My children were a bit heavier, because that's a risk when you have diabetes, so they had Caesarean births."
Libby Dowling, a senior clinical advisor at Diabetes UK, says: "You need to have regular appointments with midwives when you have gestational diabetes.
"Medics will provide you with a blood sugar monitor and show you how to use it to make sure you are OK.
"Anybody can develop gestational diabetes, but women from South Asian backgrounds, those who have family history of the condition and being overweight are all linked to developing it. And if you are at risk, the NHS do a test for it."
In many cases, sugar levels can return to normal after the baby is born. But researchers at Diabetes UK say having had gestational diabetes does make type 2 diabetes more likely. That was the case for Shaida, who is now in her early 40s.