Gestational diabetes?

Question

Who had gestational diabetes while pregnant? How can lower my chances of getting it? Is eat snacks gonna make me get it? I haven't really been craving hun food.. cookies and cake and all that make me sick just looking at them.. iv basically been eating chips, fries, tacos, wedgies.. I usually never drank pop when I wasn't pregnant.. but lately iv been wanting it but only drink 1 or 2 every a week weeks and a half, when I do its caffeine free.

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Nothing you can do to stop GD. Even the healthiest, skinniest women get it.

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There’s nothing you can do to prevent it and it doesn’t discriminate based on your diet/body type, etc...  I had it and as long as you follow your drs orders it’s nothing major.

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I did not, but I also went to school for lab sciences. There is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent it. If you have it, you have it. It has everything to do with the placenta. The placenta sends out hormones that block or inhibit insulin from properly binding to glucose. You need glucose to enter the cells, and glucose needs insulin to do this. Instead, the glucose stays elevated into the bloodstream. The good news is GD mostly can be managed by diet, however some need medication and insulin. If you do have it, you will meet with a dietician and diabetes instructor/coordinator to help you manage it. Generally, you will be watching your carb and sugar intake. Once the placenta is delivered, most women return back to normal (normal blood sugars). Generally if it does not, it’s because you were diabetic before becoming pregnant and didn’t know it. Just an FYI, GD does put you at higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes later though.

Gestational diabetes?

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