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Just diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes today and looking for support
- Thread starter Alibaba
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Hi Alibaba, welcome to the forum 🙂 I don't personally have any knowledge about GD, but I know some of our members do and hopefully they will be along with some advice.
rachelha
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Hi Alibaba
I have type 1 diabetes and have a healthy 3 month old baby. There are a number of pregnant diabetics in here just now. How far along are you? How are you controlling it at the moment? I hope you have a supportive team at your hospital.
My main tip would be not to do too many google searches on diabetes and pregnancy, there are lots of horror and negative stories. It is possible to have a healthy pregnancy and baby with diabetes. Feel free to ask any questions you have either on here or send me a private message if you want.
Have you looked at the baby centre site? There is a diabetes group on there which is active and has a number of gestational ladies on it.
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I have type 1 diabetes and have a healthy 3 month old baby. There are a number of pregnant diabetics in here just now. How far along are you? How are you controlling it at the moment? I hope you have a supportive team at your hospital.
My main tip would be not to do too many google searches on diabetes and pregnancy, there are lots of horror and negative stories. It is possible to have a healthy pregnancy and baby with diabetes. Feel free to ask any questions you have either on here or send me a private message if you want.
Have you looked at the baby centre site? There is a diabetes group on there which is active and has a number of gestational ladies on it.
Rx
smile4loubie
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Hi Alibaba
Welcome to the wonderful world of diabetes, sorry you had to join us but we arent that bad =)
I'm 17 weeks pregnant and had type 2 diabetes for 6 years. Though its not gestational I feel for you. If you have any questions please ask away.
I agree with Rachel, avoid google as much as you can as it can fill you with all these horror stories. As long as your careful about what you eat and how you control it and have a good team behind you theres no reason why you can't have a healthy pregnancy or baby.
Hopefully someone with gestational diabetes will be along soon for more direct advice.
Good luck with everything and hope to see you around here again soon xxx
Welcome to the wonderful world of diabetes, sorry you had to join us but we arent that bad =)
I'm 17 weeks pregnant and had type 2 diabetes for 6 years. Though its not gestational I feel for you. If you have any questions please ask away.
I agree with Rachel, avoid google as much as you can as it can fill you with all these horror stories. As long as your careful about what you eat and how you control it and have a good team behind you theres no reason why you can't have a healthy pregnancy or baby.
Hopefully someone with gestational diabetes will be along soon for more direct advice.
Good luck with everything and hope to see you around here again soon xxx
Thanks everyone 🙂 Yeah I've already scared myself on google - need to step away from that!
The hospital are being really good, the specialist midwife is nice and she has told me to just eat the meals I normally would for a couple of weeks but cut out sugary snacks and see what happens to my sugar levels, and then make adjustments if certain things are sending them really high. All the readings so far have been well under the targets so I guess that is a positive.
I feel silly moaning really when this is (hopefully) only going to be a relatively short term thing, just came as a bit of a shock!
rachel thanks for the tip about babycenter, I haven't used that site before so I will take a look 🙂
The hospital are being really good, the specialist midwife is nice and she has told me to just eat the meals I normally would for a couple of weeks but cut out sugary snacks and see what happens to my sugar levels, and then make adjustments if certain things are sending them really high. All the readings so far have been well under the targets so I guess that is a positive.
I feel silly moaning really when this is (hopefully) only going to be a relatively short term thing, just came as a bit of a shock!
rachel thanks for the tip about babycenter, I haven't used that site before so I will take a look 🙂
Lizzzie
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Helloooo Alibaba!
I'm another one who doesn't know much about the gestational variety I'm afraid, but you've every right to feel a bit overwhelmed because finding out you're diabetic isn't easy and the best of times, and neither is being pregnant, but both together..... must be a nasty shock.
I'm type one and 20 weeks at the moment; how far on are you? How're you feeling? Good luck with controlling it by diet.
I'm another one who doesn't know much about the gestational variety I'm afraid, but you've every right to feel a bit overwhelmed because finding out you're diabetic isn't easy and the best of times, and neither is being pregnant, but both together..... must be a nasty shock.
I'm type one and 20 weeks at the moment; how far on are you? How're you feeling? Good luck with controlling it by diet.
Hi Lizzzie 🙂
I'm 26 weeks. This is my second baby, I've got a son who is 2.5 and I didn't get GD with him.
So far so good controlling this with diet, I eat fairly heathly anyway so I haven't had to change too much and all the readings I've done have been well within target so hopefully it will stay that way!!
I'm 26 weeks. This is my second baby, I've got a son who is 2.5 and I didn't get GD with him.
So far so good controlling this with diet, I eat fairly heathly anyway so I haven't had to change too much and all the readings I've done have been well within target so hopefully it will stay that way!!
grahams mum
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they find out on the normal routine test or did they send you for a fasting glucose tollerance test ? nice to know if you have read my new post
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