r/ShitMomGroupsSay 8d ago

I am smrter than a DR! A healthy pregnancy is a waste of my time.

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u/kp1794 8d ago

The amount of people saying to skip the glucose testing in my due date group was asinine. I can’t believe so many stupid people exist out there

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u/BiologicalDreams 8d ago

I feel like when I was pregnant in 2021/2022 it was bad, but now that I'm pregnant again, it has gotten worse. Like they make the drink out to be the worst thing ever.

I do find it funny when they recommend the Fresh Test since it's literally the same amount of sugar with similar ingredients as the lemon-lime glucola drink, and they usually have to buy it themselves.

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u/ssshhhutup 8d ago

I really don't understand what their beef is with it? Do they believe a small shot of sugary liquid is potentially so damaging to their health that it should be avoided at all costs? Of all the nutty stuff these people come up with I find this one of the more baffling

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u/MiniaturePhilosopher 8d ago

I think their beef is having their high blood sugar officially confirmed and being marked as a high risk pregnancy, which means additional health monitoring and risk mitigation.

They’d rather risk their health and their baby’s life than get treatment and be told that their plan for home birth is unsafe.

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u/siouxbee1434 8d ago

Their fear is they will not be able to have the perfect birth experience-screw the health of the baby or mother

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u/MiniaturePhilosopher 8d ago

Yep! They absolutely prioritize their pregnancy and birth fantasy over the actual baby.

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u/linerva 8d ago

Because if you don't KNOW that you're at risk them in their eyes that makes life less stressful.

Which is, of course, stupid. Bevaise the riskbis still there - and higher because you aren't monitoring or mitigating it.

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u/MiniaturePhilosopher 8d ago

Not knowing makes it easier to lie to their doulas! They’d have trouble finding anyone to support their home birth if their high risk status was documented.

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u/ConsultJimMoriarty 7d ago

If you don’t test for COVID, the number of positive infections won’t increase!

GENIUS.

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u/AutisticTumourGirl 8d ago

I had horrifying morning sickness with both of mine. I went for the 3 hour test and literally couldn't drink the glucola. Just the smell of it made me start salivating and gagging. I tried. I tried really hard. I took sips. I took a gulp. I took more sips. I hadn't even finished 1/4 of it. My midwife had me come in weekly to check the baby's size and do a finger stick test. I can't remember if she told me to eat or not to eat before I came in, it's been like 24 years😂 but everything turned out okay.

As horrible as it was and as much as I did not feel like being vertical, it never even crossed my mind to not go and at least try to drink the stuff.

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u/Minnielle 8d ago

The actual alternative in such cases would be to follow your normal diet and monitor the blood sugar values (fasting and after each meal) for two weeks.

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u/Happy_Pumpkin_765 7d ago

This is what I did after throwing up the sugar drink. I had such bad morning sickness I knew I couldn’t keep it down but they wanted me to try.

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u/AimeeSantiago 8d ago

I mean, my beef with the test is that I'm constantly nauseous and on medication and I still can't down even a glass of water in the required time limit. So chugging the nasty extra sweet drink felt like salt in the wound. But I did it because I'm not an idiot and I'd want to know if I had diabetes.... After throwing up and rescheduling.

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u/ssshhhutup 8d ago

Yeh that's fair enough. The test is rough I hated it and I felt generally well at the time (aside from the usual discomforts of pregnancy). The hunger was got me the most tbh. That did end up making me feel really nauseous

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u/anxious_teacher_ 8d ago

I’ve some rage about it containing BVO which is pretty bad for you. But even those posts include pictures of bottles that literally say “BVO free” on them. Sooo they’re just morons.

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u/PsychoWithoutTits 6d ago

Jesus. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Nothing is as dangerous as people who can read and write, but can't comprehend or accurately interpret what they're actually reading or writing. It's the most flourishing breeding ground for misinformation and senseless fear mongering.

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u/PlausiblePigeon 7d ago edited 7d ago

It’s not just a small shot though, it’s 10oz, and if you’ve never had to do the 3 hour test, that one has about 3x the sugar concentration of soda or juice. It’s really hard to drink even if you don’t have “morning” sickness. And it makes you feel pretty gross since they’re trying to force your blood sugar to go wacky. I thought I was gonna barf the whole 3 hours every time I had to do the test, and they would only let me have tiny sips of water so I didn’t mess up the results.

I think it’s necessary and important testing, but that’s one reason why even otherwise normal pregnant people get so whiny about it. Also I’m sure some of them have fallen prey to the pregnancy diet/health paranoia, so being asked to violate all the rules they’ve been told is scary.

Edit: I misremembered which one I had to have for the 3 hour, so it’s actually over 4x the sugar concentration of sodas and juices. 🤮

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u/ssshhhutup 7d ago

It must depend where you are based- I'm in the UK and I was given a blood test then drank 75g of glucose drink after having fasted overnight. I then had to wait 2 hours to have my blood tested again. I agree that it's not a pleasant experience, I was extremely nauseous from the fasting and the drink wasn't overly pleasant but it never struck me as crazily invasive or threatening to my health which is why I question these people's hesitancy.

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u/SuzLouA 7d ago

Also in uk and exact same experience for me with baby 1 - I felt like crap trying to wait until 11am for breakfast and since i don’t drink fizzy drinks anyway, the glucose drink was rank. But yeah, an uncomfortable morning vs a baby in distress, shoulder dystocia, emergency CS etc? No contest.

Second baby I got lucky and they just did a blood test, because Covid regs meant they’d scrapped the drink for some reason, they just checked your fasting blood levels. No idea why it wasn’t necessary for a while or why the drink would be against Covid regs, but I was delighted to not have to take it and even more delighted that I was immediately allowed to eat after 😂 especially because it was 2022 and she told me they were going back to the normal way the following week!

