If you do develop diabetes while you are pregnant, it is termed gestational diabetes.  If you’ve done any pregnancy research, you probably already know that a baby grows through the nutrients and support through the placenta that connects you to your unborn baby.  The hormones located in the placenta block the action of insulin within the body.  This blockage reverses the body’s natural ability to produce insulin causing the pregnant mother to become insulin resistant.  This could mean that your body has to produce three times as much insulin to support natural body functions.

This lack of insulin affects the extra glucose in the system that builds up in the blood stream.  The result of this is hyperglycemia.  This is something you have to be more worried about developing later in your pregnancy.  The baby’s body will continue to grow, but this is when diabetes will start affecting the mother.  You must be very careful to take care of yourself at this time so that your health, or lack of, doesn’t affect your child by causing any serious birth defects.

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