Importance of glucose testing in pregnancy
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“Due to my previous two pregnancies and having large babies and I wasn’t given a Glucose Tolerance Test at 28 weeks, and so when I had my last pregnancy and birth it was really traumatic. So I wanted a GTT in this pregnancy so they should have screened but didn’t because my sister’s a Type 1 Diabetic, so I know a fair bit about it. And then the coronavirus obviously started and then they stopped the Glucose Tolerance Test which worried me”
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“I’m obviously aware that it’s, you know, it’s a risk during pregnancy. And, I think, because of my BMI I was probably going to be, supposed to be tested for it, anyway, so, yeah. Also, because I have a chocolate habit, so a bit paranoid that I’ve given myself gestational diabetes.” |
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Limiting time in hospital
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“Yeah, I would actually because it was really quick and easy way of doing it. So I’d say that’s probably a good, rather than having to wait around the hospital and wait two hours, it was a really good way of doing it I suppose.”
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“I think like in this, like in the case of during this pandemic time and everything I think this is much convenient than the people who are not working, or who are not in direct contact with their hospital, or some of the people who may be needing shielding and everything, so for that, people I think, like glucose monitoring at home will be much better than sitting at the hospital.” |
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“Yes, I mean previously when I’ve had glucose testing done with my older daughter, you used to have to sort of wait around in the hospital to get results back, so it was quite nice to actually have the little chip put in and then leave and do it from home, so I thought that was actually quite nice rather than sitting around in a hospital. And at the moment obviously no-one wants to be doing that because of Covid and I know obviously for yours and your colleague’s point of view it’s safer not to be there and totally understandable, so yes that was absolutely fine and worked quite well actually.”
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“Definitely, I can imagine, yeah, I can imagine that compared to having to sit in the hospital for hours, it’s much nicer just to be at home and just to be in the comfort of my own home to do it. I also felt quite reassured by the fact that my blood sugars were being monitored for a whole week, and I thought that, that you would have more data to look at. So obviously, I mean, depending on the results of the study, but I, my guess is that, I would have thought it was quite a good way of monitoring people” |
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Comfort of doing in a home setting
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“it’s quite nice where you can sort of do it from the comfort of your own home and it’s, you know, quite a relaxed sort of routine, so yeah I couldn’t see any reason why not, I would recommend it, yes.” |
