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Taking Care of Gestational Diabetes |
Empower women to make good choices for a healthy pregnancy, a healthy baby and a healthy lifestyle. This point-and-teach booklet is easy to read and has extensive illustrations for improved comprehension. Covers food planning, checking glucose and ketones, targets, medications and more. New edition has updated graphics, suggested serving sizes for healthy eating, and an illustration showing where to take insulin shots. Third-grade reading level. Also available in Spanish. Fourth edition. 2008. 24 pages.
Topics covered include:
• Gestational diabetes
• High blood sugar
• Stay healthy
• Eat healthy
• Breakfast
• Snacks
• Lunch and dinner
• Sample menu
• Stay active
• Testing your blood sugar
• Blood sugar targets
• Testing urine ketones
• Taking diabetes medicine
• Low blood sugar
• After your baby is born
• Daily schedule
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