GD diagnosis @26 weeks

Failed my GTT with a fasting level of 5.2. (Target <5.1) Post one hour and two hour readings were fine.

Had to start monitoring bloods x7 times daily now since Friday and I am already struggling. All morning bloods are higher than targets and I just had my first pre-meal high too after a weekend away for my MIL’s birthday where I had no control over cooking. All post meals are fine.

Have my first diabetes clinic now on Tuesday and feel they will just look at my readings and put me straight on every medication and intervention possible.

I just feel so down to what this may mean for birth.

My first wasn’t the most straightforward, although she was a natural birth with episiotomy, it was a very very long painful labour, and not an experience I want to repeat.

Now the possibility of early induction or c-section looms and I hate the idea of it.

I have been struggling to bond with this baby ever since I found out I was pregnant and still don’t feel any different. (Unplanned)

Now the GD on top is just making it all worse.

13 more weeks of watching every mouthful I eat and being utterly miserable.