Ladies that have had gtt results come back with problems...

[milliemoomummy]

Hi ladies just looking for a bit of help, had a GTT yesterday rang and got my results today to find that it was on the high side, they have booked me in to see a consultant Thursday morning at the hospital. Just wondering if anyone else has had the same result before and what happens now basically? Dont want to be worrying thinking until i see the consultant Thursday. Thanks xx

It depends on how high your results are. It is managed pretty much like proper diabetes, mine I managed with diet, I had to be very careful and do pin prick blood tests 3 (6?), (sorry was 8 years ago) a day. Either just after eating or before and after.

I managed to keep my levels perfect through the rest of my pregnancy and after a bit of a battle was allowed to give birth in a birthing center.

If you cannot keep your blood sugar levels steady with diet, then you will need further intervention (insulin, I think) Unfortunately if this applies you automatically become 'high risk' and are likely to have alot of monitoring during birth. When I had ds practice was also to automatically bottlefeed babies of mums with GD from birth (or was at my trust anyway) which is one of the reasons I was so strict about diet as I wanted to bf.

Hope this is of some use, some of it may be outdated now, hopefully someone will come along with more recent experience.

I had gestational diabetes with both DCs 6 and 4 years ago. I managed it by diet, eating low GI meals/food and no sweets! I was given Metformin to take if my blood sugar went above a certain number for no apparent reason - I.e. If I'd had a sneaky treat and one set of numbers was above the limit that was ok.

I had extra scans at 32 and 36 weeks to check that the babies were not too big. I also had to attend a diabetic clinic every fortnight where they checked my bp, weighed me, took blood and checked my blood sugar results diary.

I was induced at term both times. I was in a consultant-led unit but was treated as a 'normal' delivery so minimal monitoring. Both births were straightforward with no interventions - i think the consultants stuck their head round the door a couple of times but other than that I was dealt with by midwives. Both DCs were a normal size and my bloods returned to normal afterwards.

It's a bit scary when you are first told about it - I spent the day in tears! - but actually it leads to a lot of extra care for you which is no bad thing. The only thing I would say is in my experience from previous threads, there is no one standard care approach so what you read about on here might not be how it is for you in your healthcare area. For instance, my blood sugar targets were a lot higher than other people I recall. So don't take what you read on here as being gospel as your hospital might do it slightly differently.

Good luck!

Thankyou both for your advice, very helpful. Have an appointment tommorow so will see what is said then. Thanks again x

You're welcome

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