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My fiancee and I are considering a second child, not for a few years, but we are talking about it...and we came to a bit of an argument. I'm hoping someone in here has experience in this issue!
With my daughter I had gestational diabetes. It was bad enough I needed to regulate it with insulin injected into my sides three times a day. In the start of my pregnancy I drank ALOT of apple juice. Just couldn't get enough. Then when I was diagnosed I was no longer allowed any fruit juices.
So here's the argument. I think that if I get pregnant again I will get the diabetes again. My fiancee thinks if I stop eating any sugar as soon as I find out I'm pregnant then I won't. He thinks that the apple juice in the begginning of our first had some sort of an effect. Any one had two pregnancy's and gotten it once and not the second time? Or both times? And if so, was it just as severe?
I could probably google it and get a thousand links, but I wanted some real life experiences first instead of boring, drawn out, probably outdated medical mumbo jumbo...
Thanks!
With my daughter I had gestational diabetes. It was bad enough I needed to regulate it with insulin injected into my sides three times a day. In the start of my pregnancy I drank ALOT of apple juice. Just couldn't get enough. Then when I was diagnosed I was no longer allowed any fruit juices.
So here's the argument. I think that if I get pregnant again I will get the diabetes again. My fiancee thinks if I stop eating any sugar as soon as I find out I'm pregnant then I won't. He thinks that the apple juice in the begginning of our first had some sort of an effect. Any one had two pregnancy's and gotten it once and not the second time? Or both times? And if so, was it just as severe?
I could probably google it and get a thousand links, but I wanted some real life experiences first instead of boring, drawn out, probably outdated medical mumbo jumbo...
Thanks!
2 of my SIL's both had GD. The first one (my brothers wife) did NOT have it with her first pregnancy but DID have it with her second and third. My Other SIL(my husbands brothers wife) had it with her FIRST pregnancy but NOT with her second. I also had it...but I've only had one baby so I dont know if I will get it again.
I know my brothers wife got tested very early on in her third pregnancy just because she knew the signs and the feelings. She felt much better once she was following the diet and keeping track of her sugars. She did have to take an oral insulin with the 3rd pregnancy.
So basically....you could get it again, but it would have nothing to do with what you put into your body. You cant cause it by what you ingest. But you could get lucky and not get it....thats kind of a crap shoot I think. Did any of that make sence??? lol Its late and I could be writing a whole bunch of mumbo jumbo....haha