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sublizzie -> RE: Gestational Diabetes (6/10/2006 10:13:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: NakedOnMyChain
The doctor said her biggest concern was not that I would have a large baby, but more for the immediate respiratory problems he will have when he is born. I didn't completely understand the reasoning for the respiratory problems that babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have. She explained it to me, and apparently when my body dumps all the sugar it can't process a large part of it goes to Aiden. He, therefore, develops a sugar addiction. When he is born he goes through immediate withdrawal, hence the respiratory arrest. That scares me.
I probably had gestational diabetes with my firstborn but that was so long ago they didn't test for it. With my second I was tested and diagnosed with GD. Given her age, (she's 21), they didn't have the nice meters for diabetics that they do now. I watched my diet and did my best. Both of my chicklets were well over 10 pounds when they were born, but my ex's family birthed big babies so it was genetic on their father's side of the family. (IMO *he* should have been the one carrying them around.) They were also very past due. The youngest ended up in intermediate neonatal ICU but only for 12 hours.
As I said, she's now 21. She's 6 foot tall, weighs 300 lb and played offensive-defensive guard on the boy's football team in high school. She's got some serious muscles! I don't think she's been hurt by what happened. If she was, my medical team and I did the best we could with what we had available to us at the time.
You'll be fine and so will Aiden. Medicine has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past 20 years!
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