I had it with both pregnancies.
Basically they'll probably start you off controlling it with dietary changes. It's a very healthy diet and the one bonus is that it will keep your weight gain under control. I only gained 13kg with DD and 10 kg with DS so that's a bonus
You'll need to do a finger ***** test four times a day to check your blood sugar levels and record all the readings. If you are consistently under the targets they give you (usually 5.5 fasting and 7.0 2hrs after eating) then that is pretty much it - you'll just roll through the pregnancy on the diet and then they'll probably push you for an induction at about 38/39 weeks.
If you can't control it with the diet (and it isn't your fault if you can't) you'll have insulin injections to keep your levels down. These really aren't a big deal either but if you do end up on insulin it tends to have more implications for your labour and birth in terms of possible interference - you'll be under pretty strong pressure to induce, if your water breaks they'll want to induce immediately, they'll want you on monitors for the whole labour etc etc.
I was on insulin for the last few weeks of DD's pregnancy, but I managed to control it really well with diet alone for my son's and avoided insulin altogether.
It's interesting that they missed it with your first pregnancy - with my second pregnancy I passed the test twice at 20 and 28 weeks....but I started feeling really thirsty alot at 32 weeks so I started checking my BSL's at home and noticed they were consistently high. The test they use for GD is a bit of a croc IMO.
Just wanted to reassure you that getting GD has nothing to do with weight gain - I am average weight and have no risk factors for it whatsoever yet have had it twice. In your case your highest risk factor would be your mum being diabetic so don't beat up on yourselfi thought i was doing so well with this pregnancy having only put on 4kilos so far
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