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Diabetes and Pregnancy

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Also called: Also called: Gestational diabetes

Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or sugar, levels are too high. When you are pregnant, too much glucose is not good for your baby. Out of every 100 pregnant women in the United States, between three and eight get gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes is diabetes that happens for the first time when a woman is pregnant. Gestational diabetes goes away when you have your baby, but it does increase your risk for having diabetes later.

If you have already have diabetes before you get pregnant, you need to monitor and control your blood sugar levels.

Either type of diabetes during pregnancy raises the risk of problems for the baby and the mother. To help reduce these risks, you should follow your meal plan, exercise, test your blood sugar and take your medicine.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Start Here

For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/pregnancy/
Gestational Diabetes(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/Gestational_Diabetes.cfm
What I Need to Know about Gestational Diabetes(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/gestational/
Also available in Spanish http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/spanish/pubs/gestational_ez/

Overviews

Diabetes and Pregnancy(American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) - http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp051.cfm
Diabetes and Pregnancy Frequently Asked Questions(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/bd/diabetespregnancyfaqs.htm
Gestational Diabetes(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/gestational-diabetes/DS00316/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print

Latest News

Diabetes Linked to Depression During and after Pregnancy(02/24/2009, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_80999.html

Diagnosis/Symptoms

Am I at Risk for Gestational Diabetes?(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - Links to PDF - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/upload/gest_diabetes_risk_2005.pdf
Diagnosis of Diabetes(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/diagnosis/

Prevention/Screening

It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes(National Diabetes Education Program) - Links to PDF - http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/NeverTooEarly_Tipsheet.pdf

Nutrition

MedlinePlus: Diabetic Diet(National Library of Medicine) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabeticdiet.html
Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/diabeticdiet.html

Disease Management

Managing Gestational Diabetes: A Patient's Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/gest_diabetes/managing_gest_diabetes_pdf.cfm
Pregnancy and Diabetes: From Conception to Birth(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/pregnancy-and-diabetes/DA00042/METHOD=print
Take Charge of Your Diabetes: Pregnancy, Diabetes, and Women's Health(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/tcyd/pregnant.htm
When You're Sick(American Diabetes Association) - http://www.diabetes.org/gestational-diabetes/sick.jsp

Related Issues

How Can I Tell If I Am Likely to Develop Diabetes in the Future?(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/gest_diabetes/sub12.cfm
Preexisting Diabetes(March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation) - http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/188_1064.asp
Type 1 Diabetes and Pregnancy: Preparing for Pregnancy(Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International) - http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=EFEF9969-1279-D3DC-F96062D5E5283E48
What Should I Do After My Baby Is Born?(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/gest_diabetes/sub11.cfm

Clinical Trials

ClinicalTrials.gov: Diabetes, Gestational(National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Diabetes,+Gestational%22

Research

Disorders of Pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Preeclampsia, and Eclampsia)(National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/womenshealth/research/pregbirth/disorders.cfm
Pregnancy(American Diabetes Association) - Current medical research reports - http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-research/summaries/pregnancy.jsp
Screening for Gestational Diabetes during Pregnancy(American College of Physicians) - Links to PDF - http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/148/10/I-60.pdf
Untreated Diabetes During Pregnancy May Raise Kids' Risk for Obesity Later(Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/research/pregnancy_diabetes.html

Journal Articles

References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

Article: Risk factors for type 2 diabetes among women with gestational... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19272478&tool=MedlinePlus
Article: Overestimation of fetal weight by ultrasound: does it influence the... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19254597&tool=MedlinePlus
Article: Association between diabetes and perinatal depression among low-income mothers. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=19244191&tool=MedlinePlus
Diabetes and Pregnancy -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=diabetes,gestational[majr]+AND+english[la]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+(review[pt]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt]+OR+jsubsetaim[text]+OR+jsubsetn[text]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt]+OR+systematic[sb])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus
Pregnancy in diabetics -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=(pregnancy+in+diabetics[majr]+NOT+diabetes,gestational[majr])+AND+english[la]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+(jsubsetaim[text]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+jsubsetn[text]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt]+OR+systematic[sb])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+3+Years&tool=MedlinePlus

Dictionaries/Glossaries

Diabetes Dictionary(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/dictionary/
Also available in Spanish http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/spanish/pubs/dictionary/index.htm
Take Charge of Your Diabetes: Glossary(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/tcyd/appendix.htm

Directories

Directory of Diabetes Organizations(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/resources/organizations.htm

Organizations

American Diabetes Association - http://www.diabetes.org/
National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - http://www.niddk.nih.gov/

Statistics

National Diabetes Statistics, 2007(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/statistics/

You may also be interested in these MedlinePlus related pages:

Diabetes - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabetes.html
High Risk Pregnancy - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/highriskpregnancy.html
Endocrine System - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endocrinesystem.html
Female Reproductive System - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/femalereproductivesystem.html
Pregnancy and Reproduction - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pregnancyandreproduction.html

The primary NIH organization for research on Diabetes and Pregnancy is the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - http://www.nichd.nih.gov/

Diabetes and Pregnancy - Multiple Languages - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/diabetesandpregnancy.html

Date last updated: April 29 2009

Topic last reviewed: October 06 2008