Gestational diabetes is a condition that occurs in about 3 percent of pregnant women. The condition is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels during pregnancy, and after the baby is born the mom’s blood sugars usually return to normal. This condition is very serious and can lead to conditions such as preeclampsia, postmaturity of the ...
Thirteen hours of foodless torture and six blood samples later, I had established I didn’t have gestational diabetes. What ever that is. Wait, what is that? It suddenly occurred to me I had been submitted to this three hour glucose test, after failing a glucose challenge for a pregnancy condition I knew nothing about. Well, ...
There are not too many people who are familiar with gestational diabetes. Though it is a common problem, there are still a lot of points of this disease that the public are not familiar with. The simple definition of Gestational diabetes is when your blood sugar is too high while you are pregnant. Gestational diabetes ...
If there is one thing I have experience with it is having gestational diabetes. I have had it with three separate pregnancies and I am going to provide you with some helpful information as well as detailing some of my experiences. The first thing I would like to tell expectant mothers is that if you ...