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Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. [2] Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; [2] however, obesity increases the rate of pre-eclampsia, cesarean sections, and embryo macrosomia, as well as gestational diabetes. [2]
The development of birth defects associated with maternal hyperglycemia is multi-factorial. Environmental factors and genetic predisposition (paternal, maternal and offspring genome) are important in diabetic embryopathy. The diets of diabetic mothers impacts the rate at which malformations form in their offspring.
In some cases, pregnant women with diabetes may be encouraged to express and store their colostrum during pregnancy, in case their blood sugar is too low for feeding the baby breast milk after birth. [18] There is no evidence on the safety or potential benefits when pregnant women with diabetes express and store breast milk prior to the baby's ...
A DNA test led two women to discover that they were switched at birth 50 years ago.. Two women in England have just learned they went home with the wrong families after being born in the same ...
Chinese scientists claimed a breakthrough reversal of a patient’s type 1 diabetes in a world-first procedure where she was injected with stem cells harvested from her own body.. In type 1 ...
When Davina Price, 22, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just after turning 10 years old, her doctors were focused on the “more serious” diabetes complications than on educating her about ...
The midwifery scope of practise covers normal pregnancy and birth. The midwife either consults or transfers care where there is a departure from a normal pregnancy. Antenatal care is normally provided in clinics, and postnatal care is initially provided in the woman's home. Birth can be in the home, a primary birthing unit, or a hospital.
Diabetes is often invisible to everyone but those living with it and, for too long, minorities have gone without better access health care technology. LaBelle: Why I am fighting for greater ...