gestational diabetes....fasting reading 100mg/dl or 5.5 mmo/l.....i am 39

[lovebird]

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

[sevenofus]

I had Gestational Diabetes with my 4th pregnancy. The fasting glucose reading of 100 is on the high side, but not dangerously so. It is a possible indicator that you need an adjustment of your insulin. Since you are very near to the end of your pregnancy a few more days or a couple more weeks of this is not going to be cause for great alarm. After the birth of your baby, it is most likely that he will be just fine. He will have several blood tests to check his glucose numbers, but most babies don't show any signs of problems. He may have hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, but beginning to nurse right away usually takes care of that. Rarely babies born to moms with GD require some IV glucose solution to balance the glucose numbers. There may be some jaundice that develops, but this is normal for babies born to moms without GD as well. It is easily treated and not generally cause for concern. While there is an increased risk of higher than normal birth weight for babies born to moms with GD, it is not a given. The baby I had when I had GD was born at 41 weeks and weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces. They predicted (via ultrasound) that she would weigh over 8 pounds, but ultrasound weight predictions can be off. Typically the biggest problem is a large baby which can cause vaginal delivery problems so some doctors recommend an induction if the baby is getting too large and sometimes a c-section is necessary if the baby develops macrosomia, which basically is just a large baby with a big shoulders that make vaginal delivery potentially problematic. After your baby is born, specifically after the placenta is delivered, the Gestational Diabetes should go away soon after. GD is caused by pregnancy hormones that make your cells insulin resistant. The hormones are made by the placenta so as soon as that is gone, your cells return to normal in most cases. You will be at greater risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes later in life and will want to be monitored and try to keep your weight down and exercise. My youngest is now 10 and I was diagnosed last year with Glucose Intolerance, a pre-diabetic condition, so I am back eating with a specific meal plan in order to ward of Type 2 as long as possible.

[vimar]

I had gestational diabetes with my 5th child nearly 13 years ago. I was 38 years old. I don't remember the readings but I had to go on a controlled diet and test my blood after all meals. I did quite good and didn't put on hardly any weight. My other problem was high blood pressure. It went over 150/110 two weeks before the due date. They put me in hospital for bed rest but the blood pressure kept rising. I was induced and had a baby boy 2 weeks early. He was 8lb 7oz, healthy and no problems. I had a baby girl nearly 2 years later, (I was 40). The tests didn't show diabetes but I put on a lot of weight and my blood pressure went right up 3 weeks before due date, but they didn't induce me. My daughter was born 1 week late and was 10lb3oz. She had some respiratory problems for 3 days after birth but otherwise has been healthy. I felt I had the diabetes through her pregnancy, but I don't know for sure as the tests didn't show it. Good luck to you and your baby. I hope you have a good doctor who is looking after you.