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I have GD. Second time have had with baby 3 and 4. My doctor has me test 4 times a day. A fasting reading before eating anything. and then 2 hours after each meal. When you go in to meet with the diabetes person they will go over the cause, what GD is and how to do your readings and how to meal plan. I have to take metphormine but because I have PCOD. They usually like to see if you can control it with diet and excercise. The worst part about it is the poking every day. I was given a meter for free. the lancets or pretty cheap if insurance wont cover them. The testing strips run me $20 dollars for 50 with insurance. Best of luck to you.

Sorry cut off. Good luck. I'm from Austraila so don't know how your medical works. Once the baby was born it went away. Tell your family to bring chocolate to the hospital when they visit lol
I lost 20kgs so it wasn't all bad :-)

I had GD with my baby who's now 5 months it too was diagnosed after the 3hr test. I was at increased risk due to age. I was given a metre and booklets free and attended a class and was taught & shown what to do. The strips & needles were supplied at a heavily discounted rate. I had to prick myself 6x a day one hour after meals and keep a record of my food intake so I knew what elevated my levels. You have to be so disaplined with breakfast morning tea lunch afternoon tea,dinner & supper small very small meals and only good quality healthy food. I was lucky and totally commited to eating well that I was one of two woman out of my whole class that managed it all through diet control all the others failed and had to go on to the injections. At the end of the day you are doing this for your baby so they aren't effected with ongoing health issues. Once my daughter was born she had heal pricks while in the hospital to check her levels :-( needles in their little heals :-( good l

I haven't been diagnosed yet but my husband is diabetic and I know it;s slightly different than GD. However, our insurance covered most of the cost of the supplies and medication (he takes Metformin). I think we paid like $20 for the test strips and the meters he has were all free. I think we probably paid around $10 for the medication. He has to take insulin too and that's crazy pricey and not a lot of women who get GD have to do that so I won't even bother with that. I would assume they will have you start doing blood sugar readings after that go everything with you and he was having to take them before and after each meal. Eventually, he was only having to take readings about 3 times a day. Again, I know it differs with GD but that's just an idea. The focus for him is limiting carbs so he was given a booklet about how to eat better. It's not easy to change your diet but once you can do that, it's not too bad to control blood sugar.