Doesn gestational diabetes usually appear in mid to late pregnancy?
The reason I ask is b/c I suspect that I was a diabetic for about a year now–my doctors recommended I be tested for it, and I never was until I found out that I was pregnant. I failed the test and they diagnosed me as a gestational diabetic when I was only 6 weeks pregnant. I thought that gestational diabetes only appeared in late pregnancies, so now I’m wondering if I had diabetes pre-pregnancy or it this could really be only gestational diabetes. Any advice is appreciated. I was tested b/c of having two babies that were over 9 pounds–I’m in my normal weight range for my height. A: Although there is no way to know for certain, yes, I think you are right in that you quite possibly already had diabetes BEFORE you became pregnant. *Usually* people are more insulin sensitive early on in pregnancy, so if your blood sugars were elevated that early on, there is a very good chance you already had full blown diabetes. I also suspect this because your doctors “recommended you be tested for it