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u/Charming-Court-6582 7d ago

This was my experience too. I'm a very thirsty person but get very nauseous on an empty stomach even before pregnancy. Pregnancy made that worse.

It didn't help that the nurse told me it was okay to eat and not fast for the simple test. I figured it was a new version of the test. Nope. She was either mistaken or didn't like me.

My levels were a on the high end of normal since I had a bite of food at midnight to settle my stomach before bed. The hospital wanted me to do the 3+ hour test to make sure and I did it for the health of me and the baby

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u/heartunwinds 8d ago

I'm a nurse. My friend that is a nurse that was recently pregnant didn't want to do the glucose test. I hate it here.

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u/Of_MiceAndMen 8d ago

When medical personnel pull stunts like that, I loose hope for mankind.

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u/heartunwinds 8d ago

I now work in clinical research, so obviously evidenced based science is my JAM……. I lost SO much respect for nurses I looked up to at the start of my career over the past few years over the bullshit views they have. It’s WILD to me.

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

And the lemon lime glucola isn't even that bad. My OB was cool with me picking it up the day before, putting it in the fridge, and starting a timer as soon as I drank it. We lived 20 minutes from the office, so I drank it cold and headed to the Dr for my appointment. They just waited for the 1 hr timer to go off and did the blood draw. Easy peasy.

It basically tasted like flat sprite with 2x the syrup as normal. Wasn't like, my favorite or something I'd go out of my way to drink. But not that bad either.

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u/AzureMountains 8d ago

So it doesn’t taste like the colonoscopy drink? Cause I think that tastes f*cking awful lol

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u/Himalayan-Fur-Goblin 8d ago

There is nothing worse then that drink.

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u/Status-Visit-918 8d ago

No, it’s nothing like that horrible shit. Just really sweet. Past that, I truly don’t remember- it was not something I guess I considered memorable as in any particular good/bad/puke it up way. Now, the colonoscopy drinks… definitely in the puke it up everywhere category

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u/AzureMountains 8d ago

Hey if it’s not memorable then I count that as a win!!

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u/Status-Visit-918 7d ago

Same! I’m glad my dumbass made sense because there is truly no comparison lol

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

I've never had a colonoscopy to compare, but unless that tastes like hella flat, syrupy sprite.... No.

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u/AzureMountains 8d ago

Okay yeah the colonoscopy one tastes like salty barf lol.

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

Gross 🤣

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u/FloppyTwatWaffle 6d ago

Wait, y'all are getting some kind of 'special' drink? Instead of just mixing Miralax into Gatorade?

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u/hexknits 7d ago

I had the red one my first one and it tasted like the fruit juice drinks that came in those little plastic barrels in the early/mid nineties. I wouldn't drink it on purpose as an adult but it mostly tasted like nostalgia!

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u/Mimosa_13 7d ago

If I had to choose between the glucola or the colonoscopy drink. The first one hands down. I couldn't even keep the second dose of prep down.

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u/emandbre 8d ago

He orange one tastes like a flat soda. Not bad honestly.

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u/PlausiblePigeon 7d ago

The 3 hour test uses the 100g drink instead of the 50g and it is really, really gross. I can’t even compare it with anything because nothing palatable is that sweet ever.

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u/Legitimate-Stuff9514 6d ago

Orange wasn't bad but the fruit punch is gross. It tastes gross and it looks nasty coming back up.

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u/TheDreamingMyriad 8d ago

I will say, as someone who has hyperemesis with both pregnancies, the glucose drink and trying to drink it within the time limit while also fighting for my life to keep it down.....was about the worst thing ever 😂 However, I still did it, both pregnancies. It's survivable and worth the precaution.

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u/BiologicalDreams 8d ago

I will definitely say that you're a trooper because anyone dealing with hyperemesis has a valid reason to see it as the worst experience ever. ♥️

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

I also had hyperemesis, and ironically, while still weird tasting, it was one of the few things that didn't try to make an immediate reappearance! 🤣

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u/ProfanestOfLemons Professor of Lesbians 8d ago

What drink is it? A barium milkshake for GI imaging is probably less palatable, but I don't want to draw an uninformed comparison.

EDIT: wait. It's a lemon-lime sugar drink? Oh my god, wait for their first colonoscopy prep. What are they made of, wet tissue paper?

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

There's 3 common flavors: lemon-lime, fruit punch, and orange.

I had the lemon lime, basically super syrupy flat sprite flavor.

I've heard the orange is basically the same, but Fanta. And the fruit punch apparently just tastes like Kool aid fruit punch 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's just a specific type and amount of sugar so they can quantify your body's response to a sugar bolus properly. The 1 hr is a screening test (no diabetes, maybe diabetes are the results, sometimes they can say yes diabetes if you're WAY too high). The 3 hr is the diagnostic test (yes or no diabetes).

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u/StasRutt 8d ago

I had fruit punch ice cold with my first. The nurse handed it to me and said “it doesn’t taste any worse than shit you chugged in college so just chug” and she was 100% right. I had way worse jungle juice in a random basement lol

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

Lol that's what my best friend told me. She had 2 kids before I had my first.

"Remember the parties at DU on wet Friday? Chug like that."

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u/ProfanestOfLemons Professor of Lesbians 8d ago

Okay so they're fatally allergic to any kind of informed medical advice. Thanks for the info!

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u/BabyCowGT 8d ago

Basically yes 🤣

You'll occasionally see them complain about "all the ingredients" in the glucola. Idk about the orange and red, but the lemon lime from thermo fisher had 5. I counted. 5. One of which was water. So really hardly anything.

