Pregnancy and Diabetes

By Mike Herman

There are two types of diabetes that need to be considered by women who are, or are planning to become, pregnant:

1. Diabetes that pre-exists a pregnancy.

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2. Diabetes that developes during her pregnancy, which is commonly referred to as "gestational diabetes".

Diabetics - those with pre-existing diabetes or those who develop gestational diabetes - often deliver larger babies. This is a result of the additional sugar, being produced by the mother, being passed through the umbilical cord into the blood stream of the baby where insulin then converts it into fat.

How to Stop Prediabetes and High Blood Sugar Levels Destroying Your Health?

By >> Beverleigh H Piepers

Prediabetes, well you would think you either have type 2 diabetes or you don't!  In one way it's true, you don't yet have type 2 but it's certainly trying to catch you.  Already changes are going on inside your body and they have been for a time now, probably a couple of years.  These changes have affected how your body uses both insulin and sugar.

Blood sugar levels vary through the day, your levels are lower before eating and naturally higher following a meal.  Your recent test for fasting blood sugars showing you were prediabetic, would have been between 100 to 125 mg/dl (5.5 to 6.9 mmol/l).  Levels higher than 126 mg/dl (7 mmol/l) indicate full blown type 2 diabetes.  The impaired or prediabetic range for the glucose tolerance test is between 140 to 199 mg/dl (7.8 to 11 mmol/l).