to ask how much sugar you ate when pregnant?

[mikado1]

If you have a sweet tooth, did you make real changes? I am eating plenty of good stuffs-3 decent meals plus healthy snacks but on top if this I could put away 2 bars of chocolate, easy.. I don't have any weight issues myself but wonder is this bu and should I make a better effort? I am 13 weeks now and coming out of the nausea but am still exhausted and that definitely sets off the craving, it's not hunger I know. .

[DorotheaHomeAlone]

Craved sweet stuff like crazy throughout pregnancy but kept it under control by keeping a lot of easy to eat fruit (berries, grapes, precut mango) around. Mat leave has been a constant stream of biscuits and cake so far but the bf has me slimmer than before I got pregnant. Dreading weaning as I'll have to be a bit more sensible again!!

[creambun2014]

I ate so many mcdonalds with dc1 it was ridiculous. They ran that promotion with the free glasses and I received so many I had to give some away. I think it only ran for 6 weeks as well!

I go for the I am pregnant I will eat what I like angle.

[DeckTheHallsWithBartimaeus]

I was sick for 9 months with both pregnancies. I ate whatever I liked the idea of, which meant lots and lots of chocolate and biscuits.

Both times I lost the baby weight within 3 months (well, 1 month with DS1) despite continuing to mainline sugar.

Now DS2 is 9 months my sweet craving has calmed a bit.

[DurhamDurham]

My girls are now 21 and 17, when I was pregnant there wasn't the same 'fear' attached yo eating sugar, it was still thought yo be better for you than fat. I just set normally........normal being several biscuits and a bar of chocolate on a daily basis. I didn't look pregnant until almost 6 months when I suddenly developed big bumps. Both babies were over 8lbs. I lost all baby weight by the time they were 3 months old.

I eat a lot less sugar now that I know how addictive and bad for us it is. I eat lots of fat now instead

[Shatteredmamma1]

Who was eating Nutella out of the jar? I may have done this last night.,. reading all your stories has made me feel better. Every day I wake up determined to be healthy. Then I hit the biscuits!!!

[TiltedPenguin]

With DD2, I craved loveheart sweets and would eat up to 12 packets a day I'd never had cravings like that previously, but I was waking at 3am feeling hysterical if we didn't have any in.
It didn't seem to affect me - I had normal bloods all the way through and the weight is going down sensibly now I am back to a normal healthy diet. I wouldn't recommend it though!

[GotToBeInItToWinIt]

I meant to say I did regret all the eating when I struggled to shift the baby weight! If it wasn't for the copious amounts of sugar I don't think I would have put much on other than bump. I'm being much more careful this time as when I got pregnant with DC2 I was still a stone and a half heavier than before conceiving DD, and definitely don't want to end up 3 stone heavier after having DC2!

[Mammanat222]

Proper sweet tooth with DD. Couldn't control myself as much as I should. Still ate healthily but had a daily sweet fix (be it a bar of choccie or a cupcake). As long as I had my treat then I was ok.

Had to have the GTT this time though. Had a mini one at my 28w appointment (new policy and everyone has it. One glass of lucazade then a blood test an hour later. I flagged up needing the proper test. Which was confirmed no GD)

Baby arrived a few days ago and other than a cereal bar after delivery I've had nothing at all sweet.

[SenatusPopulusqueRomanorum]

None for about 12 weeks. I usually have a very sweet tooth but I couldn't stand sugar at the beginning of my pregnancies. Even courgettes made me throw up because I found them too sweet.
Then I ate like a horse for the rest of the pregnancies.

I was overweight to begin with, so I don't know if the usual rules re-weight gain apply, but I was back to my pre-pregnancy weight a week after giving birth all three times.

[TooSpotty]

I think some people are a bit confused on here. (Lots are not!)

GD cannot be caused by eating lots of sweet things, but if you have developed insulin resistance (when your blood cells aren't using insulin properly and therefore your blood sugar is going and staying too high) then eating them won't do you any good.

Bear in mind that insulin resistance is rising in the general population, and that women are usually naturally more insulin resistant in pregnancy than not, and there's a real possibility for lots of us that we are not metabolising sugar brilliantly. Different trusts have different diagnostics for GD and I have certainly seen women on here get the all clear when my trust would have diagnosed them.

Having said all that, I think over-medicalisation of mild GD isn't particularly helpful and can lead to unnecessary stress and interventions.

Anyway, bottom line is that nothing you eat will GIVE you GD but that limiting sugar in pregnancy is sensible. Says the woman who had a selection box for lunch once in her last pregnancy! I did though find my real intense sugar cravings were while breast feeding, and that's also when the weight went on.

[mikado1]

Thanks all and toospotty for that info. Good to know I am not the only one!! Not a bit worried about my weight-more about baby's health/development.

[kaykayred]

I think the only thing you can really do is to make a decision about how many cravings you will give into a day, and then stick to it, and try to do damage control. E.g. a low calorie hot chocolate will have sweetner and not sugar, so could be a way out. Or some really dark chocolate which has less sugar in it.

There's nothing wrong with eating sugar when you're pregnant, but if you are having massive cravings then I think it's sensible to try and keep a lid on it. I have known people to get gestational diabetes, and even if it wasn't directly caused by all the chocolate and sweets they were eating, they still always felt like shit about it and had the "what if I hadn't done that...." thoughts swirling around.

[KleineDracheKokosnuss]

Loads. I ate 6 Krispy Kreme raspberry jam filled donuts in one day once. Doesn't seem to have affected DD at all though - she was only just over 6 lb at birth, doesn't have a particularly sweet tooth, and she's a tiny little thing.