What are your target glucose readings in Gestational diabetes or diabetes with pregnancy

Gestational diabetes is extremely common among ladies with pregnancy. All pregnant ladies are screened for gestational diabetes around 24 to 27 weeks of their pregnancies by an oral glucose tolerance test. This is to ensure that their blood glucose readings are in target range. Having glucose readings outside target range can lead to poor outcomes of the pregnancy. The poor outcome can present in form of changes in weight of the developing baby that can lead to birth trauma to still birth in worst case scenario. All these outcomes are totally preventable by monitoring the glucose readings and taking action in a timely way.

Hence, all the guidelines suggest that ladies with gestational diabetes must do seven glucose checks on a daily basis at specific times which would be before and one hour after their meals throughout their pregnancies after receiving the diagnosis.

The idea is to maintain their blood glucose within target range which would be:

Below 95 mg/dL before meal
Below 140 mg/dL at 1 hour after meal

By appropriate monitoring of you, you can make changes in your lifestyle to ensure that the glucose targets are being met.

If for any reason, the blood glucose targets are not being met, then, medications can be started in a timely way to ensure that the baby has healthy development during the pregnancy and is not affected by gestational diabetes.

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