3rd Trimester
Gestational Diabetes - anyone have or had it???
Went to the ob/gyn yesterday & failed my glorious 3 hour torture that was the glucose test. So now I have to deal with whatever I have to deal with in regards to having gestational diabetes.
Anyone else have or had it? What am I in for???
(on a side note.....gained 45lbs with 1st kid.....only gained 20 so far with this one & I'm 8 mos....WTF?)
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Re: Gestational Diabetes - anyone have or had it???
I did....you'll be sent to someone to go over the diet and finger testing. Expect several small meals and snacks spread over the day. You'll probably test your blood sugar 4 times a day...once in the morning for fasting and then 2 hours after each meal.
The carbs per meal will vary by person, but it's usually around 15-20 for breakfast, 30 for lunch, 45 for dinner, and 15g for each snack. ALWAYS have protein with carbs, and a 10 minute walk after each meal really helps as well.
You'll probably have some extra monitoring towards the end, I had bi-weekly NSTs, etc.
I had it with both pregnancies.
Basically you have to eat a limite amount of carbs so that your blood sugar is under a certain point (my cutoff was 120) after meals.
I could have 15-30g carbs for breakfast, 30-45 for lunch and 45-60 for dinner, with a snack between meals.
I had to test my blood sugar right when I woke up and two hours after each meal, so four times a day.
It's important to always eat protein with your carbs. Going for a walk after meals helps a lot as well.
It's really not so bad. Good luck!
The High Risk board has lots on GD. I test my blood 7x a day (before and 1 hour after each meal and before bed). I'm allowed 60g carbs for breakfast, 60g carbs for lunch and 75g of carbs for dinner plus 3x snacks at 15g of carbs. I need to have one serving of protein for each snack and between one and three servings with each meal. When I was first diagnosed I met with an endocrinologist, a nurse specializing in diabetes and a dietician a few times. I still have weekly appointments with my endocrinologist.
I found the diet really easy to follow. It took a short while to get used to what equals one serving of carbs, but overall I don't think my diet has changed much from pre-diagnosis at all except I need to eat more and more often. So far in this pregnancy (37.5 weeks), I have gained 14 lbs (I was a size 12 to begin with).
Good luck! We'll see you on the High Risk board.