Gestational diabetes quickly healed

Kathryn Green

The year 1999 was a wonderful year for our family with the addition of our first child. Each day of my pregnancy gave me the opportunity to understand more about God's creation and eternal life.

I realized that God nourished both my baby and me.

At the time, we lived in an area that required me to go to the hospital to have the baby. I made regular visits to a physician.

At one point during my pregnancy, the doctor told me that I had diabetes. He asked me to return a few days later to be retested and to start a treatment involving daily injections of insulin.

The first concern that I had to overcome was the feeling that this request set up a time frame—a few days—in which I needed to be healed. But I knew that no matter what medical science required me to do, I could still pray. The second concern was that this disease would cause the child to grow too large and cause complications with the birth.

I turned to God in prayer and truly realized that God nourished both of us; His thoughts were what fed us. A hymn by Mary Baker Eddy says it so well: "Fed by Thy love divine we live,/For Love alone is Life..." (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 30).

The next doctor's examination, a few days later, revealed no diabetes.

When I was a week away from delivery, the doctor told me that the child was of perfect size and that he wanted to induce labor. I declined, knowing that God had already created His child and that I would see evidence of this in God's time. A week later, our daughter, Larson, was born quickly and without complications.

There have been many times throughout the months following Larson's arrival when I have had to turn wholeheartedly to God to eliminate my fears about her well-being. At one point she began spitting up what seemed to be most of what I fed her, and I became afraid she was not getting enough nourishment.

The ideas that helped me were, first of all, this passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator" (p. 491). And, also, the story in the Bible in the book of Daniel about four prisoners who refused the king's meat. The Bible says that through their faith in the sustaining power of God, "...their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat" (1:15).

The inspiration from these passages helped calm my fears, and Larson's spitting up ended.

I am deeply grateful for the inspiration and wisdom God gives us to solve every problem.

Kathryn Green
Atlanta, Georgia

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