Gestational diabetes: 'Absolutely nobody in my family has diabetes. I was very healthy'

Gestational diabetes is a common condition among mums to be. Comedian Julie Jay tells Helen O’Callaghan about her experience

Comedian Julie Jay from Dingle West Kerry pictured at her home in Dingle Co Kerry on a wet summer's day.

COMEDIAN Julie Jay loves being a mammy and she can’t believe she and husband Fred Cooke are getting to do it again, with their second baby expected next month.

“We really can’t wait. We’re super-excited — and very excited for Ted that he’ll have somebody else to play with,” she says of her toddler who turns three in September.