Gestational diabetes after pregnancy?

My friend is 34 weeks pregnant, and has gestational diabetes. The doctor put her on insulin shots because there was no good control with diet and exercise alone.
She is concerned if she will still have gestational diabetes after giving birth?

She wants to know when her blood sugar levels will be back to normal after giving birth? She is also worried about her baby: will her baby get type 1 or type 2 diabetes?

Sorry for lots of questions, but she is really worried about these issues of gestational diabetes after pregnancy.

Thank you.

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Apr 02, 2010
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by: Alba

Gestational Diabetes is a type of "isolated" diabetes. This means, that once your friend will give birth, she will not have any problem with diabetes, everything will be back to normal.

If she is not careful to what she eats, and conducts a sedentary life, most probably she will face type 2 diabetes as for any other person.

Your baby will face only a post-delivery hypoglycemia that will be settled very quickly and efficiently by the medical team.

The baby will carry out a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. However, this disease will be set up if your friend's baby will conduct a bad lifestyle and have bad "eating" habits or will be overweight.

So, it is very important that your friend start to take proper care of her self and teach her baby how to.

Congratulations to your friend!

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