Home glucose test with real food

Gretchen

Anybody else doing the glucose test using real food at home with a finger-stick glucose monitor? I am doing a home birth and my midwife said I can do this instead of the nasty lab test with the sugar load, but now my scores are bad and I’m wondering if anyone else is doing it and what the scores are supposed to be? You have a fasting score first thing in the morning, then eat a big sugary breakfast like French toast, then test again one hour and two hours after breakfast. Anyone have experience with this? Know what those three scores should be?