Guide to help women with diabetes have healthier pregnancies

We’ve been hearing so much bad news about diabetes and pregnancy, that here’s some good news. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has published an illustrated 44-page booklet called, For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy.

According to their website, the booklet “includes information about checking and controlling blood glucose — also called blood sugar levels, maintaining a healthy diet,
staying physically active and taking tests and diabetes medications during pregnancy. The importance of planning for pregnancy and getting blood glucose levels under control before pregnancy to decrease the risk of birth defects associated with diabetes is emphasized. Logs for recording daily blood glucose and ketone levels, food intake and
physical activity are included.”

You can get a copy at the website: NIDDK.gov. If you’re looking for Spanish language information, a Spanish text should be available soon.

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