Pregnant women and the impact of diabetes in children

women with diabetes during pregnancy is still healthy babies. But if the diabetes can not be controlled well, it is expected that there will be serious consequences can be owned by the child.

Diabetes occurs in pregnant women because of pregnancy hormones in her body makes insulin more difficult to use, so that the pancreas and to work more seriously.

For pregnant women with pancreatitis can work well, then the condition will not be a problem pregnancy. But when the pancreas can not meet the demand for insulin, and can increase blood sugar levels so as to cause diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes).

Most of the diabetes disappears after the birth of the child, although the risks are higher when women are pregnant for over again.

Quoted from the status of the child, on Tuesday (july 10, 2010) there is some impact on the child if he is diabetic pregnant women:

1. And can increase blood sugar and insulin levels cause the child and more fat, especially in the upper body so that it carries little weight.

This condition is called makrosomia and the possibility of having a child is too big to be born through a natural process even more by caesarean section.

Some time after the birth of the child, there is a possibility of the child and low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). This is due to the body produces too much insulin is still in response to the high amount of glucose of the mother.

If doctors know that his mother had gestational diabetes, will be tested newborns for blood sugar levels by taking a drop of blood from the heel of the child. If the levels were low, so I will be breastfeeding the child, but if the child is very severe due to the possibility of solving IV glucose.

2. Infants exposed to greater risk of jaundice (yellow), polycuthemia (increase the number of red blood cells in the blood) and hypocalcemia (low levels of calcium in the blood).

3. Can be affected if control of blood sugar levels are bad, there is the possibility of heart function in infants.

4. While pregnant women at risk twice higher than the pre-eclampsia.

Gestational diabetes generally has no specific symptoms. This is why almost all pregnant women need to make sure the levels of glucose in the 24-28 weeks of pregnancy. If the result is a positive show, there is a need then the percentage of sugar in the blood and to maintain good control of the meal.

Pregnant women are vulnerable if they have diabetes, overweight, have a history of previous gestational diabetes or have a history of diabets strong in the family.