In other bump news…

9 December 2008
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I got an email a couple of months ago from an old friend who’d discovered she had gestational diabetes (pregnancy diabetes). I have mixed feelings about gestational diabetes really. Mainly I feel sorry for the women who get it, because they don’t usually find out until they’re between 24 and 28 weeks through their pregnancy. All of a sudden they’ve got this condition which could seriously affect their baby’s health and they have to deal with all of the fear and hassle and complication of injections and blood tests and all of that stuff we all take in our stride – as if being pregnant wasn’t enough of a condition to be careful of. It must be a real shock…

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By Nic on 9 December 2008 at 9.12 am
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It can be done, girls!

30 November 2008
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I went round to visit a friend of mine today – a type one diabetic friend who in September this year had her first baby.

Now, I can’t speak for anyone but myself – but as a woman of a certain age, whose friends are now starting to have children, I’ve put a bit of thought into how this might be achieved with a chronic condition like diabetes. I’ve done a bit of reading: frankly it sounds bloody hard, unpredictable, high maintenance, risky work. Not only that, but if the scaremongering on the internet is to be believed:

A recent study showed that both types of diabetes greatly increase the risk of complications during pregnancy. The study…

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By Nic on 30 November 2008 at 7.21 pm
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