frankie b asked:


I’m just wondering if anyone has a story about their health and the health of their baby after delivering with gestational diabetes. Right now, my blood sugar is in the normal range throughout the day as I’m taking 2.5 mg of glyburide first thing in the morning, but the only problem is the very high blood sugar first thing in the morning (after fasting). My high-risk doc says that the high fasting level can cause the baby to grow big. I’m having a second c-section anyway, but obviously this isn’t a good thing, regardless of whether I’m having natural or surgical birth! I’ve heard the baby loses weight over the first few days of life is he is really big. but how big is really big? 10 pounds? Anybody told they were having a baby over 10 pounds and then didn’t? Any stories appreciated – might help me prepare for it a little better, I’m worried. I hope he doesn’t need an intravenous glucose drip! Thanks anyone that has something to add…
Thanks for answering – my husband was also a 10 pound baby and my doctor said they weren’t testing for GD back in the 70’s, and she most likely had it. I don’t necessarily agree there, since it’s possible to have a big baby without GD from what I’ve heard – but you never know.

No I don’t know what my HbA1C is measuring. All I know is that I go to bed and it’s about 110 or so, and I wake up and it’s 140, 145 sometimes. But not always – I’ll sometimes have a nice low reading in the morning.

I might ask about using long-acting insulin before bed having read what you’ve said – one would think that the doctor would immediately prescribe something like that having seen my results, but it can’t hurt to bring it up with him…

I find that eating before bed ALWAYS makes the blood sugar higher in the morning. I’m better off if I don’t, based on my experiments.

I’m 34 weeks, and due on Nov 28th. At my last ultrasound the baby was measuring 1 week too big..
oh and my before-bed snacks are always cheese and turkey, cottage cheese, natural yoghurt – never any carbs at all. i was doing the peanut butter on crackers route but that just left me with 140-150 blood sugar by 7 am. i still find that with protein snacks my blood sugar can be high. i think the lowest morning reading I’ve ever had is 105.