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Lollipops23 said:
Jesus Niamh Lynch is like the Bogie Woman with all this.
As long as the PP machine is cleaned well and maintained (filter changed) and bottles are properly sterilised it’s grand.
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To be fair she did say she’s only sharing information. I watched the demo at the baby fair and it adds the 70 degree “hot shot” then you add the formula and mix, then it tops up with cool water to the right amount. I never used one here but they seem very popular!
 

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Tbh I think its more targeted to the likes of the baby brezza which adds the powder also. Those things are awful. Lots of instances where it wasn't adding the correct amounts and babies even getting malnourished.

The tommee tippee machine adds the shot of hot water (70 degrees) first and then you manually add the powder. The logic is that hot water sterilises the formula but does not damage the milk proteins. 70 degrees is what the HSE recommend hot water to.

The cold water is then filtered and added.

There's a big difference between the perfect prep machine and the baby brezza type!
 
derbygail said:
Wonder why she’s being called gestational diabetes test? It’s not standard with CUMH
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I was in for it recently- in my case baby's tummy was measuring big, and there's Type1 in my family, so they brought me in. You do have to drink the concoction and then wait an hour and get blood drawn. If the reading comes back high you're back again for a longer, more arduous test that lasts hours and they take loads of blood.
I hope for her sake she doesn't need to do the latter, it was awful!!
 
Lollipops23 said:
I was in for it recently- in my case baby's tummy was measuring big, and there's Type1 in my family, so they brought me in. You do have to drink the concoction and then wait an hour and get blood drawn. If the reading comes back high you're back again for a longer, more arduous test that lasts hours and they take loads of blood.
I hope for her sake she doesn't need to do the latter, it was awful!!
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Oh god that sounds horrendous
 
Lollipops23 said:
I was in for it recently- in my case baby's tummy was measuring big, and there's Type1 in my family, so they brought me in. You do have to drink the concoction and then wait an hour and get blood drawn. If the reading comes back high you're back again for a longer, more arduous test that lasts hours and they take loads of blood.
I hope for her sake she doesn't need to do the latter, it was awful!!
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The 3 hour test is far more accurate though. The 1 hour has such a high fail rate and in my hospital your GDM and that’s it 😬

Some hospitals have a list, pcos, high bmi, previous history or diabetes in the family are the reasons you’d be called. Out hospital is “random” but any pregnant woman I know is called 🤦🏻‍♀️
 
Tinybops said:
The 3 hour test is far more accurate though. The 1 hour has such a high fail rate and in my hospital your GDM and that’s it 😬

Some hospitals have a list, pcos, high bmi, previous history or diabetes in the family are the reasons you’d be called. Out hospital is “random” but any pregnant woman I know is called 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Yeah I've heard tell of them lowering the level they call you back for further tests.

I failed the first (1 hour) one and was absolutely bricking it. When I got through the 3/4 hour one with sound results I was incredibly relieved but also annoyed that I'd been put through that stress and worry for nothing really.
 
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Tinybops said:
The 3 hour test is far more accurate though. The 1 hour has such a high fail rate and in my hospital your GDM and that’s it 😬

Some hospitals have a list, pcos, high bmi, previous history or diabetes in the family are the reasons you’d be called. Out hospital is “random” but any pregnant woman I know is called 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Everyone over 30 has it routinely in my hosp!
 
derbygail said:
Wonder why she’s being called gestational diabetes test? It’s not standard with CUMH
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Doesn't she have PCOS? Or am I imagining that. I was tested because of PCOS increases the risk of getting it. But hospitals have other reasons like high BMI, history of diabetes in the family and I think some are called because of their age.
 
gotstogo said:
Doesn't she have PCOS? Or am I imagining that. I was tested because of PCOS increases the risk of getting it. But hospitals have other reasons like high BMI, history of diabetes in the family and I think some are called because of their age.
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I was borderline for bmi and age but I asked , they didn’t really want to test me but they are allowing it.. my last baby was a big baby so I’m a bit worried for myself 😂
 
Lollipops23 said:
Yeah I've heard tell of them lowering the level they call you back for further tests.

I failed the first (1 hour) one and was absolutely bricking it. When I got through the 3/4 hour one with sound results I was incredibly relieved but also annoyed that I'd been put through that stress and worry for nothing really.
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I failed the 1 hour my last pregnancy and that was it, given a glucometer and away I was sent! It took me 6 weeks to get the 3hr test and I passed it no issues 🙄 I’ve never had an issue so it was very frustrating to explain to every doctor/midwife that I didn’t actually have it. Don’t know if I’ll even bother this pregnancy, it’s a stressful thing to be labeled with unnecessarily 🤦🏻‍♀️
 
Indeed- already (stupidly) felt like a failure.

I know we're all generally older and heavier having babies these days, but surely the should just screen the really high glucose women?
 
Lollipops23 said:
Indeed- already (stupidly) felt like a failure.

I know we're all generally older and heavier having babies these days, but surely the should just screen the really high glucose women?
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Everyone should be screened but again comes down to resources , I know a girl who had no idea she had it and thought she had a low risk pregnancy as thats what she was told and led to believe until she went into labour and turns out baby was huge due to the GD and had to spend time in the NICU and have all sorts of brain scans etc
 
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