5 tips for a healthy pregnancy with diabetes
5 tips for a healthy pregnancy with diabetes
A healthy pregnancy with diabetes is possible. Keep yourself and your baby in good health with these five important health tips
By Jacqueline Nunes
5. Get tested post-delivery
Care for gestational and other types of diabetes doesn’t end with a healthy delivery. Recently, the Canadian Diabetes Association launched an education program designed at getting women who’d had gestational diabetes back in their doctors’ offices for postnatal tests.
University of Toronto researchers linked gestational diabetes to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes within nine years after giving birth. “By diagnosing prediabetes and managing it with lifestyle counseling—for example, diet, weight loss and exercise—we can reduce the risk of diabetes by 60 percent,” Snyder says.
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And don't forget to look after your feet! Your feet take a bashing every day even without being pregnant and having diabetes! After a hard day keep for feet up for an hour or so and visit your podiatrist or chiropodist regularly.
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