- Gestational diabetes is diabetes that develops in pregnancy. Most women who have gestational diabetes have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies.
- You will be given advice about blood glucose monitoring, diet, exercise and weight management to help treat the condition. You may be offered tablets or insulin injections. You will have further support in your pregnancy by a specialist healthcare team.
- Occasionally gestational diabetes can lead to complications in pregnancy or during birth, especially if it goes unrecognized or is not well controlled.
- Gestational diabetes usually goes away after the baby is born but you have a higher chance of developing gestational diabetes in a future pregnancy and type 2 diabetes in later life.
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