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Babe i know times are tough for you12/22/2023 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) podcast, Gestational Diabetes and Women, tells expectant moms more about diabetes during pregnancy. Babies born with excess insulin become children who are at risk for obesity and adults who are at risk for type 2 diabetes. Because of the extra insulin made by the baby's pancreas, newborns may have very low blood glucose levels at birth and are also at higher risk for breathing problems. Babies with macrosomia face health problems of their own, including damage to their shoulders during birth. This can lead to macrosomia, or a "fat" baby. Since the baby is getting more energy than it needs to grow and develop, the extra energy is stored as fat. ![]() This causes the baby's pancreas to make extra insulin to get rid of the blood glucose. So extra blood glucose goes through the placenta, giving the baby high blood glucose levels. Although insulin does not cross the placenta, glucose and other nutrients do. When you have gestational diabetes, your pancreas works overtime to produce insulin, but the insulin does not lower your blood glucose levels. However, untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can hurt your baby. Because of this, gestational diabetes does not cause the kinds of birth defects sometimes seen in babies whose mothers had diabetes before pregnancy. Gestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby's body has been formed, but while the baby is busy growing. Without enough insulin, glucose cannot leave the blood and be changed to energy. Glucose builds up in the blood to high levels, called hyperglycemia. Gestational diabetes starts when your body is not able to make and use all the insulin it needs for pregnancy. ![]() She may need up to three times as much insulin. This problem is called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance makes it hard for the mother's body to use insulin. But these hormones also block the action of the mother's insulin in her body. Hormones from the placenta help the baby develop. The placenta supports the baby as it grows. ![]() We don't know what causes gestational diabetes, but we have some clues.
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