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What type of diabetes happens during pregnancy?
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Default What type of diabetes happens during pregnancy? - 12-20-2008, 06:16 PM

Like the question states, what type of diabetes happens during pregnancy.More importantly, why does the head of most babies are usually abnormally large after such a pregnancy?I am more looking for an answer on why there heads are usually large after such a pregnancy.It is a question my teacher has been asking and he wants to know why.
   
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Default 12-22-2008, 01:45 AM

Diabetes during pregnancy is called gestational diabetes. It usually goes away after you have the baby.I don't know why the babies head would be large. I had gestational diabetes and neither one of my children had large heads. Hope that this answer helps you.**
   
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Default 12-22-2008, 10:41 AM

There is a slight increased risk of the fetus or newborn dying when the mother has gestational diabetes, but this risk is lowered with effective treatment and careful watching of the mother and fetus. High blood glucose levels often go back to normal after delivery. However, women with gestational diabetes should be watched closely after giving birth and at regular intervals to detect diabetes early.Up to 40% of women with gestational diabetes develop full-blown diabetes within 5-10 years after delivery. The risk may be increased in obese women.Please see the web pages for more details on Gestational diabetes.
   
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Default 01-03-2009, 04:51 PM

Ask your physcian!
   
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Default 01-09-2009, 07:40 AM

I am really not sure. But you can ask the doctor and they can tell you for sure. But the type of diabetes a women gets during pregnancy is sugar diabetes.
   
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Default 02-03-2009, 06:32 PM

Its called gestational diabetes, pregnant women are prone to that, and that's one reason why babies born on women experiencing that type of diabetes are quite big. Although, I'm not sure what you mean on, babies having an abnormal size of the head.
   
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Default 04-02-2009, 02:01 PM

Babies who's mothers have gestational diabetes are at risk for being heavy. Heavier the baby, bigger the head (at least I'd assume).
   
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Gestational Diabetes....
   
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