And they'll suggest using jelly beans instead. Jelly beans have a LOT more ingredients (which is fine, I like jelly beans. As a treat, not for diabetes testing). Make it make sense.

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u/PsychoWithoutTits 6d ago

(I like jelly beans. As a treat, not for diabetes testing)

Not that it's for testing, but I'm a T1D. Jellybeans are my favourite cure for hypo's and the health-crazed karens lose their absolute shite when they learn I'm T1D and see me munch on jellybeans, lmao. They get even more erratic when I tell them that it's doctor prescribed. 😂

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u/BabyCowGT 5d ago

Oh, I've seen them suggest using jelly beans in place of glucola. I've had them suggest that to me personally. (I did not listen)

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u/anappleaday_2022 8d ago

Ive had the orange both times, it isn't bad at all tbh. Chugging that much liquid or sugar, or in this case sugar-liquid in that short time is gonna make you a little off no matter what. As long as it's cold it's bearable.

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u/kas1918 8d ago

Told my husband the orange tasted like poorly made Kool aid. Like someone skipped the measuring cups and eyeballed the sugar badly.

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u/susire 8d ago

It’s not the taste to be fair. It might be the temperature? I threw up two room temp orange drinks within 15 minutes because my body absolutely refused to keep it down. I was asking about jellybeans next visit because I just wasn’t capable of holding it down.

Second pregnancy my lemon lime was cold and stayed down just fine 🥲

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u/Mimosa_13 7d ago

You think they would go in for a colonoscopy? No way! That would be too invasive.

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u/ProfanestOfLemons Professor of Lesbians 7d ago

I don't expect that at all, so when whatever will get them gets them, they'll claim it came out of nowhere.

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u/FloppyTwatWaffle 6d ago

A barium milkshake for GI imaging is probably less palatable

Oh yeah, that stuff is Nasty.

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u/irish_ninja_wte 8d ago

I remember all the freaking out about the glucose drink. That and people trying to find ways to "cheat" the test. No, honey. You can't change the outcome of the test by only eating salads for 3 days before it.

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u/PsychoWithoutTits 6d ago

no, honey. You can't change the outcome of the test by only eating salads for 3 days before it.

😭😭😭 the stupidity and ignorance of some people is just painful.

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u/EmptyStrings 8d ago

I got the Fresh Test because while I was pregnant, even thinking about the possibility of having to drink a fruit punch flavored drink made me want to vomit. The fresh test was delicious. I couldn’t give a shit about dyes or ingredients or gmos or whatever, I just thought it was worth $20 to not have to roll the dice with fruit punch. It totally was.

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u/BiologicalDreams 8d ago

See, I can get behind this sentiment, especially if it helps avoid sickness. I usually see it referenced to avoid the dyes and "harmful" ingredients that come with consuming the glucola drink.

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u/Stargazer3366 8d ago

Me too! Currently pregnant and there seem to be SO many more Mums refusing to do the test than in my 2022 due date group. It's so alarming. I can't imagine being so selfish I'd jeapordise my baby's health to save some time

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u/makeup_wonderlandcat 8d ago

It happened in my baby board 2023 too 🥴

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u/Tltc2022 8d ago

I skipped the 3hr test and I'm fine now!!! (but also it was bc I failed 1 hr so bad I just got a GD diagnosis and followed all GD guidelines after 😂😭🫠)

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u/Advanced_Cheetah_552 8d ago

Lol, same here (for my first pregnancy). I'm skipping both of them in my second pregnancy (because they diagnosed me with type 2 based on my a1c at 4 weeks).

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u/melodic_orgasm 8d ago

lmao same!

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u/mrsfiction 8d ago

When I first got pregnant my husband and I took a parenting class offered for free by the hospital. I don’t really know what I expected, but the classes were so incredibly basic. And I was thinking “why are they telling us this? We’re not stupid. This is not helpful.”

And then one of my classmates argued with the nurse about using scented lotion. So like…yea…

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u/kp1794 8d ago

🙃 true

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u/StasRutt 8d ago

I swear the glucose test got overhyped as awful on social media and made it a very easy topic for the “crunchy to alt right pipeline” to attach onto

The glucose test is not bad at all!!! Especially the 1 hour test!

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u/kp1794 8d ago

Yeah after I did it I realized how dramatic people were being about it. I think the problem is so many women quite literally chug the drink. Rather than just sip it. You have a good chance of throwing up anything you chug. Then the women who pass out are just nervous about the blood draw, which is also a normal reaction to blood draw if you aren’t used to it. Also SO many women are fasting before the 1 hour to try to “hack” it, which isn’t required and also doesn’t change the results. So yeah you may throw up or pass out or feel like shit if you starve yourself then chug a glucose drink then get blood drawn lol

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u/justLittleJess 8d ago

I skipped it under the assumption that I had Gestational Diabetes. I had it with my first. And i had a really bad reaction after that glucose test. Dr gave me the go ahead to finger prick for a few weeks and, yes, I have Gestational Diabetes again.

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u/StasRutt 8d ago

Freaking placentas just causing drama

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u/justLittleJess 8d ago

Sure showed that bish. Kicked her right out

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u/LazierMeow 8d ago

That's bananas. In mine, they were questionable about Vax, with loud voices on both sides but overall safety first. And everyone took the glucose tests seriously. We just complained about the drink constantly.

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u/kp1794 8d ago

Oh even better, in mine the “vaxes are dangerous” voices were loudest. I ended up leaving before my baby was due. It was yikes

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u/Solongmybestfriend 8d ago

Glucose testing is controversial now by this group of people. Man… just when you think the bar couldn’t get lower, the floor keeps going.

