NIDDK Resource to Help Guide Diabetic Women Through a Healthy Pregnancy
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Brief Description:
Pregnancy in women who have diabetes is automatically considered
high-risk. But a new, easy-to-read booklet has information to
help women with diabetes experience safe and healthy pregnancies.
Transcript:
Akinso: Pregnancy in women who have diabetes
is automatically considered high-risk. But a new, easy-to-read
booklet has information to help women with diabetes experience
safe and healthy pregnancies.
Fradkin: The name of the booklet is For
Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy.
Akinso: Dr. Judith Fradkin is the Director
of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases' Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases.
Fradkin: This booklet is very helpful because
it gives information about changing your diet during your pregnancy,
tips for exercising, gives information about many of the test
that maybe done in a pregnant woman to make sure that her baby
is healthy and it also talks about steps that a woman can take
after pregnancy and particularly the importance of breastfeeding.
Akinso: The booklet is illustrated, has 44-pages
and includes information about all sorts of ways for women to
manage their diabetes while pregnant.
Fradkin: What's particularly important is that
with good control of the diabetes they can have really good pregnancy
outcome.
Akinso: The booklet emphasizes the importance
of planning for pregnancy and getting blood glucose levels under
control before pregnancy to decrease the risk of birth defects
associated with diabetes. Dr. Fradkin wants pregnant diabetic
women to know that they to can have healthy outcomes.
Fradkin: It's a lot of work to take care of
yourself. It's a team approach. But it is absolutely worth it,
because both the health of the mother and the health of the baby
can really be improved by good control.
Akinso: To order a free copy of the booklet
go to www.catalog.niddk.nih.gov or call 1-800-860-8747. This
is Wally Akinso at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
Maryland.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Department of Health
