Pregnancy-related diabetes : reducing the risk of complications

Hello again!!! Well in this time I will do a summary about a new item connected with my future career : Midwife.

I chose a new about gestacional diabetes. This disease development during the pregnancy and its symptoms are a high level of sugar in the pregnant woman. The baby`s sugar can be high too and because of that he could have problems during delivery like a caesarean section or a shoulder injury and also he can born with more weight. This affect to the mother too, she can development high blood preasure and in other cases a condition called pre-eclampsia that can produce death.

For reducing risk , pregnant women are checked for gestacional diabetes, more if they have some risk factors like overweight, someone in their family with diabetes or their babys are overweigt, etc. The woman who has this condition is treated advising her to change her diet an doing some exercising. If this doesn´t work the woman is treated using insulin. The problem is that this treatment is only for women that have a mild gestacional diabetes and is not helpful for women who have high level of sugar. What is the solution? : Prevent. Some studies revealed that women with mild gestacional diabetes have more chances to have a good pregnancy and delivery with less complications, also they can be treated without medicins (insulin). So for the pregnant woman is recommended to check for gestacional diabetes with their midwife and follow their treatment and advices , prevent is so easy and this will be the best for her and her little baby.