Hey all, question. My blood sugars have been very good the last few days. I've been eating pineapple and dates and they've still been good (balanced with protein). I just had 78 after breakfast, and I ate pineapple with eggs and sausage. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced really good readings suddenly, at what point, or if readings get better towards when you deliver? Google isn't telling me anything. Thanks!
I wanted to check in from the other side with GD-related stuff--but first of all, hang in there! So close!
Since I was diet/exercise controlled, in keeping with my practice's guidelines they didn't induce me and I went into labor naturally the day after my due date. When they admitted me to the hospital they started monitoring pretty closely--they took my blood sugar every few hours until the baby was born, and I had a blood pressure cuff attached to me that went off every 15-30 minutes.
I don't know her percentile but little Carolina was born at only 6 lbs 15 oz, which is pretty small for my family where 8 lbs is the norm. I had been pretty strict with my diet (until the last week or two at least) and at my last OB appt a few days before the birth I was only 1 lb heavier than the day I was diagnosed w GD at 27 weeks.
When I heard her weight I figured we were in the clear BUT her blood sugar ended up being low, and dropped even further in the hours after birth. I know that wasn't a reaction to a spike of mine the day of the birth, bc I was admitted into the hospital with a 90 an hour after dinner and I overheard I was at 70 later in the night, so I'm wondering if the bit of slacking I did in the final weeks brought that instability down on her, or if it was just a vaguely inevitable thing because of GD more generally? I feel pretty awful and guilty about that but the truth is that it wasn't too severe and the only consequence was that she needed formula supplementation to bring her sugar up. SO if you're super trying to avoid formula supplementing just keep in mind that may be something the baby will need--and don't despair because it hasn't damaged her ability or interest in latching and breastfeeding!
I popped in to read @cato99's update and realized I didn't check in from the other side either. I was set to be induced on 5/9, but Sebastian decided to show up on 5/6. We expected him to be huge, but he was just 7lbs 4oz at 2 weeks early. I was also diet controlled. The last few weeks I did lots of slacking, but the slacking didn't actually seem to affect my numbers. My numbers were great (70s) during labor and my OB actually ordered the nurses to stop checking them as I had been fine before and during labor. Sebastian also had low numbers post birth. They brought it up with some formula via syringe. It dropped again around the 24 hr mark right around the time he started cluster feeding and then quickly came up after all the feeding. He's doing great now and his pediatrician isn't concerned at all.
@jayandaplus my numbers the last few weeks before delivery were awesome. I ate a few more things that I had not been able to have previously. I researched and found this to not be uncommon but GD is still there and to not get too lax.
Hey all sorry to resurrect this thread now that so many of us are on the other side, but I wanted to spill some AW anxiety somewhere!
I'm 11 days post partum and not thrilled by my blood glucose numbers I've been checking out of curiosity (I haven't been asked to monitor) and I guess I expected my numbers to plummet but they've gone up a little. Post-meal numbers are still generally within normal/healthy range (though I'm side-eyeing them for being higher than I'd like) but my fasting number (which under diet-controlled GD I had kept mostly 85-90) is hovering around 100, which is the cutoff between normal and prediabetes.
I'm guessing I can bring some of that down at least a little as I recover more from birth, get back into normal exercise habits (I was hiking/walking an hour a day until the day before I went into labor), get more consistent sleep, and lose some pregnancy (and before that IVF) weight. But I don't know how much of that I can accomplish in the next 4 or so weeks before my OB check-up where presumably they may bestow upon me a permanent diagnosis!
tldr Area Woman whines about potential prediabetes, feels sorry for self.
@cato99 Sorry your numbers aren't as good as you'd like. Are you still on a GD diet? If not it sounds like you're doing great. You're only a couple weeks pp so give yourself some more time. Perhaps checking us causing stress that may be raising you BS. Hang in there!
I agree @cato99 that your recovery and the added stress of a newborn probably aren't helping with your readings. The number limits do change slightly for pregnant vs non-pregnant women (they're actually allowed to be slightly higher when not pregnant per ADA info). Also, according to my MFM dr they don't usually test in the office for follow up until 6-12 weeks following delivery to give your body time to adjust/re-calibrate.
Re: GD check-in
Since I was diet/exercise controlled, in keeping with my practice's guidelines they didn't induce me and I went into labor naturally the day after my due date. When they admitted me to the hospital they started monitoring pretty closely--they took my blood sugar every few hours until the baby was born, and I had a blood pressure cuff attached to me that went off every 15-30 minutes.
I don't know her percentile but little Carolina was born at only 6 lbs 15 oz, which is pretty small for my family where 8 lbs is the norm. I had been pretty strict with my diet (until the last week or two at least) and at my last OB appt a few days before the birth I was only 1 lb heavier than the day I was diagnosed w GD at 27 weeks.
When I heard her weight I figured we were in the clear BUT her blood sugar ended up being low, and dropped even further in the hours after birth. I know that wasn't a reaction to a spike of mine the day of the birth, bc I was admitted into the hospital with a 90 an hour after dinner and I overheard I was at 70 later in the night, so I'm wondering if the bit of slacking I did in the final weeks brought that instability down on her, or if it was just a vaguely inevitable thing because of GD more generally? I feel pretty awful and guilty about that but the truth is that it wasn't too severe and the only consequence was that she needed formula supplementation to bring her sugar up. SO if you're super trying to avoid formula supplementing just keep in mind that may be something the baby will need--and don't despair because it hasn't damaged her ability or interest in latching and breastfeeding!
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I'm 11 days post partum and not thrilled by my blood glucose numbers
I'm guessing I can bring some of that down at least a little as I recover more from birth, get back into normal exercise habits (I was hiking/walking an hour a day until the day before I went into labor), get more consistent sleep, and lose some pregnancy (and before that IVF) weight. But I don't know how much of that I can accomplish in the next 4 or so weeks before my OB check-up where presumably they may bestow upon me a permanent diagnosis!
tldr Area Woman whines about potential prediabetes, feels sorry for self.