How Did I Develop Gestational Diabetes"
Your Amazing Body
Your incredible pregnant body adapts in many ways to feed and provide for your growing baby. Your placenta brings nutrition and oxygen to baby while it removes carbon dioxide and waste. You and your baby receive energy from glucose, what we often think of as ?blood sugar,? carried to your body?s cells via insulin. Your pancreas produces insulin and releases it into your bloodstream; still, it doesn?t move through the placenta to baby.
Your baby?s pancreas produces its own insulin. During pregnancy, your body has circulating hormones that resist the effects of insulin, which slows how fast glucose enters your cells, and this helps baby receive glucose for their developing body.
Your body adapts to provide the glucose your baby needs to grow and develop. How Does Gestational Diabetes Develop"
Gestational diabetes develops when your pancreas can?t produce the extra insulin needed to balance the insulin resistance created by pregnancy hormones. This leaves more glucose circulating in your blood than normal, which is known as high blood sugar or hyperglycemia. Approximately 2-10% of pregnancies are complicated by gestational diabetes.
How is Gestational Diabetes Diagnosed"
There are two types of laboratory tests used to diagnose gestational diabetes, a screening test, and a confirmation test.
Laboratory screening test: Your healthcare provider will likely order a glucose screening test, otherwise known as a glucose challenge test, between 24 and 28 w...
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