(GDM) or high blood sugar during pregnancy, used to be relatively rare, ocurring in about 3-4% of pregnancies. But in recents years, the rate has double now, up to 6-8% of moms-to -be are diagnosed with this prenatal complication.
Currently, women in the United States routinely under go a GDM screening between 24 weeks and 28 weeks of pregnancy. At your doctor's office, you drink a bottle of super-sweet soda sipike with pancake syrup and an hour later your blood is drawn.
If your blood sugar is higher that 140 milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood plasma you will be referred to a laboratory for an oral glocose tolerance test. (OGTT). This involves an overnight dast, then drinking a soda that's monumentally sweeter than then first one nad having blood drawn four times over three hours.
If your blood sugar exceeds a designates theshold at two of the four blood draws,, your are diagnosed with GDM.
* Women who gain excess weight in the first trimester
* Korean-American and Filipino-American womens
* Women who drink five or more sufar-sweetened sodas a week
* Women with gum disease
* Frequent snores.
Suzanne Schlosberg
Co-author of the Essential Breastfeeding log
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