Hi all - hope you don't mind if I join you! I'm 29 weeks at the moment and was diagnosed with GD last week, and have just had my first diabetes appointment today. I was soooo nervous about pr!cking my finger - I faint during blood tests so thought it could get very messy - but it's not as bad as I'd built it up to be (of course). The GD diagnosis meant that my planned homebirth very quickly became a hospital birth which was massively disappointing, but after my appointment today I feel better about the change in plan.

I'm looking forward to sharing in your journeys with GD and possibly getting some great low-GI food ideas from you... I'm absolutely loving low-fat Jalna vanilla yoghurt with fresh strawberries, yummm! I'm a massive sweet-tooth but strangely enough haven't had any problems giving up cakes or biscuits which is a relief.