A new study in the October 1 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reports that controlling gestational diabetes, a condition that affects a growing number of women in the US each year, may be easier and more important than first thought. Moms-to-be who develop gestational diabetes tend to have larger babies and more complicated deliveries. Their newborns are also at risk for long-term complications such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, says Mark Landon, MD, of Ohio State University Medical Center, who led the study.
www.twinpossible.com Here I discuss Gestational Diabetes, the fears, the facts, and how to deal with controling your blood sugars, and having a safe, happy, and healthy pregnancy, even when batteling, that pesky GD!
This is a nursing school teaching project about gestational diabetes from five 6th quarter students graduating from Everett Community College in Everett, Washington, on June 8th, 2010. We hope you find this information helpful.
Monique Hedderson, PhD, talks about the results of a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study showing that women who gained more weight during pregnancy than is recommend by the Institute of Medicine had a 50 percent increased risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus, or GDM. Hedderson, who just had a baby herself, details some of the findings from the study, which was published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. Read more in the Kaiser Permanente News Center: www.kp.org/newscenter
Prevent getting gestational diabetes during pregnancy by developing healthy lifestyle habits before becoming pregnant. Learn how certain ethnicities and women over the age of 25 who have had a baby that weighed more than 9 pounds are more likely to develop gestational diabetes with information from a family nurse practitioner in this free video on diabetes.
During pregnancy, women can develop a form of diabetes known as gestational diabetes. In most cases, these women have never been diagnosed with this condition before their pregnancies.
