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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smallbrit" data-source="post: 1920327" data-attributes="member: 456748">Just a note to be careful about which fruits you eat - some have very high sugar contents, especially bananas. A good visual reference guide for comparison is:<a href="https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits" target="_blank">https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits</a> I had very bad gestational diabetes, and the nutritionist banned bananas from what I ate and told me to only eat small apples (I lived in the US at the time and the US has monster-size apples) and always with cheese or something.For my second pregnancy, I followed the guidelines the nutritionist gave me from when I found out I was pregnant, and my sugars always measured within normal range, but I was monitored very closely by midwives, having weekly appointments past 28 weeks. At 35 weeks, one midwife said I could let up on the diet a little bit - have a glass of milk, maybe a banana. At 36 weeks, a different midwife shouted at me that I'd eaten a banana and despite everything I shouldn't forget that I still had diabetes and I was putting my baby at risk...!So a diet of lots of bananas is not a good thing.I'm the daughter of woman who was told not to have a baby because she was (in order of importance at that time) 1. deaf. 2. ancient (age 40...!). 3. insulin-dependent diabetic. I'm pretty thrilled she chose to ignore her doctors' advice. Particularly because I think all three points are not good reasons now, and they were probably not 41 years ago either, despite what medical professionals believed then.</blockquote>

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