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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 243527" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I remember when I fell pregnant with easy child 2/difficult child 2, it was just before Christmas and I'd bought an entire box of mangoes, the perfume of them filled the house. But quite suddenly when I was about 6 weeks pregnant, the smell of them turned my stomach. I had to walk up and down the street, giving away beautifully ripe mangoes.</p><p></p><p>When I was pregnant with difficult child 3, I found he was draining me of iron. I became more and more anaemic, despite trying to get iron in my diet in any form. even before he was born, he was very demanding.</p><p></p><p>When I was pregnant with easy child, there was a woman I met in hospital, she was already a grandmother but surprisingly pregnant. She told us how she had been very sick, they didn't know with what, and hadn't been able to keep any food down. Then she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and tey started treatment. She did surprisingly well, with insulin. A lot of gestational diabetes cases have blood sugar levels all over the place, but hers were very stable. By the time I met her, we were both in hospital. She was very thin, all the weight she'd lost had still not gone back on. The pregnancy was proceeding really well though, even if she did look like a broomstick with a pumpkin stuck on it. And the mother was still smoking - I was horrified. We were in hospital in the pre-natal ward, I was needing to be away from cigarette smoke (I was eventually moved to a smoke-free ward), the woman had diabetes and was still a walking skeleton, and yet she continued to smoke.</p><p></p><p>OK, the story doesn't have a happy ending for the woman. It turned out she didn't have gestational diabetes, she had pancreatic cancer. That was why her levels were so stable. These days there would be a great deal more could have been done for her, but not 27 years ago. She went into a coma, I don't know the full details. But that Christmas we were in the church of husband's hometown (also this woman's home church) and I heard the story from the priest. She had known that she was having a boy so there was nothing more she wanted for her husband. I believe by the end she was happy to be an incubator for the baby and was ready to die. But they kept her on life support as long as they could and she died after they delivered the baby by caesarean. The baby was perfectly healthy and a good weight, the priest said. He saw the family every week in church, the boy was doing really well. He was growing up in an extended family that ranged from his grandmother to nieces. But the thing is - despite the mother's emaciation, despite her cancer, the baby was really well. The biggest risk to him from his mother's acquired diabetes 9due to the cancer detroying her pancreas) was that he might put on TOO MUCH weight. But because her diabetes was so well-controlled, even tat wasn't a problem.</p><p></p><p>Now, her story is extreme, but I hope it can assure you that if you lose a little bit of weight, it won't be hurting the baby. The baby will take what it needs form your body, so YOU will suffer for it maybe. Just as difficult child 3 drained all the spare iron from my system and left me anaemic and yet had a very healthy iron level when he was born, so your babies won't suffer in any way, but will still be getting everything they need.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 243527, member: 1991"] I remember when I fell pregnant with easy child 2/difficult child 2, it was just before Christmas and I'd bought an entire box of mangoes, the perfume of them filled the house. But quite suddenly when I was about 6 weeks pregnant, the smell of them turned my stomach. I had to walk up and down the street, giving away beautifully ripe mangoes. When I was pregnant with difficult child 3, I found he was draining me of iron. I became more and more anaemic, despite trying to get iron in my diet in any form. even before he was born, he was very demanding. When I was pregnant with easy child, there was a woman I met in hospital, she was already a grandmother but surprisingly pregnant. She told us how she had been very sick, they didn't know with what, and hadn't been able to keep any food down. Then she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and tey started treatment. She did surprisingly well, with insulin. A lot of gestational diabetes cases have blood sugar levels all over the place, but hers were very stable. By the time I met her, we were both in hospital. She was very thin, all the weight she'd lost had still not gone back on. The pregnancy was proceeding really well though, even if she did look like a broomstick with a pumpkin stuck on it. And the mother was still smoking - I was horrified. We were in hospital in the pre-natal ward, I was needing to be away from cigarette smoke (I was eventually moved to a smoke-free ward), the woman had diabetes and was still a walking skeleton, and yet she continued to smoke. OK, the story doesn't have a happy ending for the woman. It turned out she didn't have gestational diabetes, she had pancreatic cancer. That was why her levels were so stable. These days there would be a great deal more could have been done for her, but not 27 years ago. She went into a coma, I don't know the full details. But that Christmas we were in the church of husband's hometown (also this woman's home church) and I heard the story from the priest. She had known that she was having a boy so there was nothing more she wanted for her husband. I believe by the end she was happy to be an incubator for the baby and was ready to die. But they kept her on life support as long as they could and she died after they delivered the baby by caesarean. The baby was perfectly healthy and a good weight, the priest said. He saw the family every week in church, the boy was doing really well. He was growing up in an extended family that ranged from his grandmother to nieces. But the thing is - despite the mother's emaciation, despite her cancer, the baby was really well. The biggest risk to him from his mother's acquired diabetes 9due to the cancer detroying her pancreas) was that he might put on TOO MUCH weight. But because her diabetes was so well-controlled, even tat wasn't a problem. Now, her story is extreme, but I hope it can assure you that if you lose a little bit of weight, it won't be hurting the baby. The baby will take what it needs form your body, so YOU will suffer for it maybe. Just as difficult child 3 drained all the spare iron from my system and left me anaemic and yet had a very healthy iron level when he was born, so your babies won't suffer in any way, but will still be getting everything they need. Marg [/QUOTE]
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