Hello, I am 40 weeks and 2 days pregnant with my second child, I am classed as low risk and everything has gone fine throughout the whole pregnancy so far. I went to see the midwife today and she did all my normal checks and they all came back fine as they have all through the pregnancy, then she measured my tummy and it came back as being 41cm, she felt the baby and said that it felt big - at least 8lb but no more than 9lb. She has now taken blood to check for Gestational Diabetes but in her own words says if I do have it, it is too late to do anything about it. It will prevent me from having my birth in the MLU like I wanted however. My mum has type 2 diabetes so I should have been given GTT earlier in the pregnancy (I did with my first) but I never saw the same midwife and it wasn't mentioned. I didn't develop GD in the first pregnancy (and I was high risk with a high BMI last time, whereas I have lost 4.5 stone before getting pregnant this time). Surely if I had GD this time something would have shown up before? Sugar in urine or in the normal blood tests? I know this is as stupid attitude but I can't help wishing she just didn't bother testing me as I don't really see what benefit it is going to do now and is just scaring me.
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