tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post5410349683627747487..comments2024-03-05T11:36:50.299-05:00Comments on Stand and Deliver: Michel Odent on GDRixahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908864785513937876noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-4132793885536238092013-11-16T06:43:33.017-05:002013-11-16T06:43:33.017-05:00I knew you'd be the one to have the good info!...I knew you'd be the one to have the good info! They want me to take the test and with Sofia, of course I was so scared of everything that I just did as I was told and I ended up having to take the three hour test only to find out that I'm completely fine.<br /><br />This time, I'm eating even healthier than I did with Sofia, and I've been around the block and I'm looking twice at the GTT. Of course I came to your site and you didn't disappoint! I'm going to do more research but I'm really leaning towards refusing this test. I don't even eat sugar like that anyway! The most I have is honey in an occasional glass of tea or when cooking and the recipe calls for it. I have to wonder at the accuracy of a test that causes a 'false' spike in my glucose levels, you know?Desireehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17783433189150911236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-9620657363583760872012-04-08T09:53:09.754-04:002012-04-08T09:53:09.754-04:00Hi my 1st son was 10lbs 6oz, but we had no problem...Hi my 1st son was 10lbs 6oz, but we had no problems other than a hyper-medicalised birth which cause me so much trauma. Our son is now 7yrs old and very healthy, has always been well above the 90th percentile for weight, height and head circumference. But simply because he was big (not fat, just broad and long) and the fact that I eat too much (even though the food I eat is healthy and I exercise for at least an hour most days) they are insisting I take a GTT. I am contemplating refusing on the basis that I feel fantastic, and baby is growing perfectly (recently had the 12 week U/S scan). Why do I need to do something when we are doing great, it is just worrying me, I will need to take a long time off work for it, and because taking blood makes me feel really ill (I have a phobia of blood) I may miss a full day just because of some made-up diagnosis. Before they do the GTT at 28weeks they want to do a fasting glucose test too, so that's more time off work&mental trauma. Seriously considering a complete refusal, it seems a waste of time, energy, resources and a lot of stress on my part.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-60718862997551831522010-12-16T00:53:17.375-05:002010-12-16T00:53:17.375-05:00I had missed you posting this originally so I was ...I had missed you posting this originally so I was glad you referred to it in your recent post! I'm waist deep in the GD issue right now and am similar to you;<br />third baby<br />high fasting blood sugar levels<br />eat really well normally<br />ambiguous feelings about the issue of GD.<br /><br />Here's where I'm different, I'm tiny and I've had 2 large babies. 9 lbs and 10 lbs 2 oz, respectively. I refused testing my first two pregnancies but this time I opted to have it done based on the 10 lber (who didn't have the classic GD 'look' and had no trouble regulating his sugar after birth, but who DID have sticky shoulders).<br /><br />I'm so torn. I've no idea what to do, I live in Western Canada so I can have a midwife attended hospital birth, but was shooting for a home birth. (I'm a 2nd time VBACer so it's hard to find a midwife who will catch an HBAC here, even though it's within their legal scope: my midwife is a naturopath and wonderful midwife and is very comfortable attending HBACs, especially proven ones).<br /><br />My diet is SO good, and my daytime sugars are perfect. It's that morning fasting one I can't seem to manipulate no matter what.<br /><br />I'd like to ask Dr Odent what he thinks of my type of situation; diet is very healthy, active individual, normal body weight, just a crappy pancreas. Tired Beta cells.<br />=(<br /><br />Dunno what to do....melissa v.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14872177586401321895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-54477000085076492512009-12-07T14:57:59.068-05:002009-12-07T14:57:59.068-05:00I am another one who greatly appreciates your post...I am another one who greatly appreciates your posting this! I like it so much that I have linked to it on my website as well! Thanks so much for making it available!<br /><br />I would also like to offer this link to my "Gestational Diabetes" web page for more details, for anyone who might be interested...<br /><br />http://www.drbrewerpregnancydiet.com/id33.html <br /><br />Best wishes,<br />JoyJJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01527465589217958955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-6124675731724400442009-10-11T00:24:35.758-04:002009-10-11T00:24:35.758-04:00You're not cool till Dr Amy hates you. :)
