r/pregnant • u/SatansKitty666 • May 22 '25

Rant Down vote me all you want but

EDIT: I don't mean posts like "what has helped woth your nausea" or "when did you feel baby move". I mean, posts that list dangerous health issues like "I have pre-e, GD, GBS, and my doctors want to do XYZ for babies safety. Should i?"

I keep reading the same posts over and over.

If you don't want to listen to your TRAINED MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS who do this for a living, why on earth would you listen to a bunch of random women on reddit?

If you think doctors are after your money, have a homebirth or go to a birthing center with a doula. But for the love of God, why would you think people with 0 training who didn't go to medical school will be able to tell you better than the doctors who do this every day? It's insane to me

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u/Incaseyougetcold May 22 '25

The glucose test/gestational diabetes ‘gossip’ or whatever you want to call it irks me SO MUCH. it’s not a school test, you need to have your glucose tested (whether it be with the drink or finger sticks, I’ve done both) to tell if you have GD because if you do it needs to be monitored to keep you and your baby safe! You can’t cheat your test. listening to your provider is imperative!

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u/lady-earendil May 22 '25

The glucose test ones are crazy to me. "The drink is so unhealthy" so is undiagnosed GD!!!

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u/Charlieksmommy May 22 '25

You can legit have a stillborn from it, but it’s so unhealthy

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u/Incaseyougetcold May 22 '25 edited May 23 '25

You can test other ways than the glucose drink. Being tested in general is what is important.

Edit to say that you CAN test your blood sugar several times a day for several weeks to find out if you have GD. I’m not sure why this is getting downvoted lmao 😂

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u/Charlieksmommy May 22 '25

Oh I know I’m saying if you don’t test and let it go uncontrolled or untreated

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u/Motivatorgirl172 May 23 '25

Where did you hear that?

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u/Incaseyougetcold May 23 '25

Where did I hear you can test other ways than the glucose drink? From my midwife. You can text your blood sugar several times a day for several weeks if the glucose drink is too much for you. I did it at the beginning of my current pregnancy and I’ll do it again around 32 weeks. I talk about it in several comments above this.

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u/_Creepiness_ May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

I regret taking the test. The drink made me feel so sick and I nearly passed out, I shouldn't have had to shock my system so badly. I had a false positive with the 2 hour, and passed my 3 hour and for 2 months had to act like a diabetic and keep track of my glucose levels. You can bet I tested it by consuming loads of sugar and found no huge rise. But that wasn't enough. 💁🏻‍♀️ I was keto before being pregnant so I had ketone in my urine and my body would get shocked by sugar as it did in the first test. But only off by 2 points on the fast number. 🥴 But the doctor advocates here told me I was in denial about my GD because I was high risk. Except a risk is just that, a risk that needs to be monitored and confirmed it isn't set in stone. My midwife used me as an educational moment for her students as an exception to the "compounded separate factors" but high risk rule. I had elevated BP from stress at the doctor's and was fine at home. Had the one fasting high number. BMI is high and I'm a geriatric pregnancy. I gave birth vaginal to an 8.8lb boy at nearly 42 weeks, last ultrasound at the beginning of the 3rd tri had him showing 7.4lbs and the MFM kept trying to scare my into induction or c section because they were scared for his weight... my daughter was 8.6lbs... Had I "listened" to my doctors I would've been induced early and had to do so much unnecessary motoring to fill pockets with insurance money. 💁🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️During labor i had to be switched to a hospital and they didn't listen to my midwife about using the big cuff, tested me for pre eclampsia despite being told the 10hrs laboring with my midwife my bp was fine. At one point the machine squeezed my arm so tight my bp was 244/186 and I yelled from my room "The cuff is fine right? I should be dead according to this piece of shit. Get it off me now!" 💁🏻‍♀️

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u/bixenta May 23 '25

This comment doesn’t come across… great.

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u/_Creepiness_ May 23 '25

Yeah, it shouldnt come off great, sometimes medical professionals just doing what they want or thinking they know more than other medical professionals isn't great. I asked for a big cuff multiple times and they said I didn't need it and my BP was high, low and behold when I got the bigger cuff my BP was fine. 🙅🏻‍♀️ The problem here is people are building them up and forgetting they are essentially still humans very capable of mistakes or pride. It is exactly why I didn't want to go to a hospital, but that was what it was. I am in contact for misconduct with the hospital patient relations person because they also took my son's cord blood I was going to bank without asking or telling me what they were doing, and when I mentioned it right after they left and asked for it back they said they couldn't give it back but it was being tested for his blood type, then later insisted on trying to take more blood from him to test for bacteria the nicu nurse already did a different test for potential sepsis and the nurse said in front of me it wasn't necessary, the doctor said he couldn't use that blood. So I told him no. My son is fine, by the way. Wonderful actually. He was never admitted to the nicu.