A short note on GTT and gestational diabetes ... provided by my new guru Ina May Gaskin.
So, Charl try not to worry too much, it is actually your body doing what it is supposed to. No harm, however, in taking extra care over your diet and exercise levels I guess. And enjoy the extra scans!
?Gestational Diabetes is not really a disease. Rather, it is a higher level of blood sugar than average during pregnancy, as determined by a glucose tolerance test (GTT). GD differs from diabetes mellitus in that GD goes away after the baby is born. Diabetes mellitus does not. Many doctors recommend this test for all pregnant women, to be performed between twenty-four & twenty-eight weeks of gestation. The test, unfortunately, is not very reliable. Between fifty and seventy percent of women, if retested, will have a different result than they got from the first test. The best evidence we have says there is no treatment for GD, either with diet or with insulin, that improves the outcomes for mothers or their babies. In short, the anxiety that is often produced by this test simply isn?t worth the information gained from it.?
Quite a good full discussion online here
ION my DH got all teary and scared last night when we were thinking through what questions to ask at the birth centre today when we go for our tour. He's terrified something awful will happen, and I just don't know what to say. I can't promise things will be fine, they might not be ... then I get scared too and that isn't helpful either.
frog you just cheered my up with your tale of super cute mini haribo, although I think it almost made me cry too. I can see today is going to be HARD work!