Maria Aviles: Do you know that Gestational Diabetes affects approximately 4% of pregnant women and it indicates a risk for developing Diabetes later in life.
Do all women get tested for Gestational Diabetes or do you wait until there some type of warning signs and then do the testing?
Sally Parker: The normal in most practices is that most people are tested at 28 weeks.
Heather Price: I apparently failed my 1 hour test and they went back again and had me do a 3 hour test which is you know, a normal procedure. I pass that one but I guess I was a little high on the Glucose there and they made me take another one and the second one I failed, again. So that meant that I had Gestational Diabetes and from there I had to go to classes and that was with my first pregnancy with Dartanion (ph).
Health Care Practitioners have told me, since I have had Gestational Diabetes twice that I have a much higher risk of getting it later on meaning normal people don't have like 50% but I have it my family history and I have already had it. So I have like 75% chance or higher of having it later on.
Maria Aviles: How does Gestational Diabetes affect the baby growing inside of mother?
Sally Parker: If the Diabetes is uncontrolled, if the Blood-Sugar is at high than the mother's blood stream, then the baby's can grow quite large and then that will end up with the difficult birth.
Heather Price: The Health Care Practitioner whenever I was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes, sent me to a class and in the class there's a nurse who explain exactly what the result of not paying attention to diet and exercise with Gestational Diabetes and what can happen is while the baby is in utero, his abdomen and head can enlarge because all the sugar get sucked out of the blood.
Basically all the nutrient for the baby comes out of the blood and that's where the sugar is and it would go to him first. Thank you, honey!
Female Speaker: You're welcome!
Heather Price: All the sugar and all that everything goes to the baby first. So the Liver basically shuts down and he would be huge.
And luckily he was born a month early Sebastian and was 7 pounds 10 ounce or so. So, if we would have kept in there, he probably would be a little bull's wagon. Exercise is wise for the diabetic is everyday, I had to exercise every day for at least 20 minutes and wanted to keep things moving where they should.
Of course from the first one I had some pregnancy tapes that helped you know, pregnant mom exercising, Leisa Hart was really good pregnancy video that I used, and that would break the sentiments up because you have to so careful whenever you're pregnant, do the correct exercise, however you still have to do it.
My Nurse suggested that I walk a lot but being as I was working fulltime and had two others it was kind of difficult. So, I would do 20 minutes, 10 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes in the evening.
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