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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had it with my second pregnancy (may have it with my third - too early to tell). I’m thin and active, so it was a surprise. I was able to manage with diet and exercise. What I did:

1. Test your blood sugar as directed
2. Find a food you can eat before bed to keep your fasting blood sugar in a good range (for me it was cheese)
3. Combined protein and carbs and are a lot of protein
4. Walked for at least 20 minutes after each meal
5. Walked for 80 minutes “just as exercise” in addition to # 4
6. Didn’t eat sugar or sweets that had more than 15g of carbs (so like one little ice cream sandwich) 
7. Drank as much water as I could 
8. Tried not to stress 
9. Tried to get as much sleep as possible
10. Accept that it really sucks

I found GD to be very stressful (I was scared about my blood sugar being high all the time) and I struggled with getting bored with foods that “worked” because I ate them all the time. The only upside is that it’s usually only 12 weeks of living with it and it’s impossible to gain a ton of weight.

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Forgot to say that DC2’s numbers were off immediately following birth (my blood sugar plummeted during labor and baby had a lot of fluid in lungs because of how quickly the birth was so didn’t want to nurse). Outside of the initial number being off, numbers in the hospital were good. I breastfed and supplanted in the hospital because baby had a real aversion to sucking for the first 24 or so hours because of having fluid suctioned from lungs (may have been different otherwise). I EBF with both kids, but so do not have an ego about supplementing in a situation like that. Just prepare yourself for that initial reading being lower right after birth and potentially needing to supplement while baby is in hospital and your milk is coming in - just to make sure blood sugars are good and baby stays out of NICU.
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