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Old 04-11-2008, 04:12 AM
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gestational diabetes....fasting reading 100mg/dl or 5.5 mmo/l.....i am 39

weeks pregnant and baby is 4kg? hi all.......i have gestational diabetes and my fasting glucose level is around 100 mg/dl or 5.5 mmol/l. is this a dangerous reading of glucose level....doctor told this is the marginal level for sugar glucose and i am controlling my sugal level with food, excercise and small units of insulin injection.
Now I am 39 weeks pregnant and and did ultrasound scanning and found out baby is 4kg (8.8 pounds).....i am literally scared about my gestational diabetes and I wanted to know how this is going to effect my baby after his birth? Please read the following questions and do give me a answer...

1.whether my glucose reading is fine........
2. how my gestational diabetes going to effect my baby after birth.
3. Now the scan report seems to very normal and my baby is perfectly fine..but i am scared about after his birth....how he is going to effected because of my glucose level.

only my fasting glucose level seems to be high....all post meals glucose reading always used to be under 120mg/dl.
fasting glucose level..that is after 8 hours of previous night dinner.....that reading is 100 mgdl
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