Gestational Diabetes

I have GD so here are a few of the answers that I have gotten. Yes, it can be hereditary but doesn't have to be. In fact, it could be that one of your Aunts or a grandparent have diabetes, not just your mom or siblings. But that does NOT you will have it too.

Your placenta produces horomones that can cause your body to have a hard time producing enough inslin. Sometimes a special diet can help your body keep up with the sugars, other times your body needs to have insilin injected in order to keep up.

The first test , the one hour, measures your blood sugar level after one hour of drinking the sugary juice stuff. If that number is above a certain point (120 I think it is) then you go for a 3 hour test. Often the 3 hour test shows that your body is producing enough insilin and there are no problems. Only 3% of pregnant women get GD, and even less require insilin injections.

There are NO symptons really, unless you have severe diabetes. So I felt fine the whole time. I will tell you that I gained an above average amount of weight the month I was diagnosed with it. It was weird because I was not eating lots of junk or ice cream and I felt like I was packing on the weight. That was because the sugar in my body couldn't be broken down properly and sugar just becomes fat when unused.

i wasn't overweight and I got it anyway...I am no skinny minnie but I wasn't considered overweight when I got pregnant.

and yes, I now have a MUCH higher risk of Type II diabetes and I must get down to a skinny minnie size in order minimize that risk in the future. So I have to be on a strict diet now and after the baby is born----I hate diets.