Diabetes and Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a matter of anxiety and a new experience for both the partners in their life expecting the child and going to be parents. But this happiness can be hindered in case of woman suffering from diabetes and is pregnant or want to be pregnant. It can pose some severe problems during pregnancy like premature labor, urinary tract infection, variations in blood pressures and some times not letting for caesarean sectioning due to the high sugar levels. But there is nothing to worry for long, medical science has brought solution and the methods to monitor the situation and condition of the mother as well the baby.

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes is the diabetes in which the stress of pregnancy may increase the blood glucose level and is called the gestational diabetes mellitus. Causes can be due to low response of the tissues to the insulin or insulin deficiency causing increasing of glucose level in blood. For such cases clear monitoring before and after pregnancy is must for the post results not to go disastrous. For avoiding uneventful incident have everything planned keeping exercise, meals and insulin in balance. Keep a track of blood glucose all through. Having maintained good glucose level in the complete term of pregnancy with good medical care, you are no less than a normal mother with healthy baby and trouble free pregnancy.

Body requirements in pregnant women keep changing each month and weeks in particular and the mother needs to comply with it. Especially in the second and third trimesters of the pregnancy 2 to 3 times more than the normal quantities of insulin required. In case of diabetic mother as she already lacks insulin at this stage needs to specially concentrate, if neglected leads to gestational diabetes. There are many yogas that can be practiced which are said to give positive results. Yoga taking a new modern look is being practiced all over including western countries for preventing and controlling complications.

Mother's Risk and the Foetus

Diabetes affects the vision and in case of pregnancy this risk is in many folds rapid and high. Swelling may be seen in body or protein appearance increases and leading to risk factors. Major problems are the chances of abortion, premature labor, low body resistance and high infections before and after delivery that can be threat. Risk factors in case of foetus are the baby can be unusually large weighing 500gms. Baby can also be small due to less blood flow into the uterus leading to condition called arteriosclerosis. Death of foetus in the womb or after birth the defects can vary in varieties like brain disorders. If monitored well during pregnancy and strictly controlled 97 percent of the foetus can be normal and will survive.

Children of diabetic mothers will have fatal lung diseases and may suffer from higher calcium or hemoglobin level in blood and muscle weakness can be developed. Prematurely born babies are more tend to die soon because of infection or other related problems. Those babies may suffer from low glucose level in blood having hypoglycemia.