Having a doctor you like helps a lot :) Good luck! You sound like you’re doing well.

Yeah I wish I had done better when I was done breastfeeding too. Totally pissed it all away and gained it back. Fingers crossed it happens again and I'll treasure it this time!

Day by day, it seems that the safest thing to do is not to eat anything at all while pregnant.

Fuck that. I’m 35 weeks along right now, and if someone tries to take away my pierogies I will cut a bitch.

Yes. It was. It was meaningless to me because MY SUGARS WERE STILL HIGH SO WHO CARES WHO’S FAULT IT WAS. Sorry. I’m having flashbacks.

I highly recommend Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” if you want to feel not-crazy. I was nervous my first time around, so I followed ALL the “rules” out there, but her book made me feel better for being pissed at how ridiculous it all was!

Not exactly sure of the HOW - yet taking french fries away from pregnant women reeks of some vast GOP/patriarchy conspiracy.

This is such utter bullshit. You know what causes gestational diabetes? Being genetically predisposed to actual diabetes/metabolic syndromes.

Got pregnant while I was already overweight. Ate plenty of potatoes and my only craving was for sweets which I didn’t really have before. So I usually had dessert any time we were out. I didn’t eat much junk like fast food but I definitely treated myself with good food since I couldn’t have fun boozes.

Current prego here. I am high risk, and so completely not allowing myself alcohol. I literally yearn for every glass of red wine a TV or movie character drinks. The other day I kept kissing my husband as he drank his beer, jsut to taste it.

It’s also your placenta’s fault. That’s what my doctor kept reminding me when I would get upset when my sugars were not in control.

I had gestational diabetes in all of my pregnancies and I have never really eaten any potatoes. But I do have other risk factors that made it happen.

This is almost verbatim what went through my mind reading this article.

This is such b.s. When I was pregnant, french fries were like the ONLY vice I was allowed (no wine, no sushi, no stinky cheese, no freaking cold cuts). We are working on #2 right now, and if/when I get pregnant I promise you that I will pretend I never read this.

HAHAHAHAHA! Screw you experts! All I ate were poutines, potato skins and anything else with grease or starch. I gained quite a bit of weight but no diabetes.

RIP to the first guy who shows this to his pregnant wife when she mentions wanting needing a Super Sized fry from McDonald’s.

Disappointed:

*Faints*

Bloody hell, eat regular food, try to get exercise daily, don’t booze it up, and lay off the smokes. The odd glass of wine and your basic three squares a day and you’re good to go. I ate bleu cheese and all sorts of stuff that I was apparently not supposed to eat. My kids are healthy as horses and rarely get ill. And…

Seriously though, we’ve got to bring back and improve home economics. What would you teach? That should be the discussion here.