Any other moms to be been diagnosed with gestational diabetes? My doctor and the nutritionist are…

Probably getting my blood work papers to go get it done next week, I have a feeling it won’t be good news this time around. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@bbonboard, I’m sorry to hear that, I hope for your sake everything goes well and you don’t have it.

My issue is I eat extremely healthy and nothing I am doing is keeping my morning blood sugars down. I can’t afford insulin, and truly think I will have my baby before my due date. I feel perfectly fine but they keep telling me horrible things that could go wrong.

I had gestational diabetes with my daughter and I didn’t find out until late into my pregnancy. I was young and a bit careless.. didn’t really do much of what the doctors said.. ate what I wanted and my daughter was perfectly healthy , she was big ! 9.4 and they allowed me to go 2 weeks overdue which was ridiculous but don’t be nervous everything will be just fine! This time around with my second pregnancy.. I got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about a month before becoming pregnant and I’ve read so many horror stories and have been petrified but I realized being stressed and worried does not do anything good for any mom to be, just relax and enjoy your pregnancy :)

@brittanykellett, thank you for sharing your experience.

Despite what the doctors say I feel perfectly healthy then they tell me things like if I can’t control it he won’t produce enough of his own sugars and die once he’s out of me.

I find my levels are fairly low even when I indulge in chocolate or chips and I get exercise. It’s finding the snack before bed that’s healthy and the right amount so the count is less than 5.3 in the am is the hard part.

There is the odd time where I do eat the white bread or rice or something unhealthy because my husband is pickier than a child when it comes to food and being as far along as I am it’s becoming more of a pain in the ass to cook 2 different meals for every meal.

Oh wow your doctor should not be saying such awful things to you.. he should state facts but not that your baby will die! Awful. Like I said I didn’t even check my blood sugars or watch what I ate at all... being very young and irresponsible (not proud of it) but my daughter was a healthy beautiful baby and has had no issues at all health wise. She’s now 8 years old! I hope that makes you feel better :)

@brittanykellett, yes thank you! that makes me feel better.

I’m not impressed with this new doctor at all, she’s only in once a week and it’s a hour and a half drive. This will be my third doctor during this pregnancy. The one I saw before passed me off to this new one because of the gestational diabetes.

@katiehofer01, sorry your having a bad experience with your doctors, I don’t think they realize how much that can’t affect a pregnancy and add stress! Just relax and keep doing what your doing. Everything will be fine and work out :)

@brittanykellett, thank you! I already know he’s going to be a big baby they run in both sides of the family. My mans sisters smallest baby was 10.5 lbs