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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:33 PM 

So over the previous month, before the glucose test, I controlled cautiously over my diet. No more cakes, no more desserts, no more fruit juices....then even for bread, I only eat wholemeal bread. To me, this is super cruel, as I am a 'sweet' person, especially after I pregnant, I like to eat sweet sweet delicacies. Haiz... no choice, better pay attention on this as it will effect Chloe.

Last saturday, went for glucose test around 830am. Fasting since previous midnight, I was not scared of blood test or have to drink super sweet liquid, I worried of low blood sugar as I was almost blackout once last month after I controlled my diet. Maybe due to hungry and low sugar intake so I suddenly felt uncomfortable and I could felt I was going to 'power shut-off' so I told cw what to do if I fainted. Luckily cw gave me 2 chocolate then I regained conscious.

What is glucose test? When you arrive for the test, you'll be given a sugar solution that contains 50 grams of glucose. The stuff tastes like a very sweet soda pop (mine was orange flavor), and you have to get all of it down in five minutes. An hour later, a lab technician will take a blood sample from your arm to check your blood sugar level. The idea is to see how efficiently your body processes sugar. Another hour later, third blood sample will be taken again. Then result will be available after 45 mins - an hour.

Therefore, I took a bite then returned to clinic to see my gynae for the result. Once entered the doctor's room, my gynae said my result is slightly abnormal which normal range is below 140 then mine is 142..... speechless...due to this slightly out of the range, I have been diagnosed as gestational diabetes and have to monitor my blood sugar. However, doctor said mine is a mild problem, just slightly higher than normal and my body processes sugar slightly slower than normal. She also did ultrasound for me, Chloe is healthy and average size, heart beat alright, so she asked us not to worry too much. She said just need to control diet but is not that totally no sugar, just take lesser and reduced.

So I have to do 'home work'. Borrowed a blood glucose monitoring system from clinic (need to deposit sgd100) then bought test strips and lancets. What I need to do is prick my finger tip six times in a day once a week, to monitor blood sugar before and after an hour each meal. Then I need to record down each reading, if exceed from normal range, then need to call doctor to ask for consultation.

Read about Gestational Diabetes from BabyCenter, then will get bit anxious and worry about this but I also read some posts from experienced mother whom had diabetes for her first 2 kids and even for the third one she was considered very good condition as only slightly exceed from normal like me. Her kids all okay and healthy. So I relieved a bit.

Being a mother is really not easy, need to worry so much. In fact, my condition over these 7 months considered as quite okay, only during the beginning period experienced brownish discharge, then no morning sickness at all, just that now I have to go through this. Like cw said, is good that I have this monitoring system else even if I passed the test, I doubt myself would dare to eat uncontrollably then might end up low blood sugar again. Plus, I really need to take note on this diabetes even after I gave birth, I am in high risk group to have diabetes so must eat in balance and not eat as much as I wish. This is indeed a good lesson for me and created great awareneess.

Hopefully, this is only temporary to me. I hope me and Chloe both healthy and we have a smooth journey ahead.

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