30 weeks pregnant and having 3 hour gestational diabetes test tomorrow?
Monday, August 31st, 2009 at
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Take a book with you. The GTTs are SO boring.
30 week appointment: check weight, blood pressure, often test urine, measure fundal height.
If you do have GD, they should send you to a dietician who specializes in GD, and also send you to a GD specialist who will monitor your glucose levels and decide if you need insulin or not.
The first step is to modify your diet into a diabetic diet, and then to test your blood sugar levels with a home tester. This involves pricking your finger and testing a tiny amount of blood. If your sugars stay within the recommended range with diet changes alone, then you will just continue like this for the rest of the pregnancy.
If your sugars keep getting too high even with the diet, then you may be moved onto insulin. Your blood sugar levels still need to be monitored.
There’s a lot of info that you have to take in if you’re diabetic, it can be stressful and overwhelming. And a lot of women blame themselves. It’s not your fault, it’s just something that happens because of the hormones. Just do your best to manage it.
They shouldn’t need to scan you just because of a positive GTT, and the scan at 34 weeks should give a good indication of whether or not the baby is ‘too big.’ They may scan you again as you get closer to your D.D.
http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Living-with-Diabetes/Gestational-Diabetes/
Its a normal routine test. I had gestational diabetes with my son.
If you do have it… Then you will be put on a special diet.
If you don’t maintain this diet then you will likely have to take shots or pills. I had to stick my finger 5 times a day.. It was painful..
It’s really not that big of a deal if you maintain your diet.
Forgot something… That drink may make you feel sick..
Whatever you do.. Don’t get sick because they will have to start the test over again.. It could take all day. Keep that drink down no matter what.
The one hour test.. I failed it too. You may not be diabetic though.
My neice failed the hour test but past the 3 hour test.
They will make you drink that orange crap every hour and then draw blood.. Tell them to not use the same hole they used the first time or second. The 3rd time I made them take it out of my hand.
I didn’t have to take insulin.. I maintained my diet.
Good luck
if you have GD you will probably have to do blood sugar testing at home, eat a special diet, the doc will closely monitor the fetal growth because they tend to be larger. and you MAY need to take insulin. At 38 -39 weeks you may have to have an induction because of the babies size, you will have a greater likelihood of a csection. there is a whole list of things to monitor. i suggest looking into a book so you can manage the problem better. and childbirth book should have information on this. i have read quite a few.
I took the 1 and 3 hour ones also.
For me, the 1 hour drink was a lemon-lime flavor and I didn’t find it that bad. The 3 hour drink was orange and it was soooo sweet! I actually got sick onthe way to the test, (not morning sickness, I think it was because I was so hungry and up so early in the morning!) and was praying I wouldn’t throw up again at the lab, because then I’d have to repeat it! Luckily I was fine!
Basically they take your blood before you do anything, then they make you drink the icky drink, then every hour for three hours they re-take your blood and you’re free to go!
It wasn’t too bad, I was just feeling nauseas so I sat with my head inbetween my legs most the time!
Definitly bring something to do!
And if you do have gestational diabetes, they’ll probably refer you to a nutritionist and give you a blood glucose monitor and make you keep a record of your glucose levels. You’ll have to talk to your dr. about what else they’ll do because it all depends on the severity of your diabetes.
I was told my glucose was really really high, but thye gave me the glucose monitor and every single one of my test strips has said i’m actually in the perfect range. I go back on 4/3, so I’ll probably find out what their plan is then. Before, they thought I had a severe case and were talking about inducing me at 39 weeks, and having more frequent visits. Now I’m not sure what’s going to happen.
FIrst off…relax. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes at 24 weeks. They tried to stabilize it with diet…but I couldn’t. I had to have insulin 4x a day. Made me feel a whole lot better and not fuzzy, my son was breech so I had a c-section at 40 weeks, and he was s perfect 8.88lbs. They may do another u;trasound, and when they do you need to tell them about teh diabetes.