"when caring for the neonate of a mother with gestational diabetes, which finding is most indicative of a hypoglycemic episode? "

Jitteriness

Explanation:

Jitteriness is an involuntary movement found in the newborn baby. It occurs in early infancy, beyond the neonatal period. Jittery is a term which is used to describe term tremors in infants. Tremors may fine or coarse. Fine tremor has high frequency and low amplitude on the hand coarse tremor have low frequency and high amplitude. If  repetitive and recurrent occurs such episodes in newborn infants lead to etiology such as hypoglycemia, hypoglycemia, hypothyroidism, hypomegnisiam, etc. Jittering mainly occurs due to deficiency of vitamin c.