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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:59 again.

I also meant to say re: "GD being the mom's fault", I have a hard time believing that Whitney, who has been a midwife for a long time for a lot of women, would actually believe that. I know she thinks that their dietary guidelines will result in the healthiest pregnancy possible, but I also doubt that she believes any deviation from this diet will result in GD.

I do think it's possible that in individual cases, it is possible that a particular woman is not managing her diet the way Whitney would like. When I was pregnant with my first, I ate a lot of gelato. I also ate a lot of shitty carbs. I slacked big time on green leafy vegetables. My sugars were pretty high as a result, though not so high that I needed to get the 3 hour test. Some women eat better than others. Some things you eat can have adverse effects on your health and one of those things is GD. So while I don't think that it's "the woman's fault" that she had GD, I think there are also times when better attention to diet could have prevented it. [/quote]

PP who had GD with Wisdom and was not risked out.  You don't want to believe that she thinks that because it's a bit outrageous, and yet she does (and I have confirmation that she believes this from a source beyond my personal conversation with her).  I will say it one last time -- I followed their diet to the letter.  Maybe there are some cases where better diet could have prevented GD, but mine was not one of those cases (unless following their diet somehow leads one to GD).  To treat all women with GD as if it is their fault and this wouldn't have happened to them if they had just tried harder when they have been doing their damnedest to follow the stupid diet is demoralizing and patronizing.  I cried all day that day thinking it was my fault somehow.  IMO it's not OK to treat all women with GD as failures and accuse them of not being sufficiently diligent just because some may not be.  It's over the top.

I honestly hope my previous experience was an anomaly, but I don't think it is.[/quote]

I totally agree that that's a shitty way to treat someone, regardless of how the GD manifested. But you also need look no further than this board to know that there are people who actively advocate saying that you followed the diet even when you didn't and never intended to. I'm sorry she was a jerk to you and I hope your subsequent experiences are better.

Out of curiosity, have you (or any of the former clients with complaints) actually talked to Whitney about your concerns? What was the result of that conversation, if so. If not, why not?[/quote]

This is the PP you quoted.  I have not spoken to Whitney about it, but I have discussed it with one of the other midwives.[/quote]

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