Diabetes in pregnancy is a risk for either diabetes or sugar intolerance after pregnancy. Many factors will contribute to remaining diabetic after your pregnancy, but it's most important to have testing so that you know if you are still diabetic after pregnancy or not. Then treatments can be properly designed. Diabetic women with no significant vascular disease can safely use birth control pills for their contraception. Mostly we know that the doses of estrogen and progesterone in oral contraception are so low compared to the levels of those hormones in pregnancy we tend to ignore their possible effect on diabetes and glucose intolerance and blood sugar levels once you have actually delivered.. Most pregnancy diabetic women who end pregnancy are no longer diabetic if they deliver, especially if this was a new diagnosis. Loosing weight, exercising, continuing the right diet are all important ways to control blood sugar. Breastfeeding helps to control the blood su...
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