Diabetes that occurs in pregnant women due to pregnancy hormones in your body makes insulin more difficult to use, so that the pancreas has to work harder.
For pregnant women who pancreas can work well, then the condition would not be a problem pregnancy. But when the pancreas is not able to request insulin demand, the blood sugar levels may increase, causing diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes).
Most diabetes disappears after the baby is born, although higher risk of getting pregnant again when the woman returned.
there is some impact on the baby if the mother is diabetic:
1. Excess blood sugar and insulin can cause the baby bigger and fatter, especially in the upper part of his body so that his weight becomes large.
This condition is called macrosomia and the possibility of the baby is too big to be born through the normal process so have to cesarean process.
Sometime after the baby is born, there is the possibility of the baby having a low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia). This is due to excess body still produces insulin in response to high glucose intake of the mother.
If doctors know that his mother suffered gestational diabetes, the newborn will be tested for blood sugar levels by taking a drop of blood from the baby's heel. If the level is low, the baby will be fed, but if the baby is too severe given the possibility of IV glucose solution.
2. Infants have hinger risk of jaundice (jaundice), polycuthemia (increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood) and hypocalcemia (low calcium levels in the blood).
3. If control of blood sugar levels worse, there is the possibility of cardiac function of the baby could be affected.
4. As for the pregnancy the mother of two times higher risk of pre-eclampsia.
In general, gestational diabetes does not have any specific symptoms. That's why almost all pregnant women need to check glucose levels at 24-28 weeks gestation. If the result is positive, it is necessary to control blood sugar and keep food intake.
Pregnant women with diabetes are vulnerable if overweight, have a history of gestational diabetes before or have a history of strong diabets in the family.
