Gestational Diabetes

When glucose builds up in the blood it s called hyperglycemia.

Gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes occurs when your body can t make enough insulin during your pregnancy. Gestational diabetes causes high blood sugar that can affect your pregnancy and your baby s health. Gestational diabetes usually shows up in the middle of pregnancy. There are two classes of.

Gestational diabetes is a condition in which your blood sugar levels become high during pregnancy. Doctors most often test for it between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. A blood sugar level of 190 milligrams per deciliter mg dl or 10 6 millimoles per liter mmol l indicates gestational diabetes. Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into the cells in your body for use as energy.

Gestational diabetes typically develops between the 24th and 28th weeks of pregnancy. The word gestational means the time when the baby grows in the womb. Gestational diabetes can cause health problems in both mother and baby. Gestational diabetes is first diagnosed during pregnancy.

Glucose enters your bloodstream so your cells can use it as fuel. Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy. During pregnancy your body makes more hormones and goes through other changes such as weight gain. Managing your diabetes can help protect you and your baby.

It affects up to 10 of women who are pregnant in the u s. Gestational diabetes is diabetes diagnosed for the first time during pregnancy gestation. Like other types of diabetes gestational diabetes affects how your cells use sugar glucose. Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar that you get only when you re pregnant.

When you eat your digestive system breaks down most of the food into a sugar called glucose. Some women have more than one pregnancy affected by gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes can also start when the mother s body is not able to make and use all the insulin it needs for pregnancy. Like type 1 and type 2 diabetes gestational diabetes causes blood sugar levels to become too high.

A blood sugar below 140 mg dl 7 8 mmol l is usually considered normal on a glucose challenge test although this may vary by clinic or lab. Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that is first seen in a pregnant woman who did not have diabetes before she was pregnant.