Had the glucose tolerance test talk... - Page 2

[Momma Aimee]

thanks for the links

AWSOME

I will talk to OB tomorrow and ask if I can do that instead.....

AImee

[LittleBrownDog]

Originally Posted by monocyte

I think its more like 18,

Well.... can I eat 100 anyway?

[monocyte]

Originally Posted by Aimee21972

couldn't eating actually mess up the results -- give you more carbs than indended -- or even just effect the results.....

like my Ped told not to wait on teh PUK test cuz the results are graded based on a new born and if the child was older the results could come back as abnormal when they weren't cuz of the "grading system"

wouldn't eating effect the GTT test the same???

AImee

With 2 degrees in medical lab science, I can say with certainty...yes.

[monocyte]

Originally Posted by LittleBrownDog

Well.... can I eat 100 anyway?

Whatever floats your boat,

[GinaRae]

Originally Posted by monocyte

I kind of see it as invasive and harmful, straight sugar equal to 4 candy bars on an empty stomach while pregnant!?

I wouldn't do that to me in real life, let alone while preg with a growing baby. To me its just not a reasonable test - never would I load my body that full so why do it? I'm not so sure it has no effect on the baby either. That much sugar makes me shake, so how can it not make the baby a bit off either? The thought of it makes me green. I puked it all up with ds, and had to do a repeat...which I only got a few oz down.

I totally agree here. If I fast, I feel terrible. Then this huge load of sugar, then more waiting. Sick, sick, sick and just not natural. i cannot see how it could possibly be healthy.

I am not getting the test done and instead we're lightly monitoring by having me eat a good breakfast, report what I ate and when, then have my blood sugar tested at the midwives at each appointment. If they see any changes or symptoms of GD, we'll work on that.

I do have diabetes in my family and I am a big girl, so I am at risk. Still, they don't seem worried, but do seem proactive by monitoring my diet, symptoms and BS (that's blood sugar, not my other BS )

Someone mentioned their hubby wanting it done. To heck with that! I would fight this one. But it IS something personal to decide.. we have to pick our battles with partners and caregivers

[Momma Aimee]

i guess my diet just SUCKS that much compared to the rest .......

50 grams of sugar is not that much to me : : :

I do not liek the FASTING part of it -- and my be sick and dizzy from THAT .... but the equvilant of 4 candy bars is not really THAT much over what i might actually consume : : : : :

bad aimee

bad aimee

But I am glad that thoese of you choosing not to take the test are getting support and respect ... we did not do it iwth Theo

Someone mentioned their hubby wanting it done. To heck with that! I would fight this one. But it IS something personal to decide.. we have to pick our battles with partners and caregivers

Also i can totally see doing SOME things just for DH or DP .... this is BOTH of our child, and he stands to loose eveything if he ever lost me... so IMO (and i know it is not always shared here on MDC, though i don't think it is too much of a fight in theis DDC) he DOES get a say in the pregancy and birth........my body, but our baby, and in a small extent my body is not mine alone when if i loose it DH looses more than i do -- IYKWIM???

so I do give weight to his thoughts and oniopns and wants for pregancy care, and labor and birth.

This is not -- IMO -- turning things over to him and letting him call all the shots, but it is respecting that we are in this togeher and we both stand to loose if things go badly ....... and thus we have have a responiblity and a vaid right to an opinion.



Aimee