GDM at 28 weeks pregnanct

Was diagnosed with GDM at 28 weeks , nurse called and went for zoom briefing regards the glucose meter blood take every 2 days in 1 week. Its my 1st day starting to self check at home using the glucose meter and my morning check was okay at 4.8mmol/L But as for 2 hours aft bfast at 10am , 5mins b4 lunch at 1255pm and 2 hours aft lunch at 3pm . All the reading was 7.0mmol/L , 7.1mmol/L and 7.3mmol/L . Is it normal ? I only ate small amount of food that the dietician suggested and drank plenty of plain water only drank soy milk during bfast the rest of my meal i drank plain water . The nurse gave a range of 5.5mmol/L to 6.6mmol/L aft 2 hours of every meal. Before meal the range have to be 4.4mmol/L to 5.5mmol/L But it seems like aft 2 hours it always go up to 7.0+ mmol/L

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Try taking a walk after each meal. Like a short walk would do. I had it during my pregnancy. I actually did some squats before taking the test 😂 Be prepared though. After giving birth, the first gynae check, you would need to do the glucose test again. That blood test, glucose drink, blood test. But this time only do two blood test instead of three. Then the nurse will call you if you still have the GDM. Mine was a funny story. I did mine. No calls. Suddenly two days later the nurse from nuh called. I was like “oh danggit. This means I still have GDM”
turns out, the nurse only asked “hi you did the glucose test two days ago right? Do you remember if you drank the glucose drink after the blood test? Yes? Okay that’s all. Thanks!” That call gave me a scare!! 😂 but I’m fine now. No need to follow up on anything ahhaahaha

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