What are the chances of getting gestational diabetes in first pregnancy?

Other risk factors: Risk factors for gestational diabetes include your weight, your age, your and your parents history of diabetes/abnormal blood sugars, and your ethnicity. Also there are other diseases, which if you have a history of, are directly associated with diabetes themselves.

Depends on many fact: Gestational diabetes is the result of excessive sugar and carbohydrate intake which causes high blood sugar levels, which then make your Insulin levels rise. Plus the hormone changes in preg make prob worse. . Over time the chronically high Insulin levels lead to Insulin resistance and you will need to make higher and higher levels of insulin. A no sugar, low carb diet will reduce your chances.