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What is Gestational Diabetes?
A: Gestational diabetes is a kind of diabetes that comes on during pregnancy and goes away after labor and delivery. It affects about 4% of all pregnant women, according to the American Diabetes Association. Gestational diabetes is often diagnosed on screening tests done between weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy. While doctors aren't sure what causes gestational diabetes, it is believed that hormones from the placenta may block the action of insulin in the mother. This means that the mother needs more insulin, and sometimes, her pancreas cannot make enough to transport the sugar in the blood into the cells for energy. The mother's blood has high levels of glucose, and that extra glucose can cross the placenta, giving the growing baby a high blood sugar level.
In response, the baby's pancreas starts making extra insulin to transport the sugar into the cells to be used for energy. When the pancreas can't keep up, the extra blood sugar is stored as fat on the baby, and that can lead to health problems for the unborn baby. Infants of diabetic mothers are at risk for abnormal growth, premature delivery, and breathing problems, among other things.
If your doctor diagnoses you with gestational diabetes, it's likely that you'll be started on a treatment plan aimed at getting glucose levels under control. This includes a plan to manage your nutrition, physical activity, and weight gain.
While most diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy resolves after delivery, some women will have gestational diabetes during future pregnancies as well. And some who are diagnosed while pregnant may actually have been diabetic before the pregnancy. In these cases, the diabetes does not disappear after delivery.

I developed my gestational diabetes as early as my 6th week...that's probably because I'm overweight and pregnant -- which makes me high risk.. I started with blood sugar monitoring 3x a week, insulin shots a couple of weeks after for 2x a day, increasing dosage every 2weeks. It's hard, knowing that I have a sweet tooth. But what can I do? I hafta do what I hafta do...this is for my baby...no time for me...no time alone... 6 1/2 months on my pregnancy, work ups, medicines, check ups... it's all good... I pray my baby boy grows up to be a brave God fearing man that I want him to be :)

Pregnantly Discriminated

...."An employer cannot refuse to hire a pregnant woman because of her pregnancy, because of a pregnancy-related condition or because of the prejudices of co-workers, clients, or customers."

I've read this labor code, which is very much applicable in the Philippines on the powerful internet. I've been doing a lot of soul searching these past few days, weeks, months... I am currently 6 1/2 months pregnant and I feel that my company refuses to regularize me because I'm pregnant.. Although I have an option to resign, how sure am I that a company will be accepting my services knowing that I will be filing for a maternity leave before my 6th month with them? Is this a clear cut of discrimination?

Based on our Labor Code:
Article 137. Prohibited acts. (a) It shall be unlawful for any employer:
(1) To deny any woman employee the benefits provided for in this Chapter or to discharge any woman employed by him for the purpose of preventing her from enjoying any of the benefits provided under this Code;
(2) To discharge such woman on account of her pregnancy, while on leave or in confinement due to her pregnancy; or
(3) To discharge or refuse the admission of such woman upon returning to her work for fear that she may again be pregnant

Currently, I am looking and very much open for options outside my current company. I crave for a normal life...I want to be with my kid in the evening and be able to sleep beside him everyday...it pains me to think that by continuously working the graveyard shift, my kid would grow up not knowing or experiencing having a mother that would wake up in the middle of the night to feed him...

It's hard not to have a job...as per my husband, he thinks that it's not practical for me to stop working and leave all the money making to him... I think so too... well, I'm thinking of options as well and it's really not easy...

I'll let you know what happens......everything will work out soon... :)