Help your patient with gestational diabetes care for herself and her baby. Clearly explains issues such as food planning, blood glucose monitoring, ketone testing and more. Call-out boxes highlight key information for the patient and give educators an all-in-one educational piece. Features a chart for tracking weight gain, reproducible record book pages and sample menus with healthy snack ideas. New features include carb grams added throughout, more illustrations, and easy-to-use diabetes record pages. Fourth edition. 2008. 32 pages.
Part of the Diabetes Care series, “Gestational Diabetes: Caring for Yourself and Your Baby” includes comprehensive information on:
• How gestational diabetes happens
• How and when a diagnosis is made
• Treatment options
• Blood glucose self-testing, targets and record keeping
• Ketone testing
• Food planning and weight gain
• Glyburide and insulin
• Labor and delivery
• Self-care after pregnancy
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