Gestational Diabetes

Two types of diabetes can occur during pregnancy—pre-existing diabetes, which will continue after pregnancy, and gestational diabetes, which will go away after the baby is born. Diabetes is a condition in which your body doesn't make enough insulin or you can't use it correctly. This video offers details on how these two types diabetes can affect a pregnancy.

Learn why choosing healthy carbohydrate and other food groups, while managing portion sizes, is important in controlling your blood glucose level and in providing enough nutrients to you and your growing baby.

Learn why exercising safely is an important part of managing gestational diabetes, and understand how to prevent low blood glucose while exercising.

Watch this demonstration of how to test your blood glucose levels at home.

Learn why injected insulin may be prescribed for a woman with gestational diabetes.

Learn why monitoring your blood glucose and ketone levels at home and keeping regular healthcare visits are important when you have gestational diabetes.