I had gestational with all my kids. First their is no special diet. Do not eat more carbs as that will give abnormal reading. they want to to eat as u normally do. I would suggest laying off juice and sugared pop. they give abnormally high reading.
My suggestion is to take the test first thing in the am and bring a snack and water bottle wiht you. the water will help curb the hunger. DO NOT bring kids with you. Bring a book and a backup thing to do. You will not be able to leave or even walk around.

I had varing degrees of gestational diabetes. with first one I just hade to watch what I ate.
allgirls

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allgirls, mom to 3 girls

I started the special diet yesterday, it's basically a lot of breads and deserts and starches. There's no way I can eat everything they want me to though. There's just too much of it. Tomorrow's the last day, with nothing to eat or drink but water after 10pm, then I go in on Wednesday, and happily was abe to get an 8:30 am apointment. Hopfully everything goes well, my instruction sheet makes it sound like the world is going to end if I don't eat everything on the list so they can see if y body processes it all, but I confess... I've been skipping the two tbs of sugar with my huge breakfast. I'll be so glad when this is over and I get my cute cuddly baby. My poor body is always aching from either pains or needle pokes.

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