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Those are really high numbers for pregnancy. Most women lose blood sugar quickly, because the baby sucks everything from them. Women with GD have numbers like yours.

If it were a bad day, they'll have you track your numbers and hopefully it can all be diet controlled. But, if there's a need for insulin as your pregnancy progresses, that's ok, too.

It depends what you ate for dinner, too. You NEED to eat carbs, so that your liver doesn't produce glucose for you...you need to give your body the glucose from your food. BUT, you need insulin to "unlock" the glucose and get it to where it needs to be (and not in your blood and headed straight for your baby!) For dinner, you should be eating about 45g of carbs. If you only had a bit of carbs, and more protein and fat, you won't get the reading you need on the glucose meter.

Don't be scared of GD and tests. Diagnosing it is a really good thing. I've been the victim of undiagnosed GD twice before this pregnancy, and one baby was preterm and the other was a demise during labor.

My GD was determined by my A1C blood results (The A1C test gives you a picture of your average blood glucose (blood sugar) control for the past 2 to 3 months) early in my pregnancy.

I think the legend said 5.9 and up and you had GD. I had a 5.7 (high end for pregnancy) so I was confused and upset by it but everything worked out. I just had to rework my diet and I never had to go on meds.

Best of luck to you!

@autumnlove: Oh yeah, the A1C! that will confirm the actual diagnosis...the glucose test if just a benchmark thing. So, you will get mroe to actually diagnose GD.

I resisted the diagnosis at first too. I have PCOS and am pre-diabetic, and I always knew my numbers would be slightly elevated. If you don't really have GD, then it's not a big deal - you test a few times a day, your numbers are fine, no problem. However, if you do have a problem then it's really important to make sure it's controlled, whether through diet or insulin.

I had GD with my pregnancy and was able to go on to have a normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My LO was 7 lb. 10.8 oz. at birth. I resisted the diagnosis at first, but once I started the diet I felt much better. I hadn't realized how crappy I felt until I started controlling my sugar.

Sorry I am just a little confused. Are you saying when they checked before giving you the drink you got different results between the monitor and the actual blood draw? Doesn't the doctor find that weird? Especially with a difference of 16 points?

@skipra: nah, blood glucose monitors can differ greatly from drawn blood results. The monitor results should be taken with a grain of salt.

I was really afraid that my GD diagnosis would be the starting point of a "cascade of interventions" that ended in an induction/c section. I think we measure differently in Canada, but 5.9 is the fasting cut off for the diagnosis and I was a 5.87 that rounded up, and then my two tests after the glucose were in normal range. I was convinced it was a bad day, or my prenatal vitamin that I took did something to my fasting level, or I'd eaten something wrong for dinner... but as the pregnancy progressed it did become more evident and I did end up requiring injectible insulin to control it. And had all the extra ultrasounds and NSTs. My 36 week ultrasound measured a 8lb7oz baby, and there was talk that at his rate she'd be almost 11lbs at 40 weeks, and to think about a scheduled induction early, and they might refuse to allow me to attempt to give birth vaginally if a later ultrasound showed a big baby, which I refused and said I'd potentially reconsider at 40w1d. I ended up naturally giving birth to a 7lb 9oz baby at 38.5 weeks.

@swedishfish: Thanks for clarifying. Sorry about the diagnosis. It stinks to have to deal with it but for your health and the baby's it is lucky that doctors know to test for it. My mom had undiagnosed GD with my sister and as a result, she was too large which led to shoulder dystocia (and a permanent shoulder problem for my sister), and a stay in the NICU due to sugar levels.
Hopefully since it was borderline for you it will just involve eating healthier overall which is never a bad thing! Just curious - do you test your levels with the same monitors that they checked your blood with initially?