What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy?
Up to 5 percent of all women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy. The fine pregnant woman with a flower image by Andrey Andreev from Fotolia.com Gestational diabetes affects about 2 percent to 5 percent of all expectant moms. Some women who develop the disease have no symptoms; in other women the symptoms may be mild or the same as other symptoms commonly experienced during pregnancy. For that reason, all women should be screened for gestational diabetes at some point during pregnancy. The good news is that most women who develop gestational diabetes find that it goes away after the baby is born. When Testing Occurs Glucose screening for gestational diabetes is usually done between the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy, because the condition usually develops in the second half of pregnancy. That is when the placenta produces large amounts of hormones that might cause insulin resistance in the mother’s body. The placenta produces hormones that act on insulin to ensure that the b
