Pregnancy is the period during which your body undergoes various changes, because it is the time for your baby nourishment.
You need more rest, energy and nutrients for the baby’s growth during your pregnancy.
Effects of type 1 or type 2 diabetes on you:
- You need to be physically active. If you are a pregnant with diabetes, then there are greater chances in your body’s blood sugar to increase more often and more quickly.
- If you cannot control your blood sugar levels, then you will get some of the most common issues of diabetes or those issues become worse if you already have.
- Uncontrollable blood sugar levels can lead to miscarriage. Sometimes, this can also cause a great rise in blood pressure during your pregnancy.
- High blood pressure during pregnancy can cause your baby to born sooner or causes strokes or seizures at the time of labor and delivery.
- Uncontrollable blood sugar leads to deposit large amounts of amniotic fluid around the baby, thus leading to preterm labor.
- The other problem common to women with uncontrollable diabetes lead to too much growth of their baby. Along with other complications during the last months of pregnancy, this extra baby growth causes some additional complications for you and your baby.
Effects of type 1 or type 2 diabetes on your developing baby:
- Diabetes during pregnancy leads to miscarriage.
- There is a chance for your baby to born with low birth weight.
- Also, birth defects are common in babies born to diabetics. The uncontrollable blood sugar levels can affect the baby’s organs during their development and cause severe birth defects, like problems to brain, heart, spine, and finally lead to miscarriage of the growing baby.
- Uncontrollable blood sugar leads to a greater increase in your baby’s blood sugar. This in turn can lead to more usage of insulin by your baby and also uses additional calories or accumulates them as fat.
- Frequent fluctuations in blood sugar can lead to extra large babies. This can happen in women who have type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes. This large size causes more problems at the time of delivery.
- During the delivery time, more pressure on baby’s shoulders can lead to nerve damage.
- Babies born to diabetic women are more likely to become obese or a chance to develop Type 2 diabetes soon after in life.
- Diabetes lead to premature birth, which again cause heart problems, breathing problems, intestinal problems, vision problems and bleeding in the brain.
- Low birth weight babies born to diabetic women have various problems in gaining weight, staying warm, fighting against diseases and eating problems.
