How do people get gestational diabetes?
During pregnancy, the different hormones in the pregnant woman’s body result in not using insulin very well. Perhaps, this is because the unborn child may place a demand on the woman’s body for sugar (glucose) to get needed nourishment. But, there has to be a balance. When the woman’s body determines that there really is too much sugar available in the blood stream, then the pancreas (organ in the body that makes insulin) will simply just produce more insulin, and every thing will be fine. In the case of the woman with gestational diabetes, the pancreas will not make the extra insulin that is needed. The result is acquiring gestational diabetes. What happens when gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy? The extra sugar (glucose) will cross the placenta to the unborn baby. Their little pancreas will make more insulin and they will have more energy than the need at this time; as a result, the baby will become fat or macrosomic. These babies may have difficulty being born due to th
