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Gestational Diabetes

I am 25 years old and 37 weeks pregnant with my second baby. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes a week ago. Since I am so close to delivery now, how much good can changing my diet do now?

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I am 31 weeks pregnant, and I have gestational diabetes. My blood sugar has been as high as 146 mg/dl [8.1 mmol/L] one hour after a meal, but will drop to 119 mg/dl [6.6 mmol/L] or less within 30 minutes. Is this acceptable? Can this rapid fluctuation harm my baby or cause the baby to grow very large?

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I have gestational diabetes and have read some of the answers to ketones questions on this board, and they said urine ketones are not harmful as long as they are not serum ketones. As a first time mother-to-be, I’m really worried, and have many questions.

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I am 27, 25 weeks pregnant, and at 19 weeks my obstetrician recommended that I switch to a low carb diet (under 20 grams daily). After five weeks on this diet my urine ketone levels are now at a constant high, and my GTT results are abnormal. Should I be alarmed by this or does a low-carb diet normally produce these types of results?

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Does drinking water or doing moderate exercise during the three-hour glucose tolerance test for pregnant women affect the results?

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I’m 38 weeks pregnant and have borderline gestational diabetes. An obstetrician has told me that, because of the gestational diabetes, I should seriously consider a voluntary C-section if the baby is estimated to weigh over 8 pounds 13 ounces. Are there any statistics available on this issue?

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I am 39, eight months pregnant with my fourth child, and weigh 173 pounds. I’m going in for a three-hour glucose test because my one- hour test was elevated. Having had low blood sugar most of my life, how can it be, that all of a sudden my levels are high?

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I am 35 years old and seven weeks pregnant with my second child. I took the three-hour glucose test with my first pregnancy which was okay. Yesterday, I had my urine checked. The nurse noted that there was a trace of ketones present. When I research ketones, the only hits I get concern diabetes. Why do I have ketones in my urine? How can I get rid of them quick?

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I am 36 years old, 14 weeks pregnant, I and have a very strong family history of diabetes. I have questions about the testing done for diabetes.

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I have had three children weighing more than 10 pounds, and I was never diagnosed with gestational diabetes during these these pregnancies was with my most recent pregnancy. What type of effects can a child of a mother with undiagnosed and untreated gestational diabetes have later in life?

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