May be a dumb question, but can eating too much sugar during pregnancy cause gestational diabetes?
I’m 26 weeks now and I have the glucose test coming up in a week or so. I couldn’t help eating a bag of sour gummy worms. I don’t really eat to much sugar, but I drink a lot of oj, and grape juice. What causes gestational diabetes? A: If you have the predisposition for gestational diabetes, your diet will absolutely affect whether you get it. If you don’t have that predisposition, you could eat ice cream all day and it wouldn’t “cause” it. But you don’t know if you are likely to get it unless you had it in an earlier pregnancy, or it runs in your family. So until you’re tested, it’s a good idea to avoid big loads of sugar just in case you do have glucose intolerance. OJ and grape juice are two of the most hard-hitting fast sugars that you can ingest. That’s what they prescribe diabetics whose blood sugars are falling into coma level because it can raise them so quickly. If you have reason to think you might end up with gestational diabetes then you’d want to cut those out of your diet,