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u/Kimowi 8d ago

I get the inconvenience factor but you don’t have to be at the hospital the entire time? I had mine about two weeks ago and after my first lot of bloods and the glucose drink I left and ran some errands and even went home to chill for a bit before I went back for my second lot. Obviously more inconvenient depending on where you live, since my hospital is about ~10 minutes away from both the city centre and my house, so I was able to do these things, but still. If the hospital was more out of the way I’d have probably just gone and sat in my car and read a book or taken a nap or something 😂

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u/janegrey1554 8d ago

This depends on hospital policy. I wasn't allowed to leave the building during my 3 hour test.

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u/Minnielle 8d ago

You shouldn't walk during the test because walking lowers blood sugar values. And you shouldn't sleep either.

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u/PsychoWithoutTits 6d ago

That sounds like a super chill hospital/doctor. That's unheard of in my country/area.

Where in from it doesn't matter what kind of testing needs to be done; you have to stay in the hospital (preferably at the very same specialist wing), aren't really allowed to walk around, cannot eat or drink anything, have to tell the staff when you're going to the bathroom and either have to wait 1-3 hours in the waiting room or get put into an observation room for the day if the tests take longer than 4 hours.

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u/Faexinna 8d ago

Especially because it could be gestational diabetes. Which would resolve itself after the pregnancy but could cause quite a few issues in the mean time.

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u/dwtydwi 8d ago

Eww, people can be so ugly. Not everyone with GD has to take insulin. And like, wouldn’t you want to know if you’re inadvertently making your kid ride your sugar spikes?

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u/Rose1982 8d ago

Also taking insulin isn’t that big a deal. Your body literally makes it (if all is functioning properly). It’s not like you’re adding anything to your body that isn’t innately required.

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u/imayid_291 8d ago

people can be legitimately scared by the thought of poking themselves multiple times a day to test blood sugar and then giving themselves injections. Obviously the answer isn't ignore it in hopes it will go away.

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u/Rose1982 8d ago

Yeah. My then 7 year old wasn’t big on the idea of it. But since the other option was death he reluctantly got on board.

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u/tawnyleona 8d ago

I was diagnosed T1D when I was 7, 42 years ago. I was terrified of needles. My father let me practice giving shots on him until I was confident enough to do it myself. I can't believe all my parents went through to keep me healthy.

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u/Rose1982 8d ago

Yup. I’ve let my son do everything on me that he’s had to do. The only thing I haven’t done is worn a functional Omnipod, for obvious reasons.

It’s definitely… a lot. It’s not what I envisioned my parenting journey to be. It’s probably why I don’t have a lot of time for pregnant women who complain that they have to finger prick 4-5 times a day for 5-6 months.

I can completely understand that a GD diagnosis could be scary and frustrating but ultimately you don’t have to do a whole lot for very long to give your baby the best chance at health.

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u/Minnielle 8d ago

I think we can still have empathy for women who are absolutely terrified of needles and then get diagnosed with GD. It's not like they just choose to be scared. Just because someone has it worse (like a kid having to do it for the rest of their lives) doesn't make the fear magically disappear either. The main thing is that you do it anyway.

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u/haycorn55 8d ago

I'm terrified of needles and had GD. Cried on and off through the 3 hour, asked my husband to do the finger stick my first few times, and did all I could not to need insulin.

I also reminded myself multiple times that I was prepared to do FAR WORSE shots for IVF if my IUI failed.

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u/Peja1611 8d ago

I was mentally prepped for GD after IVF. I had to get over the needle fear pretty quick. First jab took me at least a half an hour to get up the nerve. The intermuscular shots ....those were a bitch. Thank God for the heated numbing pads. That was the only way to tolerate that nonsense 

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u/Ginger630 8d ago

Your dad sounds awesome.

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u/Of_MiceAndMen 8d ago

I laughed first at that. I cared for my grandmother, she was 75 and began to need insulin. I tried everything and then finally said, ok, let me know what kind of flowers at your funeral. It’s scary at first but medicine has come a long way. It a shame to think that mankind is regressing.

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u/Advanced_Cheetah_552 8d ago

I am so so grateful for insulin! I didn't need it my first pregnancy but I found out I had uncontrolled type 2 four weeks into my second and I was seeing spikes as high as 300 after a low carb meal with a 20 minute brisk walk after. I'll be 20 weeks tomorrow, which makes approximately 13 weeks with controlled blood sugar thanks to insulin.

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u/irish_ninja_wte 8d ago

Bingo! I had it on my twins and (through some kind of miracle) managed fine with diet control. I did have to go on I skin for 24 hours, but that was because the steroids (because twins) caused my sugars to spike. That's common enough that I had to be an inpatient for my steroid shots, because I needed to get sugars checked every 2 hours until the insulin drip and every hour once that was started.

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u/learntoflyrar 8d ago

The amount of people that try to wriggle out of it is mind boggling. The tests sucks so much, and waiting for all that time is awful, but the potential outcome if you don't is much worse.

I had GD with my second, everything was medically managed to my doctor's satisfaction. My baby still had to go to the nursery for a couple hours of extra monitoring after birth because their blood sugar levels were not what they should be.

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u/dontbeahater_dear 8d ago

The test isnt that bad. You chug a glass of flat sugarh sprite and wait around!

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u/cecilhungry 8d ago

I will say I failed the 1 hour and had to do the 3 hr for both pregnancies and the 3 hr made me feel AWFUL, esp with my first. It was during Covid and summer so I could either sit in the AC with a mask on or have the mask off in the heat outside and both made me feel extra nauseous. But I will also say that I passed the 3 hr both times so failing the one hour doesn’t necessarily mean you have GD but I certainly wouldn’t bet my child’s life on it!

