Help controlling Gestational Diabetes?

I have gestational diabetes and want to make insulin my LAST resort. Are there any types of supplements I can take that can naturally lower my blood sugar? My fasting blood sugars are usually high even though I have my "snack" before bed. I'm not suposed to have milk or fruit for breakfast at all. Should I just eat a very low carb diet with no sugar? Is there anything natural I can try and take? I am exercising, too...

basically, yes, you should be careful about your diet
i cant type the whole thing in here, but there's this channel for expert advice on the topic

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Try cutting way back on beef and pork, this cut my husbands c1a from 10 to 7. We use Splenda only and very little carbohydrates.

i would not eat many saturated fats and focus on lean meats and limit your carbs. look at food labels to see carb exchanging to gauge how much grams of carbs you are getting a day. i would also look up a dietician or google for gestational diabetes meal plans. b/c you do need to watch your carbs---rather than eating simple ones (refined sugars, or high fructose corn syrup) choose complex ones (ie brown rice, or fortified breakfast cereals). you can have simple carbs but just limit them if at all possible. splenda is a good sugar substitute too. and eat more veggies not too much fruits! keep a food diary!

Although watching what you eat may aid you in controlling your diabetes ... or, at least, lowering your blood sugar levels, you may well find that it's a foregone conclusion that your doctor will start you on injections.

Raised blood sugar levels are dangerous to both yourself and your unborn child.

I'm not sure how much information your doctor has already given you, but the chances are that because you have gestational diabetes now, you are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life ... this could be next week, next month, next year, or many years away.

Some type 2 diabetics have reported that cinnamon aids in lowering their blood sugar levels, though scientifically this is, as yet, unproven.

If you do decide to try cinnamon, please do inform your doctor as it may well not be good to take this along with insulin.

I wish both yourself and your baby the very best of luck.

Be well.

I am eight weeks pregnant, and I have had type one diabetes since age five-i am now 25.

If you don't have to take insulin and you think you can manage without-that is great, I have to take insulin because I am diabetic all the time. Advice I have for you is even though you may be watching sugars in foods based on the label, sugar, sometimes isn't labeled sugar. Watch for carbs as well, and also watch for those natural sugars in foods you would never expect.

Things like, bread-especially white bread, pasta, cheese, milk, crackers. fruits-even fruits that taste dull, veggies-even veggies that taste dull, chicken, hamburger meats, pork, etc...all have sugars and carbs in them that you may not even know about. To control your sugars through diet, you will have to really understand all the places sugar comes from in your meals-like I said sugars may not be labeled sugars. It can be tricky. I suggest eating serving sizes only, eating small meals throughout the day-so your body can use up any sugars/carbs right away as energy, and excersize-they suggest 30 min. a day for pregnant women, but with diabetes you might want to do two 30 min. work-outs a day.

Good luck and if I can be of any more help please email me.