Anyone here who could help me out on how to take good care a woman who is pregnant and at the same time suffering with this kind of illness, where the child will not be affected with it? Cause I got a very close friend of mine, who had this, and this time she is pregnant.

When I was pregnant, I had this. After I had the baby, I did not have this condition any longer. All I had to do during the pregnancy was monitor my sugar intake and be tested a couple more times to make sure the levels didn't go any higher. (which they didn't) As far as I know, neither one of the children were affected by this. Hope this helps.

Thank you for the informative information. So you mean, there is a possibility that even a woman is affected by this disease, children will not have this as long as the mother will take some precautions. But isn't it that diabetis is hereditary? so for now, they are not affected, but maybe when they become parents and had children too, their children will got the disease, is that correct?

In my case, I am not normally a diabetic, and my husband is not. So the children won't get it from us. I only had the problems when I was pregnant and because I took the precautions and was monitored closely it went away. My husband's mother is a diabetic, so they have more of a chance of getting the gene from her than from me. Hope this helps

gestational diabetes is a condition that could be indicative of a problem.
When a mother has gestational diabetes that emans the pancreas cant handle the overload ofrom teh developing fetus.
Its too much for her pancreas to bear in outputting insulin. The fetus in reaction to this begins to excrete insulin to combat it.
What this does is create a new problem.
Because gestational diabeets has with it the same risks as diabetes the consideration of Ketone problems in developing fetus has to be considered. the same amount of cell damage is present of every so slightly.
The problems come on down teh line. Once gestational diabetes has occurred the compromise to the pancrease has been done. Though you may not show signs of it nopw, the older you get the higher your risk factor for developing diabetes is geater because you ahve an alraedy exhausted pancrease.
Yourc child has an incaresed risk of developing MODY as well, because his/her pancrease has had to work harder than in a normal situation.
So both mother and child are at a higher risk for developiong diabetes than a woman and child who has not been compromised.

YOuc an lessen the chances of early development by maintaining a good healthy diet and exercise. BUt the sorry fact is that eventually both of you will have developed it later on.

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Wow,

I never knew this. I just assumed because I was cleared after giving birth, that me and my children were fine and would be fine. Thanks for the info, because now it will make me keep a closer eye on things.

One other thing..
If you are very active and your child is very active thats the best bonus.
Because it will keep it at bay for a really long time.................

If you and your children are active, it will keep it at bay, but will it eventually catch up with you down the road?

Its true. In studies that ahve taken over 25 years they discovered that thsoe women who had gestational diabetes were more likely to develope full blown diabetes later on in life because their pancrease was more ehustyed and teh beta cells began to fail earlier.
The children who had bear the brunt in utero also developed a higher risk of developiong type2 at an earlier age.
what is a conencted thinking is that by knowing this,. more are getting a better grip on being regulalry tested, get comfortable with teh idea of type 2 down the road and take a more active role in their health. that is more activity, better diets etc.
And when the time comes when they do develope type 2 they can handle it more because they were informed.