mom2lillian
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I would have to disagree with some of the other views you have been given. I say you are only pregnant with that child once and you sohuld do the best you possibly can to give them as health an environment as possible. I dont think you should treat yourself like a fragile paranoid person but do the best you possible can do. Which in my mind means no pop, or straight juice for that matter, limited or no artificial sweetners, and try your absolute best to manage the diabetes so that you dont need insulin.
The following statments are that taken from experience with my pregnancy and both my sisters and the talkw iwth docs so it is not necessarily what yoru doc will say and who knows who is right but my doc has dealt with alot of cf pregnancies and I trusted her.
Allowing the diabetes to get to the point of needing insuline has a more dramatic affect on your placenta then if you dont. Diabetes in any form calcifies placenta and makes it more difficult for the baby to get nutrients and oxygen from (this is why they normally induce a pregnant woman and they ahve higher risk of c-section and fetal distress) which can cause growth restriction, soemthing those with CF are already at a higher risk for. In addition, one of the most common problems of children born to diabetics (more often insulin debendant ones) is reffered to as IDB - infant of diabetic mother and is when the childs blood sugars plummet soon after birht because once their pancreas forms they actually start to secrete insulin because their bodies are sensing the high blood sugars and trying to cope. If your child is 'IDB' it can cause problems with breastfeeding because often they will force formula on them to help adjust blood sugar since colostrum has little nutritive value.
Children born to diabetics have higher risk of a myriad of other factors so I say do anythign you can to keep teh GD under control without meds--that's just my 2 cents. BUT if you do need insulin then dont sweat it millions turned out fine on it and yours will too, it just complicates things (though there were times I wished I coudl 'just take insulin' so I could eat what I wanted a bit more).
The following statments are that taken from experience with my pregnancy and both my sisters and the talkw iwth docs so it is not necessarily what yoru doc will say and who knows who is right but my doc has dealt with alot of cf pregnancies and I trusted her.
Allowing the diabetes to get to the point of needing insuline has a more dramatic affect on your placenta then if you dont. Diabetes in any form calcifies placenta and makes it more difficult for the baby to get nutrients and oxygen from (this is why they normally induce a pregnant woman and they ahve higher risk of c-section and fetal distress) which can cause growth restriction, soemthing those with CF are already at a higher risk for. In addition, one of the most common problems of children born to diabetics (more often insulin debendant ones) is reffered to as IDB - infant of diabetic mother and is when the childs blood sugars plummet soon after birht because once their pancreas forms they actually start to secrete insulin because their bodies are sensing the high blood sugars and trying to cope. If your child is 'IDB' it can cause problems with breastfeeding because often they will force formula on them to help adjust blood sugar since colostrum has little nutritive value.
Children born to diabetics have higher risk of a myriad of other factors so I say do anythign you can to keep teh GD under control without meds--that's just my 2 cents. BUT if you do need insulin then dont sweat it millions turned out fine on it and yours will too, it just complicates things (though there were times I wished I coudl 'just take insulin' so I could eat what I wanted a bit more).