Gestational Diabetes - numbers advice

[Littletreeboots]

Hi

I was diagnosed with GD a fortnight ago. So far my numbers have been good, sometimes low with fasting reads below 4, after dinner readings of 5-6.
Yesterday I ate somewhat ‘normal’ and wasn’t anywhere near as restrictive on advice from a midwife who said just test it out.
My fasting today was 5.3 and my 1 hour after breakfast was 7.8. Could yesterdays food of knocked it out of sync, or is this just natural progression of GD?

thank you

Hi, I’m no expert with this but below is what I’ve experienced. I was diagnosed at 27 weeks after failing the GTT, fasting was fine but second test was slightly over. I’m now 31+3 and have been testing for the last four weeks, initially everything was green, I made changes to diet and go on walks after meals etc. and this was working however then my fasting numbers started to go red ( 5.3-5.6) but after meal readings are still fine. I’ve now started on 500 mg of metformin to help with fasting readings and was told it can take some time to take effect. Since then I’ve gotten a mixture of reds and greens but it’s still early days. I think for me they said after three highs they would recommend increasing the dose again so I’m waiting to see. There have been days where I eat exactly the same thing and still get very different readings. I think also the amount of sleep impacts my readings. I think I’ve read it’s likely the numbers will increase anyway from 32-35 weeks. At first I was quite upset about the whole thing but now gotten used to it more.

How far along are you? It does get harder to control as you get further into the pregnancy. I personally found the first and second trimester easy to manage and then when the third trimester hit my fasting readings were not controllable and now on 1g of metformin a day at 35 weeks.

It's hard to know whether its progressing or whether what you ate caused the readings so I think you'd need to keep testing for a few more days to have a better idea.