GlucoMum — The Gestational Diabetes Operating System
Every reading, every meal, every appointment — in one place that connects them, adds them up, and hands you back something you can actually read.
Runs on a free Notion account. No technical knowledge needed — a plain-language walkthrough is included.
Four readings a day. Every meal. Every appointment. GlucoMum holds all of it in one calm place — and quietly turns it into something you can actually read.
You log the small things. It connects them, adds them up, and hands you back your days and weeks. Nothing to calculate. Nothing to redo.
Everything is measured against the targets you enter from your own care team. Change one of those numbers and every reading you have ever logged re-evaluates itself.
One calm place for all of it.
A notebook records. A system connects.
The difference isn't how much you can write down. It's whether anything happens after you do.
One place for your targets
Enter the numbers your care team gave you, once. Every reading measures itself against them — and if a target changes later, every reading you have ever logged updates instantly.
Food becomes evidence
Link a meal to the reading that followed it. Two seconds. After a couple of weeks you know which of your own meals hold steady — from your body, not a generic list.
Weeks build themselves
Sunday takes four minutes. Every figure is already calculated — you only write what you noticed and pick one focus for the week ahead.
Appointments stop being stressful
A clean printable log with your targets beside each reading, plus your open questions — ready the night before.
Fasting and post-meal are two different problems.
Most tracking blends them into one average — and hides the exact thing your clinician needs to see.
GlucoMum splits them. Walking in able to say “my post-meal numbers are good — it's my fasting that won't move” gets you a clinical conversation. A folded paper log gets you a nod.
Measured against the targets you entered from your care team.
Built around one uncomfortable fact.
Gestational diabetes is usually diagnosed between 24 and 28 weeks. From that day, a woman is asked to test her blood four times daily, time her meals against a clock, and think carefully about food six times a day — while pregnant, probably not sleeping, and worried about her baby.
She is handed a meter, a target sheet, and a folded paper log.
Published research on the experience of this diagnosis reports guilt, self-blame and shame as near-universal. One widely cited study title puts it bluntly: women describe the regimen as feeling like medically promoted disordered eating.
That finding shaped this product more than any feature request could have. It is why above-target readings show in amber and never red. It is why the score measures whether you logged and walked, not what your blood sugar did. It is why nothing in here nags you.
The test we hold it to isn't whether it looks impressive on the day it's bought. It's whether she's still opening it in week 36.
— The GlucoMum team
Twelve connected areas.
You'll use three of them daily and visit the rest when you need them.
Today
Your working surface. Log and review in under two minutes.
Quick Log
Every kind of entry, one page, one tap each.
Glucose
Timeline, patterns by slot, printable provider export.
Nutrition
Meal log, safe-meal library, spike watchlist.
Lifestyle
Movement, water, sleep, weight, mood, private journal.
Insights
Weekly reports that build themselves.
Care
Appointments, questions, results, medications, care team.
Reports
A structured summary to print or share.
Pregnancy
Week by week to 40, with what's changing and why.
Habits
Consistency and streaks — measured on effort, never glucose.
Resources
Plain answers, glossary, question banks, scripts.
Postpartum
The follow-up test, the record, what to tell a future doctor.
Two things you do. Five things it does.
Enter your numbers, once
Your due date and the targets your care team gave you. About twelve minutes, and you never set anything up again.
Log a reading in seconds
Open the tab for the slot you're in, type the number, close it.
Tie the meal to the reading
Two seconds. It's where everything personal comes from.
Glance at your day
About a minute in the evening. On a hard day, log your readings and stop — that still counts.
Four minutes on Sunday
Your week is already assembled. You write what you noticed.
Print before an appointment
Set the range, print to PDF. Two minutes and you're the best-prepared patient in the clinic.
You shouldn't be the only one who understands this.
A page written for your partner — what gestational diabetes is, what actually helps, and what to stop saying.Try it for two weeks.
If GlucoMum isn't right for you, email us within fourteen days and we'll refund you in full. No form to fill in, no explanation required, no follow-up questions.
Reasonable questions.
No. GlucoMum runs on Notion the way a website runs on a browser — you use the product, not the platform. A five-minute plain-language walkthrough is included, written without technical vocabulary. If you can use a notes app, you can use this.
Yes. GlucoMum runs entirely on Notion's free personal plan. Creating an account takes about a minute. There is nothing else to pay.
Yes, and it's designed for it. iPhone, Android, iPad and any computer, syncing automatically. Most logging happens one-handed before anyone else is awake, so the daily screens are built for exactly that.
About twelve minutes, once. A guided seven-step page walks you through your due date, your targets and your care team. After that there is no further setup.
No. GlucoMum is an organisation and tracking tool. It doesn't diagnose, treat or recommend anything, and it never sets a target — you enter the numbers your own care team gave you, and the system compares your logs to those. Always follow your provider's guidance.
Setup is twelve minutes and it starts working from your first entry. Even a few weeks of clean, organised readings changes what you can bring to your remaining appointments — and the postpartum section matters regardless of when you start.
You get an access link immediately. One click copies the whole system into your own private Notion account. A welcome page then walks you through your first ten minutes, ending with your first logged reading.
Email within fourteen days and we'll refund you in full. No form, no explanation required.
Clear about what this is.
What GlucoMum does
- Organises information you enter yourself
- Summarises your own logs by day, week and slot
- Compares readings to targets you entered
- Helps you arrive at appointments organised
What it doesn't do
- Diagnose, treat or monitor any condition
- Recommend targets, meals or medication
- Replace any part of your medical care
- Claim to change any pregnancy outcome
Reference ranges mentioned anywhere in GlucoMum appear only as published context, with their source named. They are never applied to your data. Your own numbers, from your own care team, are the only thing the system calculates against.
One payment. No subscription. Yours to keep — including after birth.
Instant access · Free Notion account required · 14-day refund