Gestational diabetes: Impact of home glucose monitoring on neonatal birth weight

Abstract Two groups of 58 gestational diabetic women matched for age, prepregnancy weight, height, and parity were studied. The home glucose monitoring study group performed fasting and 1-hour postprandial capillary blood glucose testing after every meal. The control group was followed by conventional treatment. The incidence of macrosomia (birth weight of ≥4000 gm) and large (≥90%) for gestational age infants was significantly reduced in the home glucose monitoring group. The mean birth weight of the study group was 3231 ± 561 gm, while that of the control group was 3597 ± 721 gm (p