As I logged in to the hospital on-line website this morning to check all my blood tests results were ok after the first midwife appointment, I wasn’t worried. My bloods have always been ok (apart from the menopause related numbers obviously), so I was thrown when it said my glucose levels were raised and they needed to do a proper test for gestational diabetes?!? Oh god, another thing to worry about! My first thought was all the food I’d been eating (and admittedly it hasn’t all been healthy) had caused this. Why have I been such a pig! What if I’m causing damage to the baby?? Frantic googling put my mind at ease slightly as it seems if you didn’t have certain risk factors before you were pregnant (which I didn’t apart from being over 25 which there’s not a lot I can do about), it’s unlikely that you have caused your pregnancy diabetes. Also, the test results said the reference range was for fasting samples only and they didn’t tell me to fast, so maybe that had an effect. But the main thing that eased the panic was my consultant, who said, after I emailed her to let her know, that the steroid I’m on can temporarily raise glucose levels so it should be fine once I’m off that, which will be at the beginning of March. This didn’t happen last time though so I’m still a bit worried. They’ve booked me in for the fasting test next week, so we’ll see what that says, but for now it’s given me a right kick up the arse to ditch the biscuits and head to the fruit bowl. [EDIT: They postponed the fasting glucose test until I had been off the steroids for a few weeks and those results all came back normal, so looks like it was the steroids. Phew!)]