Gestational diab...... help?

Question

so im 33 weeks and i was diagnosed with G B and i cant seem to stop eating. they had me on a strick diet but i blew it and lied sooo they gave me meds and i though it would control my blood all the way but it only helps a lil bit. Even though the meds dont harm my baby my blood is still high and that does i really want to control my eating habits but i cant. I quite smoking at the beginning of this preg and comped it by eating. What can i do i dont want my son to be sick when born and i dont want the doctors mad cause they have to up my dose and im lying to them about over eating ( i tell them im sticking to the diet) and i dont know why my blood is still so high. They just found out im severely animec also sooo my blood is very thin errrr how can i stop i get sooo hungry its drives me nuts!

Answer 1

i am diabetic and have had a healthy baby, i know its hard to control what you eat, but its a relatively short time to sacrifice to have a healthy baby, if you have high blood sugars you can and will do damage to your unborn child, high blood sugars can cause still births, they can cause heart problems, they can cause your baby to have breathing problems when born because high sugars inhibit lung maturation, and if your sugars are high, your baby is getting too much sugar as well so when your baby is born its pancreas will be used to producing a lot of insulin to deal with your high sugars and the baby can have severe hypoglycemia causing it to be in the NICU, your baby can also grow way too big if your sugars are high, when you have a craving think of everything that could happen to your baby if you continue to have high sugars and that should deter you, it did me

Answer 2

Try this.  Before you eat, drink several glasses of water.  Then eat until you are satisfied, do not eat until you are full.  You are also better off eating small meals with snacks (a piece of fruit) in-between.  Finally, if you are allowed to exercise, do so.  walking is nice in that you can stop and rest just about anytime and you can turn around and walk home if you feel you are reaching your limit.  Finally, do not eat anything big after 8PM, go with a snack if you need to.  

Answer 3

With both my pregnancies, they were gestational. I found out that if I ate something small every 2 hours with a hot cup of herbal tea or iced herbal tea, I was no longer hungry all the time. As a bedtime snack, I ate 1/2 a peanut butter on toast sandwich first followed by 1/2 a turkey OR a 1/2 a cheese sandwich, with 4 oz of low fat milk. That carried me over till the next morning.My morning sugars would usually be @ 105-115. There is something good @ protien snacks.