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For women with diabetes mellitus, pregnancy can present some particular challenges for both mother and child. If the woman who is pregnant has diabetes or develops diabetes during pregnancy, it can cause early childbirth|labor, birth defects, and very large babies. During a normal pregnancy, a lot of physiological changes occur that influence blood glucose levels, such as a glucose-'drain' to the fetus, slowed emptying of the stomach, increased excretion of glucose by the kidneys and resistance of cell (biology)|cells to insulin. Miscarriage, birth defects, growth restriction, growth acceleration, fetal obesity (macrosomia), polyhydramnios. Disturbed blood glucose levels. Blood glucose levels in the pregnant woman should be regulated as strictly as possible. In diabetes mellitus type 2, oral antidiabetic drugs should be replaced with insulin.
Category:Obstetrics Category:Diabetes This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Diabetes mellitus and pregnancy".
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