My experience with gestational diabetes wasn’t all bad, although I
certainly wish it hadn’t been so long. Because I was diagnosed at 17
weeks and my pregnancy lasted nearly 42 weeks, I tested my blood sugar
and maintained a strict diet for 25 weeks, or more than six months. It
was so long that I completely filled the tracking log and had to make my
own pages for the last few weeks. Good grief.
During labor, my blood sugar was tested every six hours. I didn’t have regular food intake, so the tests weren’t timed to two hours after eating. In fact, the numbers were usually higher than the 120 two hours after eating limit that I’d stuck to for those six months. Hearing the higher numbers stressed me out, but they were fine because they could be explained by juice or other intake. And I think they were testing more to be sure I didn’t bottom out.
Read the rest at Woman's Hospital's "Life Among Women" blog. (Called Mommy-Go-Round when first published.)
During labor, my blood sugar was tested every six hours. I didn’t have regular food intake, so the tests weren’t timed to two hours after eating. In fact, the numbers were usually higher than the 120 two hours after eating limit that I’d stuck to for those six months. Hearing the higher numbers stressed me out, but they were fine because they could be explained by juice or other intake. And I think they were testing more to be sure I didn’t bottom out.
Read the rest at Woman's Hospital's "Life Among Women" blog. (Called Mommy-Go-Round when first published.)