If you maintain healthy blood glucose levels before and during your pregnancy, you have the same chance of delivering a healthy baby as all other women. High blood glucose levels around the time your baby is conceived can harm your baby. For this reason it is important to plan your pregnancy and get help and advice from your specialist diabetes service before becoming pregnant.
You will need to maintain very close contact with your closest specialist diabetes service during your pregnancy, as pregnancy alters your diabetes during the time you are carrying your baby. Having a baby is a very important time in your life.
It involves going through many changes as you and your body prepare for the coming baby. Managing your diabetes can be quite demanding during pregnancy while there is so much else going on. But it is very important for both you and your baby that you put extra effort into your diabetes at this time.
If your blood glucose levels are high at the time of conceiving your baby, and during the early weeks of pregnancy, your baby is at greater risk of developing abnormalities.
For this reason it is very important to plan your pregnancy where possible. If your pregnancy is planned you can work towards having as healthy-as-possible blood glucose levels during this time. If you are not planning to become pregnant make doubly sure you are using a safe form of contraception. Many of the contraceptive pills are safe for women with diabetes.
