Gestational Diabetes (Pregnancy Diabetes): Every Number You Need to Know

The test you dread might be the most important hour of your pregnancy.

You are 26 weeks pregnant. Your doctor hands you a small bottle of flat orange soda and tells you to drink it in five minutes. An hour later, someone draws your blood. You wait for a phone call. Maybe everything is fine. Maybe it is not.

This is the glucose challenge test, and roughly one in every five women who take it will get a call saying they need m…