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Family Planning

Is there a possibility of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy precipitating diabetes insipidus?

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My sister-in-law is having some symptoms in early pregnancy which sound, to me, like hypoglycaemia. Can reactive hypoglycaemia in early pregnancy prefigure diabetes in pregnancy and/or diabetes in later life? Can reactive hypoglycaemia in early pregnancy affect the baby?

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I a 31 year old who has had type 2 diabetes for almost two years, and I have discovered I am pregnant (unplanned). I am not overweight, and I have been taking Glucophage and a sulfonylurea. Could these medications have been harmful to the baby?

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I am getting married next month and would like to start a family in a couple of years. I am worried about the effects that pregnancy will have on my body and about the chance of my children developing diabetes. Could you give me some information?

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I have had type 1 diabetes for 38 years, I have a healthy five year old son who was born six weeks early because of toxemia and, during the pregnancy, I had three major insulin reactions. However, my son is having problems with his attention span at school, and I wondering if these “crashes” (losing oxygen to my brain) could have affected my son. Could any of those problems that I went through, have any effect on my son?

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I am 29 years old and have type 2 diabetes. My blood sugars, at this point in time, run about 450 mg/dl [25 mmol/L] which I know is very high. I really want to have a baby, but my doctors say that won’t happen until I get my blood sugars down. Is this right? Do you have any suggestions on how to get pregnant?

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I am trying to get pregnant and want to know that I am. I want to keep my blood sugars in the best control as possible. What guidelines should I follow to keep my blood sugars great?

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I have had type 1 diabetes for the past 16 years. I am “well controlled” and my husband and I have decided to start trying for a baby. Apart from monitoring my blood sugars, is there anything else I should be doing?

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I am 29 and I have had type 1 diabetes for 17 years. I struggled with my HMO to get an insulin pump because I was going into several comas. I became pregnant, but went into another coma at four weeks. At eight weeks, an ultrasound determined that my baby’s heart was not beating. Did that coma cause me to lose my baby?

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I am four months pregnant, and I have had a few really low blood sugars in the past two months. I want to know if this is really harmful to the baby or if it could make the baby die because I know it causes the umbilical cord to tighten.

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