Diabetes in pregnancy

Information for your patients

Gestational diabetes

The National Diabetes Support Scheme (NDSS) has fact sheets, booklets, checklists and videos about gestational diabetes and how to manage it, including:

• understanding gestational diabetes
• caring for yourself and your baby
• life after gestational diabetes.

Learn more about gestational diabetes on the NDSS website and the Gestational Diabetes and Me website.

The Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute have fact sheets that include healthy eating tips and managing gestational diabetes.

You can also read about Choosing Medications for Gestational Diabetes Management (PDF 363 kB).

Pregnancy planning for women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes

The National Diabetes Support Scheme (NDSS) website has information to support a healthy pregnancy and baby, including:

• a pregnancy planning checklist
• guides to planning and managing pregnancy for women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in rural and remote communities

Information for Indigenous Health Workers, nurses and other health professionals to use with pregnant women in rural and remote Indigenous communities.

• How your body works (PDF 2097 kB)
• Gestational Diabetes – What is it? Why & How Do We Treat It? (PDF 1744 kB)
• Eating for Gestational Diabetes (PDF 2276 kB)
• About the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) (PDF 1111 kB)
• After Baby is Born (PDF 1790 kB)

Videos for Aboriginal women and Torres Strait Islander women

Menzies School of Health Research has developed videos for Aboriginal women and Torres Strait Islander women with gestational or type 2 diabetes.

Topics include:

• diabetes in pregnancy and after baby is born
• checking blood sugar levels
• metformin and insulin
• preparing for baby’s arrival.