning numbers were always terrible.

 

[pinktiara]

Cereals no matter what type always spike me I do the steel cut oats and there good or squirrely bread toast with natural peanut butter and eggs etc

 

[CelticNiamh]

If you go by the original shredded wheat blocks they are 38 grams of carbs per two minus the 6 grams of fiber because you don't count that. That's alot by itself than you add milk on top of that which is about 10-15 grams of carbs so your at about 47 grams of carbs which is alot Im only suppose to have 30 grams of carbs in the morning and my protein. If I ate shreaded wheat for breakfast my numbers would be through the roof.

I'm just going by what the dietician said to me this morning, she said I should at least be able to eat 1 shredded wheat - they wouldn't expect me to eat less carbs than that. 1 shredded wheat plus milk is around 20/25 carbs! I can't even eat that! And can only just get away with 1 weetabix with milk - and it's not like they're swimming in milk as I dont like it, I have just enough milk to soften them enough to eat.

They both said I would struggle to find something less in carbs, without cutting out carbs at breakfast altogether.

Just what I've been told - as I said it's all new to me

I find that even 1 weetabix sends my numbers high too. I have been having 1 slice of toasted granary bread with soft cheese - which seems to be ok. I may try porridge too but I think cereals are out for me.

I do not even try to eat weetabix any more, brown bread and some cheese like low low or may be some egg like an omelette then I only have one slice of brown bread

My insulin was increased today hope it works on my fasting levels when I wake in the morning

 

[nickynora]

Thanks ladies.

I think I take after my mum when it comes to cereals and carbs at breakfast - she struggles with them at breakfast too. She can't eat toast, porridge etc even the things they say are good for diabetics in terms of carbs at breakfast etc

So I will try the metformin and hopefully it'll allow me to eat a little carbs without worrying too much, as I dont think I have an option really - I can't switch it for high fat stuff etc as I also have to watch my weight due to my raised bmi - so they've said they can't/won't ask me to eat less than 1 shredded wheat or equivalent for breakfast.

Like I said it's all new to me, so I can only go by what they recommend - mums been working on her diabetes with them for last 10 yrs and says they're actually very good!

 

[AmeliePoulain]

I was awful with bread and cereals - I could tolerate reddybrek quite well but not porridge? I used to eat a child's size bowl of reddybrek but made sure I snacked well in the morning.

I probably really didn't enough carbs but I only had one incident of ketones at about 32 weeks.

I ate so many eggs that in nearly 2 months since Elodie was born I havent been able to face scrambled egg or an omelette!

 

[BroodyBlair]

For those we are already mothers with GD and insulin controlled - how long did you need to stay in hospital after babies birth and was your baby put into any special care straight after birth? Thanks xx

 

[bumpsmum]

good question broody I'd also love to know the answer. Both my boys went to NNICU right away as they will early would love it if this baby could stay on the ward with me, or at least get skin to skin for a bit!

I'm another one who can't tolerate cereal in the morn and I LOVE my cereal toast is so boring now and I'm not a egg person either. Got really fed up yesterday at my mid afternoon snack with oatcakes etc i had a kids fun size banana thinking it'd be ok NO..... my pre-evening meal reading over 2 hours later was 14.1!!! As you can imagine this set the rest of the days readings off too oops! x

 

[nickynora]

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I'm another one who can't tolerate cereal in the morn and I LOVE my cereal toast is so boring now and I'm not a egg person either. Got really fed up yesterday at my mid afternoon snack with oatcakes etc i had a kids fun size banana thinking it'd be ok NO..... my pre-evening meal reading over 2 hours later was 14.1!!! As you can imagine this set the rest of the days readings off too oops! x

Yeah one of the first things mum said to me was watch bananas!

 

[BroodyBlair]

good question broody I'd also love to know the answer. Both my boys went to NNICU right away as they will early would love it if this baby could stay on the ward with me, or at least get skin to skin for a bit!

I'm another one who can't tolerate cereal in the morn and I LOVE my cereal toast is so boring now and I'm not a egg person either. Got really fed up yesterday at my mid afternoon snack with oatcakes etc i had a kids fun size banana thinking it'd be ok NO..... my pre-evening meal reading over 2 hours later was 14.1!!! As you can imagine this set the rest of the days readings off too oops! x

Did you have GD with your 2 boys? I noticed you were very early, 7 and 10 wks. Yes, i'm another who can't eat bananas. I haven't done in months as the last time i had a double figured reading and had to leave work as felt really ill and took a rash afterwards xx

 

[080509]

Broody i'm type 1 (insulin) and both with both mine we had to stay in hospital 24hours, routine procedure in most hospitals just incase. Both their bloods sugars were good so didn't need extra care/NICU or anything, i BF my second and i literally fed and fed and fed none stop, his sugars were in the 3's/4's which is very good even in babies not born to diabetics! They thought i was GD with my first but same applies to all diabetics whether GD/type 1/2 here, we tend to get induced at 38 weeks and then the 24hour stay after.

hope that helps x

 

[LittleSienna]

So I had my 2hr GTT yesterday, my results came back as 8.4 which the cut off point is 8.5 so I'm really on the borderline,

No one has given me any further advice on what I should be doing to help it? and im feeling a little confused as to what im supposed to do next?

thanks in advance.