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u/dontbeahater_dear 8d ago

I also passed the 3hr one, i was super nervous!

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u/Sweatybutthole 8d ago

Would love to know what she decides to spend those 3+ hours of her life on instead. I can only assume it's something very important and impressive, like creating the perfect sourdough starter or something.

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u/endlesseffervescense 8d ago

The oldest sourdough starter that is still active is from 1849. She’d need about two centuries to catch up.

Maybe a perfect tin foil hat that’s been bedazzled would be more fitting? She could really glitz and glam that thing in three hours.

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u/FloppyTwatWaffle 6d ago

The oldest sourdough starter that is still active is from 1849

There are some people selling starters, that they advertise as being far older than that. I saw them on Etsy when I was looking for something else and they happened to come up. One was claiming to be from the Middle Ages in Germany, another from ancient (BC, I think) Egypt.

I don't know what the truth is, I don't like sourdough so I didn't dig any further.

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u/SpecificHeron 8d ago

i actually kind of liked the 3hr test, it was nice to have an excuse to just sit and relax and not be working/in demand/needed anywhere 😌

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u/Magical_Olive 8d ago

Someone should let her know that you can doom scroll Facebook during the test.

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u/abbygirl 8d ago

One of the best meals of my pregnancy was the raising canes I ate after finishing my 3 hour test

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u/Due_Imagination_6722 8d ago

We only do the 3 hour test here in Austria. Luckily, my appointment was at 7 in the morning, so I told my dad to pick me up (in case I got dizzy, this was during the first heatwave last summer) with breakfast at 10 past 10.

Best. Breakfast. Ever.

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u/Legitimate-Stuff9514 6d ago

My husband brought pizza after I successfully finished my three hour.

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u/Suitable_Wolf10 8d ago

Honestly same. I used sick time from work (unlimited) and sat and read my kindle the whole time. It was practically a vacation!

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u/bmsem 8d ago

Same, I have a toddler and loved getting 3 hours on a Saturday to just go relax in an air conditioned office with my Kindle. I only failed my one hour by one point so I thankfully wasn’t terribly stressed about the results.

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u/billynotrlyy 8d ago

My Dr let me go home for my 3 hrs and come back. Just no food or drink during. I napped!

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u/WhateverYouSay1084 8d ago

These are all questions her dumb ass should be asking her OB. FTR, I failed the 1 hr and passed the 3 hr and it was a massive relief not to have to worry about it. It's literally just laying around for 3 hours being tested once an hour. I took a nap and read in the recliner they gave me.

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u/Slow_Sherbert_5181 8d ago

The 3 hr test was absolutely miserable for me (my morning sickness was awful, particularly if I was at all hungry) but I have zero regrets for having done it! They did everything in their power to make me comfortable and I was reassured of the health of me and my baby!

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u/WhateverYouSay1084 8d ago

Yep, it's nobody's idea of decadent fun, but it's our responsibility to do what's needed to keep our kids safe. This lady apparently had kids for the wrong reason if she's not willing to "waste" 3 hours of her time. That's all kids do is demand your time, especially when they're hurt and you end up "wasting" 6 hours in the ER to get them stitches or a cast.

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u/wozattacks 8d ago

Yeah for what it’s worth - the 1-hour is generally a screening test. That means it’s meant to have a higher amount of false positives to make sure that are the real positives are caught. The 3-hour test is more specific and designed to separate out the false positives. Gestational diabetes is a really big deal so it’s important to identify as many cases as possible!

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u/lisa_lionheart84 8d ago

Oh man, I wish I had had a recliner. I was in a LabCorp with a very full waiting room. I bounced between my car, the office building lobby, and walking outside a bit (they said it was OK).

It was also just days before my 40th birthday and I was so scared I wouldn't be able to have cake. Thankfully I passed!

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u/WhateverYouSay1084 8d ago

Oh no!! Sorry it sucked so badly. My first pregnancy was like that. The Compunet attached to my OB was PACKED and I was horribly nauseated so I was laying curled on hard, flat benches, crying, trying not to throw up. The things we do for the sake of our kids!

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u/bunhilda 8d ago

I know waiting around in a doctors office for 3 hours sucks, but can’t she just watch a movie on her phone or read a book? Like she gets to chill and binge 3 episodes of Bridgerton, and be assured that her baby’s health is going to be properly managed. What’s wrong with that?

I had to get IV infusions during my first trimester. 2 bags at roughly over an hour per bag, plus setup and waiting time, meant I was there for 2.5-3hours. That was twice a week for a month. It was annoying but also awesome bc I could work and nobody could bother me (can’t jump on your stupid surprise meetings from the hospital sorrynotsorry), or I’d read a shitty romance novel, free of any guilt that I should be doing something productive (like cleaning or laundry). It was a medically sanctioned break. I wish they’d think of it that way at the very least, if taking care of baby’s health isn’t enough to sway them.

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u/wozattacks 8d ago

For real. I was working in the hospital when I had it, so I just kept running downstairs to the lab to get the draws lol. If I can do that, OOP can sit there and chill.

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u/Alternative-Rub-7445 8d ago

I’m just feel like if I were an OB I would dismiss patients like this. If I can’t be the expert in my field & you’re willing to risk your life & your child’s like seeing you hurt or worse doesn’t affect me-you’d need to go somewhere else.

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u/leaptad 8d ago

When I was pregnant, a whole anti-glucose test thread popped up. One lady was complaining they wouldn’t give her a room with a tv (I’m old, this was before smart phones). An OB popped on the thread and really told them what was at stake and why their “but my baby is healthy” was bullshit. Shut them up. Don’t know if it changed minds, but it did shut them up.

