Diabetes and Pregnancy

The women with diabetes can have a normally pregnancy and can give birth to healthy children with the condition that she should take some precautions measures. It is recommended the pregnancy planning. The period of 7-8 weeks after conceiving is very important because in that period are formed various baby’s organs.

It is important that in the previous conceiving period and in the pregnancy period to be a regular sugar level control. Because the mother and the fetus “share” the same blood, the sugar level will be the same for both of them. While the adults can tolerate the longer periods with the increased sugar level, the fetus growth can suffer in these circumstances.

So, if the mother's diabetes lack of balance is high the risk for the fetus will increase. The necessary of insulin in the pregnancy period can advance (recovering after pregnancy to the previously values); the intense treatment and the self-control is vital.

The pregnancy requires a calcium supplement, vitamins and iron. The women with diabetes can suckle if they take measures against the hypoglycemia: even through the diminution of administrated insulin quantity, even through the consumption of many nutriments (especially the sweets).

I have 28 weeks of pregnancy. The doctor has already told you have gestational diabetes. Should you be concerned? A short answer is yes. A beneficial attendance means from now on a lot for you and for your baby.

What is the gestational diabetes?

The pregnant women who have never had diabetes before the pregnancy, but who had an advanced level of sugar in blood during the pregnancy period are diagnosed as suffering from gestational diabetes.

The gestational diabetes affects about 4% from the total of pregnant women.

The gestational diabetes causes aren't completely elucidated, but the doctors formulated some hypothesis.

The placenta which is the turn-table plate between the mother and the fetus, it produces the pregnancy hormones so necessary for the baby’s growth.

But, these hormones have an antagonistic effect over the insulin from the mother's body, which is called in the special term –the resistance to insulin.

The resistance to insulin makes the mother’s body inapt to use correctly the insulin secreted by pancreas which determines the sugar level increase in blood.

In such cases the pregnant woman needs almost three quantities more as compared to the normal sugar level.

The gestational diabetes starts when the body is not able to produce and to utilize the necessary insulin for the pregnancy.

Without enough insulin the glucose can not leave the blood and it can be transformed through energy burning at the cells level, case in which is accumulated blood determining the hyperglycemia.

The sugar diabetes associated to the pregnancy

Definition

According to the OMS recommendations are distinguished the following forms of sugar diabetes associated to the pregnancy:

• The dependent-insulin sugar diabetes discovered at the women till the pregnancy
• The non-insulin sugar diabetes discovered till the pregnancy
• The gestational sugar diabetes
• The gestational diabetes is the sugar diabetes which appears for the first time during the pregnancy.
• The affected systems: Being a metabolic disease, the diabetes induces the agitations of the cardiovascular, renal-genital system, the central and autonomic nervous system.
• The prevalence of age: it frequently appears at the young women between 25-35 years.