For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy

Filed in archive Information , News , Resources on August 5, 2008

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ulises Sepúlveda Déniz

For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy is a resource booklet from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, published to help guide women with diabetes deal with pregnancy.

For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy is an illustrated, 44-page booklet that includes information about checking and controlling blood glucose - also called blood sugar levels, maintaining a healthy diet, staying physically active and taking tests and diabetes medications during pregnancy.

The importance of planning for pregnancy and getting blood glucose levels under control before pregnancy to decrease the risk of birth defects associated with diabetes is emphasized. Logs for recording daily blood glucose and ketone levels, food intake and physical activity are included.

After all diabetes puts women in a high-risk pregnancy level. Extra care is necessary, to say the least.

Read the NIH news for complete information on getting a copy or just click here for the online version.