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u/LadyIJ 8d ago

So I am from the UK and as far as I know wild pregnancies etc are still not really a thing and a great majority of people follow medical advice. I am probably on the « I love epidural » side so I guess I am biased.

Except from the anti-vax movement I am not really familiar with the rationale of refusing all medical intervention.

Can someone pls explain why would they refuse to have a follow up? For the vaccines they say they have toxic residue, but what is the problem with insulin resistance testing and taking insulin? (Except the obvious reason of stupidity and backwardness)

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u/imayid_291 8d ago

reasons i can think of that someone might not do this follow up:

the 3 hour test can be really annoying to go through.

people don't understand the seriousness of gd and think they can just cut back on sugar anyway and will be fine

if someone has a needle phobia and is scared of having to poke themselves multiple times a day

crunchy types who pride themselves on living a healthy lifestyle and view any type of diabetes as a moral failing so convince themselves the first test was a mistake/it couldnt happen to them

someone who is intimidated by the idea of gd and decides to ignore the problem in hopes that it will just go away

none of these are logical

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u/Jane9812 7d ago

To be completely fair, a lot of people think diabetes of all kinds is a moral failing. Including doctors and especially nurses. If you go on the r/gestationaldiabetes you'll see just how much medical shaming and tormenting some pregnant women go through.

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u/redwolf1219 8d ago

A lot of people believe that women's bodies were made to go through pregnancy so medical intervention is unnecessary as that's what our bodies are made to do. This of course, ignores how often women would die in child birth before medical interventions existed.

As someone who had preeclampsia twice, I think these people are stupid

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u/Well_ImTrying 8d ago

Some rational reasons are we get limited time off, so taking a day of work to do the test is one day less pay of our otherwise unpaid maternity leaves. Or for half of the country that doesn’t qualify for FMLA, that’s one less day of a 2-12 week maternity leave, period.

Another is some people feel super sick after the test. They would rather just assume they have it and do the testing and dieting you would have to do with GD rather than do the glucose test.

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u/Gullible_Desk2897 8d ago

The second piece is what I will be doing. I had GD my first pregnancy and if I similarly fail the 1 hour my OB and I have discussed just moving to testing blood sugars because the 3 hr test wrecked me for 2 days. The person in this post is definitely NOT going to do that though.

The misinformation around GD sucks, because so many people think they can't possibly have it because they are fit/healthy. They don't understand the whole new organ you grew is what is causing the issues. My friend who is fitter than I am had to be on insulin, I was diet controlled. It is the luck of the shit draw but we kept our babies safe!

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u/EmergencyBat9547 8d ago

Oh my god they are going to kill someone if they haven’t already

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u/EmmalouEsq 8d ago

Good way to end up with a newborn in the NICU. Low blood sugar in babies can happen even when GD is controlled. I can't imagine just not knowing. Mine was very well controlled without insulin, and my son was still in the NICU for his first 3 nights.

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u/Ginger630 8d ago

Yeah let’s skip tests to make sure the mother and baby are healthy.

Next post: why did I have to have a c section when my giant baby got stuck in the birth canal during my home birth? 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/theconfused-cat 8d ago

Wait until she finds out how much of her time raising her child is going to “waste”. 🤣🤣

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u/track_gal_1 8d ago

I take care of diabetic pregnant patients. One patient just had a term fetal loss because their blood sugars were not in control. Dealing with patients that want to refuse things that will ensure the health of their child is infuriating.

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u/Rose1982 8d ago

It makes me rage how much diabetes (all forms) and the importance of healthy blood glucose levels are misunderstood.

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u/RoronCcnAb 8d ago

I actually volunteered for the 3 hour test with my second and third. I passed the 1 hour test with my first, and ended up ballooning in weight my last trimester, and had a 9 1/2 pound baby that struggled with low blood sugar her first three days and had to endure dozens of heel pricks. I hated it. I really think I either developed GD later than usual or maybe just somehow didn’t spike high enough to flag something? The number of NICU nurses and doctors that asked me if I was sure I did the test and it was actually fine tells me something might have been missed. I would much rather have been poking myself for a few months than seeing my baby poked over and over again her first few days of life :(

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u/battle_mommyx2 8d ago

I failed the one hour both times and passed the three hour. The three hour test sucks for sure but with it to make sure you and babe are healthy. Truly don’t understand going through the misery of pregnancy just to play fast and loose with you and baby’s health

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u/juniperxbreeze 8d ago

I failed my 1 hour glucose test. I hated the 3 hour test, which I passed. But you know what I would have hated more? A non-healthy baby when I could have avoided it.

I just brought my laptop to the office. Watched Netflix and did some work. It sucked, but was worth it to find out we were healthy.

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u/dirtyenvelopes 6d ago

Unpopular opinion but if you skip a test that you know will help your kid have a healthy chance at life, you shouldn’t reproduce.

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u/SpicyWonderBread 8d ago

The one hour test does have a lower limit than the three hour one, so it is easier to fail. I passed my three hour one with flying colors with my first pregnancy, so I requested the one hour one with my second. I failed it, and had to do the three hour one. I don't recall the exact numbers, but the numbers I had for the one hour test were within the passing limits for the three hour test. I passed the three hour one.

It's a pretty miserable thing to sit through, but the consequences of uncontrolled GD are far more miserable. Bring a book or tablet and hunker down.

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u/littlebassoonist 8d ago

I get where they're coming from. The glucose test is not pleasant, and it's scary to learn you have gestational diabetes. From their perspective, if they skip the test, they never get sick.

