Pregnancy

Delivery

As your due date nears, your doctors will study your health and that of your growing baby. Then, you and the team will discuss the best time and method for delivery. To determine the safest time and method to deliver your baby,

Prenatal Care

Pregnancy is often a time of great highs and lows. It can be awesome and thrilling—when you hear the baby’s heartbeat or feel the first tiny kick. It can also be frustrating and even scary. Because we know more about

Pregnancy

Health care providers now know that the key to a healthy pregnancy for a woman with diabetes is keeping blood glucose (sugar) in the target range—both before she is pregnant and during her pregnancy.

What does gestational diabetes for my child?

What about my child? The risk of malformations in the fetus are rare because gestational diabetes typically occurs after organs are formed. If your blood sugar is well controlled, the risk that your child will have problems not

What does gestational diabetes to me?

Complications in pregnancy? You have a slightly increased risk for the same complications that can occur in all other pregnant women. Additionally, you have a particularly increased risk of: high blood pressure eclampsia

The screening process

Pregnant with sugar in the urine screened, regardless of when in the pregnancy diabetes occurs. Additionally screened following pregnant in these weeks: In weeks 14-20 screened: pregnant women who have had gestational diabetes

Symptoms of gestational diabetes

Symptoms of gestational diabetes Any symptoms of pregnancy diabetes is also the same as for type 2 diabetes: increased urination and thirst. Often there are no symptoms, and therefore, all pregnant women with increased risk

Pregnancy diabetes

Have you been told that you have gestational diabetes? And you wonder now about what it really is, what it can mean for you and your unborn child? Or maybe you have been summoned to a glucose load test and wonder why, and what

Young with diabetes type 2 and pregnancy

Even if you have type 2 diabetes, you have good possibilities for a successful pregnancy and a healthy, healthy child. But it requires effort on your part, for research unfortunately shows that there are major risks associated

Have you had diabetes during your pregnancy?

Approximately 1,800 pregnant women suffer annually from pregnancy diabetes in Denmark. These women are most likely already predisposed to developing Type 2 diabetes. The hereditary disposition can not do anything about, but the