Flyingduster- that is great news. I did the gtt early last time (around 9 weeks) they had to give me antisickness meds to keep the lucozade down for 2 hours. Are you UK or US? I'm 🇬🇧 and already seeing rises after meals
Neither actually, I'm in New Zealand! I'm seeing my midwife next week so I'm going to talk to her about the next steps.
My 8 weeks ultrasound is this Friday, so I can't wait to hear the heartbeat. I will try not to get my hopes up about girl vs boy, but I admit I would like a little girl as I already have a step-son. I don't want to be even more outnumbered.
My husband and I like to argue about which is more likely... I'm one of 5 girls, and one of my sisters has 2 girls. He's an only child with a son, and he thinks since his father has 3 brothers (and a sister) a boy is more likely.
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Us women have no real say in the gender of our babies! We only give out the X chromosome, whereas those sperm might be X or Y!! The only influence we can have is having an environment more hospitable to one or the other, but in the end it only takes one!! Haha
I'm also diabetic. I never heard of you having gestational and then not having it again. That's awesome, means you are maintaining glucose better than last time. I can imagine they may just closely monitor, maybe have you test at homes regularly to monitor and run another fasting later. The more hormones maybe it can develope? Wishing you the best .
Ok so gestational diabetes is hormonal, and caused by the placenta. As it turns out, every single pregnant women gets somewhat more insulin resistant than those not pregnant. It's hormonal, and there isn't a problem with it normally. But for some people those hormones are just too much for our bodies and we become TOO insulin resistant, and they diagnose us as having gestational diabetes. It is totally only related to being pregnant, and once the baby is born it goes away. Although a lot of women who become diabetic later, have often had GD previously, so it's seen as a risk factor for type two later.
As you are already diabetic, you will be under careful watch because your body will become MORE insulin resistant and you may need to change your medication and/or diet. Also they go craaaazy strict on the levels they want you under with GD compared to normal diabetes so it's tough.
I worry about getting gestational diabetes so much, but I still keep eating sugar.
I think it's part craving, part convenience (post Valentines & Girl Scout cookie season). I'm hoping I beat the odds, but it doesn't look good with all my risk factors (obese, older, mom w/ Type I).
Oh Hun, you CANNOT make yourself have it, or make yourself avoid it, by what you eat. Eating sugar won't make you get it, it's a hormonal thing!!! Yes you have risk factors, but even the skinniest healthiest mamma with no risk factors can get it too!! Eating sugar won't cause it. If you have a problem with insulin resistance (ie, diabetes!) then eating sugar when your body cannot reduce that sugar properly is a risk to your baby, but if you don't have an insulin resistance problem, then eating sugar is not going to CAUSE an insulin resistance problem!!
Being overweight, we (me too!) naturally will have a slight issue with insulin resistance already, so weight loss is a great help, but it's not the only factor, and you can NOT cause yourself to be GD. I promise, it is never anyone's fault. It is hormonal and out of our full control. Xx
FlyingDuster that's really good news, I bet you're so relieved! I've also always had low iron in pregnancy as was vegan then veggy and now just eat chicken breast (!), but until this pregnancy I never worried about it and don't think I even took iron pills. I figured it wasn't going to hurt me and didn't want any more pills to pop!
However, it's only this time around so I've been made aware of the miscarriage risk with low iron, so I've been popping all manner of prenatal vits and supps pre-pregnancy, and am now just on Elevit. I'm also eating lots of nuts and eggs (with my other pregnancies nuts were banned, but that was 7 years ago and the 'rules' have changed now, thank goodness!).
So did you always / usually have low iron then?
No I haven't always had low iron, but as a older child/early teen I had low iron along with other stuff going on, as well as in my last pregnancy I had low iron and needed supplements, and I know I've had supplements some other time but I'm pretty sure it was before kids. But it was more that I haven't been to a doc for a checkup at all in years, the best it has been was being pregnant and getting checks then, so actually since my last lot of bloods to do with my last pregnancy, I had no idea if I was actually ok in regards to iron! So I'm glad I am good.
Whew, yay for the multi quote feature! Haha!! Thanks for the words of kindness from others too xx.
Shanlee, we've never found out any of our babies genders, it is amazing at the birth to finally find out who I was meeting!! Haha. Both times I was the one to see first too, so that was special. We won't be finding out this time either!
Ooohh the nausea is setting in well now. So far no vomiting, although gross nappies are making my dry retch. But yeah the nausea has me floored at times, and I get hungry but NOTHING looks good and I really struggle to eat, I pick at it slowly and it just isn't appetising at all. It was like this with my other two pregnancies too, and never got worse than this, so fingers crossed it stays the same again!!!
I bet everything will be fine 
