Another update

[gwenneth]

Well, lo and behold lucky me gets to be a gestational diabetic. ARGH. I failed two of the four numbers on the 3-hour test. So now I have to watch the diet, test four stupid times a day and have ANOTHER thing to worry about. I cried, I'll admit it, because I'm already overly stressed out

Comments

[leggylover03]

Congrats! They are growing more and more and will be here soon. Here is wishing you all the luck in the world.

[frenchpony]

Wow. That's a lot to deal with. Does gestational diabetes go away after the girls are born? If so, maybe the prematurity does have its upside.

nd how can they tell how much the babies weigh while they're still inside you? *pictures Gwenneth standing on a scale while people in white lab coats do complicated math involving slide rules*

[gwenneth]

LOL on the mental image! The weight estimates I've heard are really inaccurate sometimes, but basically they measure the head circumference, the diameter of the head from front to back and left side to right side, the circumference of the abdomen and the length of the femur. Based on those measurements, they can give you an estimate of weight. Then again, it can be off by a lot in either direction! I'm hoping it isn't!

In most women, gestational diabetes does go away after the babies are born because all the addition hormones are no longer interfereing with your insulin's ability to do its job. Some women, my mother included, become a full blown diabetic instead.

My numbers aren't nearly what hers were, nor am I the age she was, so we are crossing every possible body part that I see it go away after they come.

[meggins]

Oh, Kate, it really is piling on you. ***hugs***

Fwiw, my sister-in-law had gestational diabetes and it went away. Also, my niece was small and was sent to Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters (that's a mouthful) and spent her first couple of weeks in an incubator. She really looked wretched, but she has grown up into a lovely young woman.

So, I'm hoping, hoping, hoping that the pregnancy problems are the worst of it and that your girls will end up just fine. You, too!

Oh, and stress will make your blood sugar levels elevate, so that's another factor.