If you’re reading this article, there’s a pretty good chance you’re either about to have your glucose tolerance test during pregnancy or you have recently had the test. Healthcare practitioners follow established guidelines for a diabetes diagnosis. Gestational diabetes can be diagnosed from either a 2-hour or a 3-hour glucose tolerance test. …
Gestational Diabetes Kitchen Tools
After a gestational diabetes diagnosis, you will probably start cooking more and eating out less. It’s not that it’s impossible to eat out with gestational diabetes, but it’s easier to count your carb servings if you know exactly what’s in the food you are eating. The following gestational diabetes kitchen tools will help you manage your gestational diabetes by making meal prep easier. …
Pregnancy Acronyms
Pregnancy can be hard enough without feeling like you need to learn a new language to understand all of the pregnancy acronyms being tossed about. Here’s a little cheat sheet to help you out!…
Gestational Diabetes Menu Plan
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to a gestational diabetes menu plan. Essentially, the goal of any gestational diabetes menu plan is to maintain normal blood glucose levels, gain an appropriate amount of weight during pregnancy, prevent ketosis, and to get all of the nutrients for a healthy mom & healthy baby. However, there are some common components that you can use to help you develop a gestational diabetes menu plan that will work for you….
Gestational Diabetes Sample Diet Plan
If you’ve been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, you probably know that watching the amount of carbs you eat plays a big role in your new diet. Most women are typically put on a gestational diabetes carb counting diet after being diagnosed. It’s often helpful to see what these guidelines look like with some menu suggestions in a gestational diabetes sample diet plan.
A gestational diabetes sample diet plan can be replicated and tweaked once you understand the basics of how it was put together. To do this, I recommend …
Stomach Flu During Pregnancy – Nutritional Considerations
Getting sick is never fun, but it’s even worse when you’re pregnant. You’re worried about getting better and making sure your unborn baby stays healthy. The biggest thing you need to worry about when you have the stomach flu during pregnancy is dehydration. Depending on your symptoms, you can become dehydrated from throwing up, having diarrhea, or even from just having a fever. And the higher the fever, the more likely you are to lose fluids because of it.
The good news is that most stomach viruses are short-lived. But it can seem like forever when you’re going through it….
Gum Disease and Gestational Diabetes
Periodontal (gum) disease is a general term that refers to anything from mild gum inflammation to severe damage to the soft tissue & bone that support the teeth, and there is a relationship between gum disease and gestational diabetes.
When I started reading about gum disease and gestational diabetes, I expected to find information stressing the importance of good oral hygiene when you have gestational diabetes. I assumed the higher blood sugar levels would increase the chances for gum infections since bacteria love to eat sugar. And that’s true…but the relationship between gum disease and gestational diabetes is not quite so simple.
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Gestational Diabetes Risk Factors
On average, gestational diabetes impacts 6% of pregnancies in the US. However, every pregnancy doesn’t have an equal chance of developing gestational diabetes. Some people have an increased chance of developing gestational diabetes due to having one or more of the gestational diabetes risk factors. Being familiar with gestational diabetes risk factors can help you determine if you are at risk.
If you are at risk, you can make dietary and lifestyle changes to hopefully prevent gestational diabetes …
Gestational Diabetes Food List
You’ve recently been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and you want to know what you can eat. Well, the good news is that other than foods to limit & avoid during pregnancy in general, there really aren’t any foods that are forbidden when you have gestational diabetes. I did put together a gestational diabetes food list for you though. The key is knowing …
Will Gestational Diabetes Hurt My Baby?
Gestational diabetes can cause the following complications for your developing baby:
- Large size (over 9 lbs) – can lead to delivery complication, including shoulder dystocia
- Prematurity
- Low blood sugar immediately following birth
- Higher risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity later in life
Whether gestational diabetes hurts your baby or not really depends on you. And here’s why.
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