Cong...You're not cool till Dr Amy hates you. :)<br />Congratulations, Rixa.WiseWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10339841433199041747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-64067097498642087512009-08-12T08:41:14.484-04:002009-08-12T08:41:14.484-04:00I was glad to stumble across your blog- I've b...I was glad to stumble across your blog- I've been planning on rejecting the GD testing coming up in a few weeks and needed something to really firm up that decision in my mind and you've done it! <br /><br />Thanks for posting this, it's made a big difference :) There just ISN'T enough "non conventional" wisdom available on line, so I'm glad you're voice is coming through!Astraiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391820588688055523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-28786661014878924932009-01-27T11:11:00.000-05:002009-01-27T11:11:00.000-05:00Thank you for offering this article on your site. ...Thank you for offering this article on your site. I had a hard time finding it and really need it to arm myself when talking with my hospital midwives about not taking this test and that I should have no limitations on the natural nonintervetion birth I am choosing. THanks agian! I hope someday the medical field will see birth in a different way. If my hubby wasn't so afraid of a HB we would be birthing at home. ~ StephAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-77883870201970702142008-01-19T19:42:00.000-05:002008-01-19T19:42:00.000-05:00Rixa,You are famous!Dr Amy has now decided on her ...Rixa,<BR/>You are famous!<BR/><BR/>Dr Amy has now decided on her increasingly hysterical blog to take you on!~<BR/><BR/>http://homebirthdebate.blogspot.com/2008/01/homebirth-advocates-look-at-gestational.html<BR/><BR/>She and her cultish commenters have been using every verbal trick possible to diss homebirth advocacy. As they scream and yell about midwives, Ricki Lake, and all things related to our movement, the absolute willingness to dump on everything we hold sacred just gets louder and more intense.<BR/><BR/>It is almost like she can feel her power slipping through her fingers. With the publication of each blog entry, each story in the media, each documentary shouting to women that they have a choice in health care...she grows more crazed in her attempts to make us look bad.<BR/><BR/>She says to young moms who bother to post in her comments,<BR/><BR/>"You have DONE NOTHING special by breaking away from the birth machine, you are nothing, you have nothing to celebrate, nothing to crow about, nothing to write, blog, and sing about."<BR/><BR/>" In fact, you are nothing, you know nothing, you have no credentials, and your mothering is a danger to the children entrusted to your care"<BR/><BR/>It would be so funny if it weren't so pathetic. She just continues to yell and belittle and scream and you know what? With her comments about your blog post, you should understand that you have joined a wonderful club.<BR/><BR/>She has taken so much time dissing the Fathers and Mothers of the holistic birth movement.<BR/><BR/>Grantly Dick-Read, Robert Bradley, Tom Brewer, Michael Odent, Henci Goer, Marsden Wagner, etc. etc...<BR/><BR/>She only takes on those people who are making a difference in the lives of families.<BR/><BR/>I just wanted to give you a pat on the back Rixa and let you know that I love you and your blog and it is the truth that will set us free from the enslavement of the Obstetric profession.<BR/><BR/>Dr. Amy is just one little fly festering on the wall, buzzing, spitting, spewing her venom at anything good and whole and real. I still believe she gets a very large check every month for writing her blog and posting EVERYWHERE on the internet against home birth. <BR/><BR/>Just don't let her stump ya. <BR/><BR/>She is nothing.<BR/><BR/>Love, JennyJenny Hatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16220232445017546387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-86615349149491670042008-01-17T16:48:00.000-05:002008-01-17T16:48:00.000-05:00FABULOUS article!! I loved this. It just makes s...FABULOUS article!! I loved this. It just makes such beautiful sense. Have you ever read anything about Dr. Tom Brewer's Blue Ribbon Baby diet? I think it's got a lot of very useful nutritional information in it. I am really enjoying this discussion on GD. I have been having similar thoughts about hyperbilirubinemia in neonates (wondering just how "dangerous" this condition is and how much we are harming infants through the use of ultraviolet photo therapy). Like GD, I think we have created a monster.Team Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07351640101914132656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-85829110921146728002008-01-17T16:30:00.000-05:002008-01-17T16:30:00.000-05:00actually --to answer my own question-- I looked at...actually --to answer my own question-- I looked at the reference and that's correct. Well, shows how much I know about GD or the GD diet!Judithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01310462426087335112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-60083488031471385132008-01-17T16:10:00.000-05:002008-01-17T16:10:00.000-05:00Thank you for sharing this article. It is one of ...Thank you for sharing this article. It is one of my favorite ones. :)Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01903424474606383894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-14904077989801005542008-01-17T16:05:00.000-05:002008-01-17T16:05:00.000-05:00"no risk of having high birth weight babies if the..."no risk of having high birth weight babies if the daily consumption of carbohydrates is above 210g a day"<BR/><BR/>NO risk with ABOVE 210 mg/day?<BR/>Is this a typo?Judithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01310462426087335112noreply@blogger.com