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Can you tell me how to know if I have gestational diabetes?
If you even think you have gestational diabetes, get thee to a medical dispensary immediately.
Very funny. Why are you so concerned?
Gestational diabetes is a major problem, and a relatively common one. Anywhere from 2 to
10 women in 100 develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy.
Why the variation in odds?
Gestational diabetes is more likely if you are Native American, Indian or Chinese. The
odds are lower if you’re white, while odds go up with age.
Gestational diabetes should go away when I have the baby. What can prenatal diabetes
do for the short time I could have it?
It could make the frequent urination of pregnancy worse. It can raise your blood pressure, making
pre-eclampsia a greater risk.
One is minor, the other a minor risk.
It could make yeast infections a horror.
Minor annoyance.
You’re more likely to get an oversized baby. If labor with a normal 8 pound baby is hard,
try a 9 or 10 pound bundle of joy.
Oh, God, I have to get tested for that, right now. What other than race and age are risk
factors?
If you have a family history of diabetes, you’re more likely to get gestational diabetes.
And risk goes up with weight.
Dieting during pregnancy is hard.
You don’t have to diet, just control weight gain.
I’ve heard bad things about the GTT test they do to find out if you have it.
Doctors make all women take a glucose tolerance test to measure their blood sugar before and
after drinking a foul tasting drink. But it is safe, whereas diabetes isn’t.
Or the much harder work of laboring to get a 10 pound baby out.
Or a C-section.
Yeah, the horror story of delivery is bad enough without making the baby sound like
a big fish story. Oh, yeah, mine was THIS big and took THIS long.