I’d like for you to not gain much weight this pregnancy. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Just take any prenatal, it really doesn’t matter. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Stop eating bananas and rice, you have gestational diabetes 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Blaming yourself for developing gestational diabetes 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Insulin… ❌ shouldn’t be pushed on someone ❌ doesn’t mean you’re a failure ✅ gives the body and mind a rest ✅ is safe for you and baby

In case you needed to hear this, your first trimester nausea and carb-based diet did not cause your gestational diabetes.

PSA: if you’re only focusing on how foods impact your blood sugars then you didn’t understand the assignment. Movement, sleep, hydration, stress, and hormones all influence blood sugar control.

All I want for Christmas is… 🍗 to tolerate chicken again 🧃 to pass my glucose test 🔥 no more acid reflux 🤰 no touching or comments about my baby bump Happy almost Christmas, mamas!

FYI- being in a larger body doesn’t mean you eat unhealthy, will have gestational diabetes, or have a complicated pregnancy or birth.

Each month has 30 or 31 days… Except January and the last month of pregnancy which have 1,487

Truth: disordered eating in pregnancy is more common than gestational diabetes. Just like GDM, disordered eating doesn’t have a “look”, so if we are screening for one of these, shouldn’t we be screening for the other?

If you just got diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and it’s days before you meet with a dietitian or MFM, stop and read this. You don’t need to eliminate carbs. You did not cause this. You are probably doing a lot of great things for your health already.

Reminder to all the infant and toddler moms out there- If you are feeding your child, you need to also be feeding yourself. We can’t show up for them if we don’t show up for ourselves.

Seeing elevated post-meal blood sugars or struggling with insulin resistance? I’ve got a trick for you 👇 Have a serving of veggies and protein BEFORE you eat your carbs. This helps decrease glucose spikes, provides more stable energy, and helps get in more nutrients!

Just so you know, you’re a great mama-to-be regardless of what your blood sugars did yesterday 😘

Fruits to avoid if you have gestational diabetes: 🍉NONE! 🍑 Seriously 🍇 Even the “sugar bomb” fruits All fruits can be enjoyed with GDM. Embrace summer fruit season 😘

It’s okay to feel nervous going into your glucose test. But remember that the result doesn’t define you.

Reasons your fasting blood sugar might be high in pregnancy: - too carb-restricted during the day - sleep habits are all over the place - pain is limiting your mobility - constant stress about GDM - your diet is falling short on protein, fiber, and fat

Things my pregnant clients will never hear me say: You shouldn’t ever have dessert Don’t have more than 2 snacks/day You really need to watch your calories You’re gaining too much weight Can’t you just exercise more?

Gestational diabetes is a state of carbohydrate intolerance. But that doesn’t have to mean complete carbohydrate avoidance. There’s a difference.