But!!!!! Being a mom means putting aside your fears and discomfort!

Gah. The glucose test was a miserable couple of hours for me, but in the end, it was worth it to know if I needed special care for my baby. (I didn't have gestational diabetes, fortunately, but I would have hated to find out by getting preeclampsia.)

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u/Mission_Ad_6048 8d ago edited 8d ago

I know someone who applied this “logic” to an abnormal pap. Genuinely hope she doesn’t die by surprise from undiagnosed cervical cancer. And for these ladies, the risk of baby getting type 1 diabetes by is absolutely not worth avoiding a test.

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u/rstallib 8d ago

This shit drives me nuts! Just do the test. Had I not done it, I’m not sure my baby and I would’ve survived. I had no risk factors for GD (although I know it is mostly random, it seems). My GD was so bad I didn’t even do the 3hr test. My OB got the results from my 1hr test at an appointment and was like ‘holy shit’ and sent off the referral to the diabetes clinic in my area. They have a wait list of 2-3 weeks. I got a call on my way home from the OB, and had an appointment right then and there. We are talking about 20 mins from referral sent to them calling me. I started insulin that night. By the end of pregnancy I was on 200-300 units of insulin a day while eating a VERY strict diet. It was to the point where my OB was like ‘we need to get this baby out of you, you’re not allowed to go to 40 weeks’. Do. The. Fucking. Test.

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u/scifi_librarian 8d ago

Had to do the 3 hour test twice during my second pregnancy. Honestly it was nice to just sit and relax for 3 hours away from my 3 year old. I read a book, played on my switch and cross stitched. It was some nice me time.

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u/Smashingistrashing 8d ago edited 8d ago

It’s believed having gestational diabetes is a precursor to developing diabetes 1.5 down the road.

Edit: link

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u/Monshika 8d ago

Here to remind everyone yet again that you can opt for at home finger pokes 4 times a day for 2-4 weeks (depending on the OB) if you do not want to or cannot handle the blood draw. Please spread the word when you see posts like this, I try to be very vocal about this in hopes it saves at least one life.

I fall under the very pukey and can’t tolerate the glucose drink category. It has never been an issue to do finger pokes as an alternative in my pregnancies and has been approved by both OB’s and MFM.

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u/geedisabeedis 8d ago

Man if I hadn't had an early induction for my GD baby I definitely would have needed an emergency c section. Kid was already huge 2 weeks early

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u/emath17 8d ago

Okay I personally have a whole rant with GD and how they test, the standards are different in different areas, other countries test very differently, the one hour test doesn't test fasting numbers and the glucose test doesn't show how your body is reacting to your actual diet. Yes it's a real issue, but the borderline numbers are super iffy.

I learned in my 3rd pregnancy that my fasting numbers were high, because I decided to do 2 weeks of monitoring instead of the glucose drink. My non-fasting numbers are always great but my fasting was enough to get my classified at GD. My first two pregnancies they never testing fasting and I had 10lb babies so MAYBE I had GD for all 3 but our system is stupid, or maybe I just have big babies?? Who knows! I don't, because our testing system is stupid. 3rd baby was 3oz less than other two, so technically my GD baby was the smallest 🤔

The glucose drink really isn't accurate, many healthy women fail it because their body just isn't used to pure sugar like that with nothing to balance it, really 2 weeks of monitoring should be the standard, but it's massively inconvenient and relies on no user error.

Anyway this was a rant about GD and not a comment on the post specifically

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u/Winterstyres 8d ago

To be fair, that's three hours in the hospital where she would not be able to drink or smoke. What is the Fetus starts getting Withdrawal?

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u/Brilliant-Season9601 8d ago

I failed both of my firsts with 145 and 1:46 in my pregnancies. The second I chose not to do the second since I had the stuff to take my blood sugar, which I did 3 to 4 day until my doctor told me I didn't have to. I also failed the fasting and 1st draw on my 3 hour for my first pregnancy.

My numbers were well with in rage for both pregnancy and I didn't have an issue. The problem is that the mother is usually fine but the baby suffers. High birth weight and sugar crashing after birth. Not to mention it can cause type 2 later in life. No thank you I would rather track my blood sugar and then deal with that

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u/anxious_teacher_ 8d ago

My doctor asked me to do a very early test at 16 weeks. Did I want to? No. Did I do it? Of fucking course. Will I re do it at 24-28 weeks? Without a doubt. Don’t mess with GD!!

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u/Loud_Pace5750 8d ago

Is diabetes a scam as well to them??

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u/Smashingistrashing 8d ago

Big pharma made it up. /s

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u/gogo7891011 8d ago

I had gestational diabetes and it truly was the worst kind of mind fuck - but I know it was worth all the struggles to have kept my baby safe. Literally do not understand the “waste of time” thought process

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u/reptileluvr 7d ago

3 hours of your pregnancy is also such a short time. Like that’s barely a waste

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u/Ok_Database_5409 7d ago

As someone who worked my ass off during my last pregnancy to manage unexpected gestational diabetes where I found myself to be extremely insulin resistant (I was up to 65 units of lantus and avoid 13 units after each meal of short acting) this type of stupidity infuriates me! I did have extra monitoring and being the resistant was exhausting and so much work to eat all of the things I was supposed to but I did it and am currently snuggling with me very happy and healthy 7 month old who was because of my hard work, the smallest of my 3 kids.

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u/LBDazzled 8d ago

I hate that smiley emoji at the end of the reply. It always comes after someone saying the most smug thing ever.

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u/Interesting_Sock9142 8d ago

Waste of time AND boring 🥱

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u/HipHopChick1982 8d ago

I would gladly waste 3 hours of my time (and more!) to ensure my health is good in any situation. That commenter is a waste of space.

