Babies

[Woodside]

Hi,
Is there any connection with having big babies & diabetes? I had my first son 42 years age,he weighed 9lb 7oz. A few weeks after l had him, l had a appointment to come into hospital. I had to spend the day drinking a mixture & water. Then they would take blood & checked my urine every few hours. Nothing was found. I have no family diabetes in my family history. My other son was 9lb 4oz, they did not give me the same test. My hubby is over 6ft, so really l didn't expect to have a small baby. That is the only dealings l have ever had with diabetes. Have been prediabete for a few years, till l was diagnosed with type 2 about 2 weeks ago. So l am still getting my head around, my plans for going forward.

 

[Inamuddle]

The only connection that i know of is that 30 years ago if you have type 1 you were more likely to have a bigger baby. I was tiny and had a 9lb and an 8lb babies but another woman in the diabetic baby clinic had a whopping 11 lb baby.

Sorry to hear about your type 2 diagnosis but i cannot imagine that its connected to your babies 40 years ago.

 

[bakebeans]

Mine was 10lb 3. There was a mix up with my blood tests and my sugar levels were never checked so babies weight was a huge surprise. 8 years later I was diagnosed as type 2 so wonder if I could have been running high while pregnant

 

[Drummer]

both my babies were over 9 lb when born - I was asked about diabetes in the family during pregnancy and urine samples were checked - but even after diagnosis I have never had a positive urine test, except possibly just the very slightest colour change a couple of times, but nothing definite. They were born 1982 and 85, so long before my diagnosis in 2016 - but as I have always known, and told doctors, and been ignored, I have always had to eat a low carb diet to feel right.

 

[mikeyB]

My younger brother was nearly 10lb when he was born at home - little sod woke me up. Mum, all of 5ft 1 in shoes, was diagnosed with Type 1 a matter of days later. That was 18 months after me- I was born 6lbs 8oz at a maternity home that is now a huge million++ private mansion less than a mile from where I now live. Needless to say, there is no blue plaque to record the event, even though I once repaired a perineal tear there. Looked as good as new. (Not that I was familiar with that perineum, but you know what I mean.)

 

[Sally71]

I think there is a connection but I can’t remember what the reason is. I was born in 1971 to a type 1 mum and weighed 8lb 5oz which was considered quite big, I was also comatose for the first 24 hours of my life due to being used to mum’s higher than normal blood sugar. By the time my brother came along 4.5 years later they had learned how to control mum’s diabetes better during pregnancy, and he weighed only 6lb 13oz.

My own daughter was larger than I was at birth, 8lb 15oz, and I don’t have any type of diabetes! So whilst there is some sort of connection, it’s by no means a foregone conclusion that big babies are a result of diabetes.