Watch this video to learn how gestational diabetes affects your pregnancy, including how hormones produced during your pregnancy affect your blood glucose levels, and the testing for gestational diabetes.
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that happens only during pregnancy. Changes that occur in your body during pregnancy cause your blood sugar (glucose) to be too high. This can cause problems for the baby and for you.
This is a form of diabetes you can develop when you're pregnant. It usually goes away after birth. But we need to manage gestational diabetes for your health and for the health of your baby.
Being diagnosed with gestational diabetes can be stressful. But with proper care and management, you can stay healthy and deliver a healthy baby. In many cases, gestational diabetes goes away on its own after the mother gives birth.
Watch this video to learn why choosing healthy carbohydrates and other healthy foods, while managing portion sizes, is important in controlling your blood glucose level and in providing enough nutrients to you and your growing baby.
Watch this video to learn why exercising safely is an important part of managing gestational diabetes, and understand how to prevent low blood glucose while exercising.
Exercise can help you keep your blood sugar within a normal range. That's because your body uses more blood sugar when you exercise.
Watch this video to learn why monitoring your blood glucose and ketone levels at home and keeping regular healthcare visits are important when you have gestational diabetes.
Watch this video to learn what CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) is and how to use it to manage gestational diabetes.
Watch this video for a demonstration of how to test your blood glucose levels at home.
Watch this video to learn how taking insulin can help keep your blood glucose in a healthy range when you have gestational diabetes.
Watch this video to learn how to prepare your supplies and properly inject a single dose of insulin.
Watch this video to learn how to prepare and properly inject a mixed dose of insulin.
Watch this video to learn the correct technique for injecting insulin with a syringe, the recommended places on your body to inject, and how to properly dispose of your used syringe.
Watch this video to learn the steps for injecting insulin using an insulin pen and the recommended areas of your body to inject. Also, learn how to properly dispose of your used needle.
Watch this video to learn how to safely choose an injection site to take insulin when you have gestational diabetes.
Watch this video to learn how to recognize the symptoms of hypoglycemia, how to treat it if it happens, and the importance of discussing it with your healthcare provider.
Watch this video to learn the possible complications and risks to both you and your baby after delivery, and tips to help lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future.
Your blood sugar will most likely return to normal after delivery. But gestational diabetes is a warning sign that you are at risk of getting diabetes later in life. You can take steps to reduce risks.
