Diabetes in Pregnancy aka Gestational Diabetes is diagnosed during pregnancy. Like other forms of diabetes it affects how cells use blood sugar. Diabetes in pregnancy can adversely affect your pregnancy and your baby.
Is Diabetes in Pregnancy serious and causes problems?
What are symptoms of Diabetes in Pregnancy?
For Diabetes in Pregnancy, What tests are done?
How is diabetes in Pregnancy treated in Hyderabad?
Overweight
Age more than 30
Pre Diabetic
Diabetes In previous Pregnancy
Family History
PCOS
Previous Baby > 4Kg
Birth Defects in previous children
Miscarriage
High BP, Cholestrol
Glucose load is given and levels tested
An extension of Previous test
Done to evaluate baby before birth
Tests are done around 24 – 28 Weeks and could be earlier if you have risk factors. Ideal Sugar levels: Before meal 94 mg/dl; 1 hour after meal 140mg/dl; 2 hours after meal 120mg/dl.
In some instances patients experience excessive thirst or frequent urination. Routine antenatal care in Parijatham Clinics involves testing for diabetes and all patients are screened through consultation during the intial phase of pregnancy.
If your blood sugar level is higher than the standard range, it can cause your baby to grow too large. Very large babies — those who weigh 9 pounds or more — are more likely to become wedged in the birth canal, have birth injuries or need a C-section birth.
High blood sugar may increase the risk of early labor and delivery before the due date. Or early delivery may be recommended because the baby is large.
Babies born early may experience respiratory distress syndrome — a condition that makes breathing difficult.
Sometimes babies have low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) shortly after birth. Severe episodes of hypoglycemia may cause seizures in the baby. Prompt feedings and sometimes an intravenous glucose solution can return the baby’s blood sugar level to normal.
Babies have a higher risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life.
Untreated gestational diabetes can result in a baby’s death either before or shortly after birth
Gestational diabetes raises your risk of high blood pressure, as well as preeclampsia — a serious complication of pregnancy that causes high blood pressure and other symptoms that can threaten both your life and your baby’s life.
You’re more likely to have a C-section if you have gestational diabetes.
If you have gestational diabetes, you’re more likely to get it again during a future pregnancy. You also have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes as you get older.