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    Hi, I'm a newbie, advice please!

    Exercise reduces blood sugar, and illness can raise it. It can be a bit random at times too! It isn't just food you need to think about, but activity too. Oh, and if you skip a meal, your liver dumps a heap of sugar into your blood, so it increases. :roll: If you can manage a walk or something...
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    Hi, I'm a newbie, advice please!

    Hi, I've had 8 babies now, and GD for at least 4 of them. If you are hungry, you need to eat more! I found a low carb diet with lots of protein was very filling, and I didn't feel hungry. A good typical diet was omelette for breakfast, with cheese and onion and mushrooms, then salad with meat or...
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    Diet controlled GD and birth experiences

    I'm an awkward case! I've had a couple of diet controlled pregnancies and one insulin controlled. I've insisted on home-births and my local hospital has a policy written especially for me to do so! :mrgreen: All have been fine. I do not have a cannula. I am not induced. I do not have extra...
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    GD and home birth

    You have the right to give birth wherever you want to. They wrote a new hospital policy for me here because I insisted on a home-birth and was on insulin. :mrgreen: Very interesting to hear of the WHO guidelines. I refused insulin the next pregnancy and did a low carb diet instead - but I did...
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    Metformin & Pregnancy

    Someone here gave me a link to a doctor who suggested 30g carb per main meal and 15g for snacks during pregnancy. Armed with my Collins Gem carb counter book, this did the trick for me. Loads of salads and omlettes and cauliflour/broc instead of spuds later, blood sugars normal and baby fine.
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    Newly diagnosed and need some help please!

    Not washing my hands after eating fruit and before testing sent my reading sky high! If you don't eat for ages, your blood sugar can rise, because your liver delivers glucose into your system. A small snack mid morning and afternoon can help. I tested before each meal and 2 hours afterwards...
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    No insulin this pregnancy!

    Thank you Hana. She is our little "olive shoot" - Chloe Olivia.
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    No insulin this pregnancy!

    I just wanted to let people know that I had my baby girl 5th December, and this time I didn't need insulin. Last pregnancy I needed insulin for the last few months. This was basically down to the advice I found here, pretty much the opposite of the dietician! :lol: What I found helpful: Test...
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    How can I reduce pre-breakfast readings?

    With dawn phenomena, does it indicate the blood sugar is high all night, or is it just a blip in the morning? Should I try to test in the night to find out?
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    Can anyone tell me ?

    According to natural health Dr Mercola (eg see http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... terol.aspx), high cholesterol is best reduced by low grains and sugar diet, and exercise. I don't think eggs have anything to do with our cholesterol levels, except to help reduce them as part of a low...
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    How can I reduce pre-breakfast readings?

    Hmm...exercise - hardly any, I'm afraid. My back isn't in a good state right now which added to my general lazy nature really makes me quite sedentary. I'll try the snack though, and make sure I test at bedtime so I can see what is going on. Thanks Hana!
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    Do prescription drugs affect your BG?

    This is really interesting. I wonder why with the glucose tolerance test, I'm typically asked to turn up at 10am for the fasting test, having run myself silly for a few hours to sort the kids out etc first! It must alter the reading a lot from what it would have been when I rolled out of bed.
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    How can I reduce pre-breakfast readings?

    I'm about 30 weeks pregnant and want to avoid insulin this pregnancy. I've been having high readings before breakfast for the last week or two and want to bring them down. My recent HbA1c was 5.3, and a low carb diet seems to be working for me otherwise. I know that if I phone in results of 6.6...
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    I'm back!

    I've just had an HbA1c of 5.3, at 28 weeks, so I'm well pleased! I'm still hoping to avoid insulin - but I'm getting a bit sick of salads and omlettes.
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    Have I got Gestational diabetes again?

    Did they sort you out at the appointment? I'm really surprised you've had all this trouble. I had strict instructions to turn up to the diabetic pregnancy clinic the first week after a positive pregnancy test, having had it before.
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    Will baby get Diabetes when older?

    I've had gestational diabetes the last few pregnancies, and now my Dad has been diagnosed with type 2, although he has managed to lose a little weight and get back into normal results. I believe type 2 can run in families, but I do wonder how much of that might be due to having the same...
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    Snack ideas please (and hello!)

    You can get meaty snacks from supermarket which are nice - flavoured chicken bits and the like, or pepperami etc. I also snack on cheese. Otherwise a single cream cracker with peanut butter worked wonders during the first trimester for me! Otherwise like hanadr said, veggie bits (with a nice dip).
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    Advice desperately needed

    Oh you poor thing. The gestational diabetes thing had me in a real tizzy when I first got it and it was not my first baby either, which in itself is new and daunting. Make sure you see the community midwife if she is nice, as well as the clinic. I find the community midwives make me feel as if...
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    I'm back!

    Thank you! :mrgreen: You would have thought we had learnt by now. :roll: Maybe we'll have to watch more TV after this next baby, or something. (This is baby number seven by the way!) The cricket bat juice doesn't seem to have done much to help, going by my results after a couple of bits of...
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    LOW CARB CHOCOLATE BROWNIES

    Wow - I'm a happy bunny having found this! Going to try this as soon as I can get my hands on the ground almonds!