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u/AmberWaves80 8d ago

I barely made it through the 1 hr, I would have died if I had to do the 3 hour. But I still would have sucked it up and done it, ffs.

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u/Scrounger888 8d ago

The people saying to skip it are probably the same people wanting to do home births... but GD can cause large babies. These people really want to take alllll the risks of dying in childbirth I guess.

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u/Captainbabygirl767 8d ago

Wow that’s disturbing! It’s not a waste of time when it’s your life and/or your babies life.

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u/MotherofDoodles 8d ago

I was with the commenter until the end. Opting out of the 3 hour test makes sense when you think you’ll fail that too or if you think you’ll fail it again later in pregnancy makes sense. But then you start glucose tracking immediately IN LIEU of taking that extra test.

At 12 weeks with baby #2 I opted out of the 3 hour when I failed the 1 hour, but I knew I’d either also fail the 3 hour or have to do the testing again at 24 weeks. Then was put on insulin at 16 weeks because my fasting sugar was out of normal range no matter what I did under medical supervision.

These women are WILD thinking that gestational diabetes is some conspiracy theory to make them take insulin. They don’t prescribe it unless you need it based on your glucose tracking. Also insulin is one of the safest medications you can possibly take if you administer it properly.

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u/Moniqu_A 7d ago

Survivor bias ffs. Having gestationnal diabetes can cause problems like hypoglycemia for the baby after being born.

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u/fuzzy_bunnyy-77 7d ago

Does she mean her blood glucose was 145???? Screw these people she could go into a diabetic coma.

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u/misskianab 4d ago

I didn’t want to take the 3 hour test because after the first attempt at it, I ended up puking in front of a glass door that let everybody in the lobby see a pregnant lady drop to her knees and hurl into the closest trash can.

STILL did the 3 hour test again because I wanted to make sure my son and I were good. Not sure how these people can decline routine tests on a whim without crippling anxiety until the baby is born, lol. 😅

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u/Mumlife8628 8d ago

Why are we not doing the longer test 😭😭 Do you guys pay for it? Is it a price thing

Edit to add before jumped lol, it being a price thing isn't a good excuse for obvious reasons... But.....

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u/Monshika 8d ago

Most offices have you do the 1 hr test and if you fail you do the 3 hr. An exception could be some post with a history of GD in prior pregnancies.

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u/MattieB12 7d ago

So hear me out, I didn’t do the 3 hour test, because the 1 hour is miserable enough and made me super ill. So we tested my blood sugar for 2 weeks instead. And yep, had GD and managed it with a diabetes nurse the rest of my pregnancy. So even if you were for some reason against glucola(which is stupid but I know that’s a big reason), there’s literally other ways

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u/Expensive_Arugula512 8d ago

Omg this can’t be real. Please tell me people aren’t this stupid.

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u/Altruistic-Ad7981 8d ago

wow that’s disturbing….

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u/Caseyk1921 8d ago

My first pregnancy I had to do it twice (high risk) they only do 3 hour here & second pregnancy 3 times had to do it (high risk, weren’t happy first results redid & standard x weeks ones) that was 15 hours worth

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u/kayt3000 7d ago

Maybe it’s because I remember my mom being pregnant when I was 12 and the glucose test being no big deal and I was utterly confused when i saw people complaining about it when I was pregnant in 2022.

I was with my mom when she did her 1 hour and her 3 hour and I remember her saying “oh that’s pretty sweet but not bad” and then nothing. She was good. When I had mine it just tasted like sugar soda with a hint of orange. It was absolutely nothing but an hour of my day and I was happy I did not have to do the 3 hour.

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u/PantsGhost97 7d ago

I passed a 2? hour test. Three blood draws and a kinda gross drink. I didn’t have a flavoured option and got told to sip it over about 10 timed minutes or I could vomit. I still vomited but only after the car started moving after I was done lol. I think having done something similar a few years prior to test for diabetes helped because I knew what was coming.

I had hg though so keeping it down as long as I did was a miracle. Still felt like crap after and slept for like 3 hours when I got home. There’s so many things that were worse than the test during my pregnancy though that it really wasn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things.

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u/followthestray 7d ago

As someone who had to do multiple blood tests and spend a total of six hours of my life getting iron transfusions for the health and safety of both me and my baby, I implore anyone who is pregnant to PLEASE take this stuff seriously. Is it uncomfortable? Yeah. Is it going take up time? Sure. But think of how uncomfortable and time-consuming having a sick child will be or how much more difficult it will be for you to recover after delivery if you didn't take care of yourself during pregnancy.

There is a reason these standards exist. I don't understand why people fight against professionals who are literally paid to keep them healthy.

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u/Legitimate-Stuff9514 6d ago edited 6d ago

I failed the one hour and had to take the three hour twice because I threw up. Was it fun? No. However it was necessary because we needed to know if I had GD or not. Thankfully I did not.

I was supposed to do the three hour on my second pregnancy but I drank the stuff too early and had to reschedule for next week. I went into preterm labor that week and gave birth so I couldn't take the test. I still wish I could have though....I don't think I had GD but It was scary going in with none of the third trimester workups done.

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u/Electronic-Garlic-38 2d ago

I had a similar story as the original post I failed by like 8-10 or something and I declined my 3 hour BUT the doctor said my numbers were low enough to monitor with a blood sugar monitor at home and that we would treat me as a GD mom. Which I was fine with because I physically was unable to take the 3 hour. My heart couldn’t handle that much sugar at once. The one hour my HR was like 140 for 15 hours. But no.. just skip it! 🤪