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Information for women who have gestational diabetes to help them manage their health during and following pregnancy.

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  • To encourage and promote self-management of diabetes.
  • To optimise diabetes control.
  • Promote general health and wellbeing.

The Target Group will:

  • Know what gestational diabetes is
  • Be able to identify carbohydrates and monitor intake appropriately to manage blood glucose control.
  • Understand how to make choices for a healthy diet through regular meals and snacks
  • Understand how to safely include physical activity into their daily routine
  • Know that they are at an increased risk of developing Type 2 DM and what action to take to minimise this risk following pregnancy
  • Evidence-based nutrition guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes, Diabetes UK, 2018
  • NICE, Diabetes in pregnancy- management from preconception to the postnatal period/ Gestational Diabetes (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng3/chapter/1-Recommendations#gestational-diabetes-2)
  • NICE, Type 2 diabetes in adults: management (NG28), 2015 (updated 2019)
  • A Healthier Future: type 2 Diabetes prevention, early detection and intervention: framework, The Scottish Government, Edinburgh 2018
  • UK Chief Medical Officers' Physical Activity Guidelines, Department of Health, 2019
  • BDA Low Carbohydrate Diets for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Adults (2018)
  • SIGN 116, Management of diabetes, A national clinical guideline 2010 (updated 2017)
NDR-UK Ref No: 9384
Publication Format: A5 leaflet
Classification: HP
Pack size: 10
Publication date: 07/13
Last Review: 2021

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