I am 32 and just had my gestational diabetes finger stick blood test which read 145 mg/dl [8.1 mmol/L]. I didn't know I was going to take the test before going to the physician's office that morning and had nothing on my stomach but bread with peanut butter, and I hadn't eaten much the evening before due to an early dinner. They want me to re-take the finger stick test in two weeks, and, if I fail it again, they want me to do the three-hour test. I also had an amniocentesis during this pregnancy due to what first appeared to be abnormal MSAFP results, but later was determined to be lab error. Would my diet on the day of the test possibly have caused the blood sugar level to be high? I have no symptoms of diabetes other than the elevated blood sugar level of the test and am even hypotensive (as is normal with me). I am concerned because it seems every test I have with this pregnancy shows some kind of problem. I'm getting paranoid that something is going to be wrong with my baby even though the tests end up being okay.

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.