For a mother to remain healthy during pregnancy and have a successful birth a nutritionally balanced diet is important. However for a woman who has gestational diabetes then diet is often the only thing to keep blood sugar levels normal before having to resort to insulin injections. With a gestational diabetes diet a woman [...]

Often considered the third type of the illness, gestational diabetes typically has its onset during pregnancy. While its effects may be reduced or disappear following giving birth, if left untreated during the pregnancy can cause harm to the fetus as well as to the mother. About two to five percent of pregnant women experience [...]

Pregnancy and diabetes are two words that a future mother doesn’t want to hear in the same sentence, but a condition to watch for is gestational diabetes mellitus. This is a condition that only affects pregnant women, and according to statistics, there are approximately 200,000 cases in the US each year.
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