MAIN STUDY: Low Glycaemic Index (GI) Diet in the Management of GDM SUB-STUDY: The Breast Milk Sub-Study

Standard dietary advice for women with GDM with special emphasis on use of high fiber or whole grain carbohydrate foods with a medium to high GI. What's on Your Plate? and 3-dimensional food models will be used to teach servings size and meal planning. This groups will be provided with food substitution lists (key-foods method) composed of medium to high GI foods.

"Nutrition education according to standard care similar to the control group with supplementary GI-education. GI-education will be taught using the Stop-Light-Method. This groups will be provided with food substitution lists (key-foods method) composed of low-GI carbohydrate-containing food. The GI-education tool(s) will build on standard care education where patients are taught which food groups contain carbohydrate."