Re: Pregnancy-Debi

[Guest guest]

I also believe I had un dxed gestational diabetes -- my ASD son was

9lb 5 oz at birth. My third(NT) child was 9 15, but my doc put me on

a diet at 7.5 months. I also had to take antibiotics for bronchitis

while pregnant with my son.

Laurie

> I also

> suspect I had un dxed gestational diabetes for a lot of my preg and

> wonder what implications that could have as I've met a lot of

> gestational moms of ASD children. No proof, just a feeling.

>

> Debi

[Guest guest]

When they checked my sugar at 20 wks, I was one point over the

cutoff from my first preg, but they had moved up the cutoff. At 32

wks I was way over the limit and immediately began insulin. With my

third preg I was on 140 u/day by 12 wks in. I'm now type 2. I have

wondered if high blood sugars might have negatively impacted her.

She was my largest at 7lb 13, my first was 7lb 2, and my last was

7lb 3. Another woman whose son had therapy with Allie also had

gestational. I encouraged the diabetes center at my hospital to do a

5 yr post partum study, but they have not, to my knowledge. My OB

said that a gestational mother runs about a 6% rate of birth

defects, compared to 3-4% of healthy pregs, but to my knowledge

autism isn't counted as a birth defect, so it could be higher.

There are also several women on the gfcfrecipes board who said they

were gestational.

Debi

> > I also

> > suspect I had un dxed gestational diabetes for a lot of my preg

and

> > wonder what implications that could have as I've met a lot of

> > gestational moms of ASD children. No proof, just a feeling.

> >

> > Debi