Possible new GD guidelines?

[ScootchsMom]

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Anyone have a link to the actual study? What do you all think?

Liz

[courtenay_e]

Great. Now they'll just lable us ALLL GD to get it over with more quickly. HECK, it'll save the insurance co's money 'cause they don'thave to do the tests. *sigh* perhaps there's a good reason they couldn't find a "safe" lower limit?...

[ScootchsMom]

That was exactly my thought....Now everyone will be either dignosed as GD or "borderline" and it will no longer be a rare complication, but instead a dangerous symptom of the already flawed process of pregnancy in almost all women. Cause as we all know, the human race has survived solely because MDs have taken over "dangerous" birth.

Liz

[Jane]

I mean, isn't that an obvious conclusion. Women whose bodies allow their blood sugar to remain elevated longer after a sugar dump, tend to have bigger babies. Duh. They have more raw materials to grow with. That's why glucose metabolism changes in pregnancy, elevated glucose time over non-pregnant is good! It allows the baby to get sugar.
There has to be a reason why some women consistently grow 6 pounders and some grow 9 pounders - all on an adequate diet - maybe it's how fast the blood sugar is scavenged from the bloodstream.
I disagree that that bigger babies = complications seen in the study. That conclusion has too many confounders.

[Reha]

Originally Posted by Apricot

I disagree that that bigger babies = complications seen in the study. That conclusion has too many confounders.

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The link between blood sugar levels and a higher c-sect rate to me is crazy, as I think women with ALL sized babies are having a higher c-sect rate right now (well, at least in my area they are) regardless of blood sugar levels or size of baby. :

[junamoss]

I think we as a population are so unhealthy (me included) and we are overfeeding our babies. I cuddled with a 12.5 pounder last night at work. His mom was grossly obese but tested neg. for gest. diabetes. She gained 50 lbs in pregnancy and her other child was a 7 lb'der. I think it was a later onset elevated sugar. She needed diet control and nutritional counselling that you just don't get at the ob office. With my midwife we were diligent in diet control and information. Her ob probably did just the minimum, not addressing her obesity. And she was a section, of course, but the baby's glucose was okay, and she nursed and it came right up.