Infants at Risk of Diabetes During Pregnancy

Diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) is a form of diabetes experienced by pregnant women. Approximately as much as 3 percent of pregnant women found to be suffering from the disease despite having no previous history of diabetes.

Diabetes during pregnancy is typically obtained at gestational age 12 to 28 weeks and will heal after the baby is born. Although sweets are not the main cause of this type of diabetes, expectant mothers must be thinking of doing a healthy diet and activity during the contain to reduce the risk of this disease.

In general, symptoms of the disease is generally mild and non-threatening, but there is most likely you will experience lethargy, easy thirst, frequent urination, and weight loss despite increased appetite. To be sure, do blood sugar checks.
The following are some of the impact of diabetes during pregnancy on babies born:
1. Large baby (Macrosomia) 

baby in the womb produces more insulin which will provide excess sugar to fat so that the resulting babies are larger than usual size. This situation is likely to complicate the process of delivery such as birth becomes longer, the risk of injury at birth, and most likely have birth mothers by caesarean section.
2. Neonatal hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) 

Babies will continue to produce insulin in large quantities for a certain period of time after birth. But because there is no longer a source of sugar from the mother, resulting newborn will experience hypoglycemia. Conditions like this will make your baby may experience chills or respiratory problems, but this situation can be restored immediately when the infants were given breast milk or water added sugar.
3. Other complications
Babies may develop jaundice (jaundis) at birth. In fact, mothers who most likely will find it contains delivery early. Although babies are born do not have diabetes, but the risk of babies to be obese or diabetic menghidap future is quite high.