In recent years, the morbidity of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) maintained an upward trend. GDM can’t merely lead to negative pregnancy consequences, but also endanger life of the mother and child in severe cases, and may also bring long-term complications and sequelae to the mother and child. Studies using subjective or objective methods to evaluate the correlation between sleep and GDM are inconsistent, but still suggest that poor sleep status may be related to GDM. In order to further understand the current research status of the relationship between sleep measured by different tools and gestational diabetes mellitus, this paper will review the articles from Web of Science, Wanfang, PubMed, VIP, CNKI and other databases.