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Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes, or high blood sugar, that only pregnant women get. In fact, the word gestational means pregnant. If a woman gets high blood sugar when she's pregnant, but she never had high blood sugar before, she has gestational diabetes.

 

If you're diagnosed with gestational diabetes, follow your doctor's orders regarding medication and lifestyle choices. Doing so can often mean that after your baby's birth neither, you or the baby will have any diabetic-related problems.

 

Published 09/23/09