I was insulin controlled GD. During labor they took BSL readings every hour. Although I had hardly eaten anything all night, the levels were rising. After two results above 7 they put me on a drip. There were two lines - one insulin and one glucose - to keep a good balance so I didn't go too high or too low. When bubs was born they did a heal ***** in the room and that was fine. He had to go to special care because of a bit of trouble breathing but if there weren't any other problems he would have been able to stay with me. I had to feed him every three hours and his BSL was taken until he had two consecutive results over 3. His sugar was good, so it just ended up being the birth heal ***** then the two after meal ones.

The lady in the bed next to me also had GD, her son had low sugar but he was allowed to stay with her - they did hourly monitoring heal *****s and gave him a top up bottle to raise his sugar.