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First time mums

Baby Growth!

Hi all!

I’m 31 weeks pregnant now, and was diagnosed with GD At 28th week. ( I failed my 1hour and 2hours by borderline. Baseline and 3 hours were within range)

I have been regularly monitoring my blood glucose levels, and they were always within range with the regular food I eat ( I eat home made food most of the time and include protein in every meal)

I had a growth scan today, and they said the growth was 5 percentile, the baby weight was 3.1 lbs. I don’t understand this because in my scan at 24 weeks the growth was 28 percentile .

I’m on a twice a week stress test with every week scan now. Today they did check organs again and blood flow to placenta, and stress test. All of which had a good response and they said nothing to be worried about .

I have been so conscious since I was 14 weeks about my food, and regularly did prenatal yoga to be active and try and have a Vaginal birth without induction. But now they say they will induce at 38/39 weeks.

Has anyone been through this ?What can we do to help the growth of the baby? While I understand we need to be flexible because anything may happen during labor and birth, I have been manifesting and practicing so much to have a normal vaginal delivery without induction.

Anyone here who had a less growth percentile and have delivered without induction ?