With the advent of the second child era, the number of advanced maternal age has increased a lot, and some of these pregnant mothers suffer from gestational diabetes due to excessive intake of sugar as a result of their obsessive supplementation. If the pregnancy diet is not controlled, gestational diabetes can endanger the mother-to-be and the baby in her arms. What can pregnant women do to take care of it? Gestational Diabetes Recipes Pregnant women with gestational diabetes should eat foods that are low on the glycemic index, high in dietary fiber, and easy to digest. Pregnant mothers are advised to eat more vegetables, such as cucumber, tomatoes, bok choy, celery, etc. Fruits, such as grapefruit, kiwi, strawberries and green apples. Choose high-quality protein, such as lean meat, milk, fish, etc. Staple food is best to choose coarse grains such as corn flour, buckwheat noodles, oat flour made of steamed buns. No matter what you eat, you need to pay attention to the right amount, pregnant diabetics should eat less and more meals, 5-6 meals a day is appropriate. Eat less or avoid eating things the following foods. Refined sugars: white granulated sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, etc. Sweet food: chocolate, sweet cookies, sweet bread, jam, honey, etc. High starch foods: potatoes, yams, etc. Oil and fats: peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, pine nuts, etc. Avoid animal fatty oils (cream, lard, butter, etc.) Starchy foods that are boiled for too long or too fine, such as rice porridge, glutinous rice porridge, lotus root powder, etc. What should I do if I have gestational diabetes? Gestational diabetes can be very harmful to the pregnant woman and the fetus if it is serious. However, many people with gestational diabetes generally return to normal metabolic function after delivery. So, what about gestational diabetes? 1, diet therapy is a basic treatment of diabetes, regardless of the type of diabetes and the severity of the disease or the presence of complications, whether or not the treatment with insulin should be strictly implemented and long-term adherence to dietary control. Eat more coarse grains and dietary fiber, and supplement protein. However, it should be noted that excessive control of diet should be avoided, otherwise it will lead to starvation ketosis and fetal growth restriction in pregnant women. 2.Medication Some pregnant women cannot control diabetes even after adjusting their diet. When diet control fails, it is better to apply insulin to control blood sugar level after early pregnancy and the dosage of insulin increases progressively. The insulin dosage reaches its peak from 32 to 36 weeks of gestation and decreases slightly after 36 weeks of gestation, especially at night. 3. Maternal and child monitoring during pregnancy If you have gestational diabetes, you should strictly control your diet and check your body regularly under the supervision of your doctor, regardless of whether your condition is serious or not, and closely monitor the changes in blood sugar and adjust the insulin dosage in time in order to avoid the deterioration of the disease and its serious consequences. Early pregnancy is checked once a week until the 10th week of pregnancy. In the middle of pregnancy, you should check every two weeks, and in addition to adjusting the insulin dosage, you should also have a fundus examination at the same time. After 32 weeks of gestation, weekly checkups should be performed. In addition to paying attention to the condition of the pregnant woman, close attention should be paid to the development of the fetus and the function of the placenta, etc. If necessary, hospitalization should be performed. (1) Timing of delivery First of all, we should determine the appropriate timing of delivery. For pregnant women with gestational diabetes, in principle, the termination of pregnancy should be postponed as much as possible through methods. If the blood glucose is well controlled, there are no comorbidities in late pregnancy and the fetus is in good intrauterine condition, you should wait until 38-39 weeks of gestation to terminate the pregnancy. If the blood sugar control is unsatisfactory and there are other complications, after early amniotic fluid extraction to understand the maturity of fetal lung and promote fetal lung maturity, the pregnancy should be terminated immediately after fetal lung maturity. (2) Mode of delivery Combined gestational diabetes is not an indication for cesarean delivery per se. Those with giant fetus, placental dysfunction, abnormal fetal position or other obstetric indications should undergo cesarean delivery. Pregnant women with a history of diabetes mellitus greater than 10 years, accompanied by a history of adverse pregnancy, should have a relaxed indication for cesarean delivery. (3) Management during delivery Generally, we should pay attention to rest, give appropriate diet, and pay close attention to the changes of blood sugar, urine sugar and ketone body, adjust insulin dosage in time, and strengthen fetal monitoring. For pregnant women who deliver vaginally, blood glucose level should be strictly controlled at the time of delivery, and diabetic diet should be adopted after delivery. The labor should be within 12 hours. Pregnant women who deliver by cesarean section should stop applying pre-dinner zinc concentrate insulin the day before surgery, and stop subcutaneous insulin injection on the day of surgery. Blood glucose should be measured every 2 to 4 hours after surgery until the diet resumes. How to avoid gestational diabetes? Having diabetes during pregnancy is very troublesome, so what can the mother-to-be do to avoid gestational diabetes? 1. Eat a proper diet and control your weight; 2. Have an adequate supply of protein; 3. Have an adequate supply of fat; 4. Take vitamins and minerals; 5. Limit salt intake appropriately. Summary: After reading the above, I think you have a detailed understanding of gestational diabetes, gestational diabetes must be a light diet, not to eat sugar-rich foods, in addition to more vitamins, if necessary, you can go to the hospital under the guidance of a doctor.