Gestational diabetes

[zephyrcat]

Can anyone please tell me the symptoms and the cause?

hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/diabetes_in_pregnancy.html

hope this helps

This is going to sound rather unhelpful, but there are often no symptoms at all (my GD was a complete surprise to me) and the cause is usually either hereditary or just plain bad luck - it's certainly not caused by eating too much sugar.

Thank you

That's exactly what I was wondering. I've been living on sugary crap during this pregnancy and for the life of me I cannot stay awake. I know that the fact I'm eating crap won't help but I mean excessively tired so was looking for all possibilities. My wonderful gp merely said "Well you have 3 children, what do you expect?"!

I was addicted to those rainbow drops with dd couldn't understand how I never had GD! although do wonder if I did have it late on with her being the size she was!