Excessive weight gain, obesity, family history and ethnicity are some of the contributing factors for this well characterized disease impacting pregnant women around the world.

Gestation Diabetes is intolerance of glucose in the beginning or first recognition during pregnancy. It causes high blood sugars which can affect your pregnancy and babies’ health.

Risk factors for gestational diabetes includes- obesity, age greater, family history, pcod, ethnicity and pre- diabetes. During gestational diabetes body is unable to make and use all the insulin it needs for pregnancy.

Did you know post-delivery your blood sugars will return to normal but the patient will automatically be at risk of developing type 2 diabetes at a later stage in life?

Through healthy diet, exercise, medication and monitoring blood sugars we can control complications arising from gestational diabetes. We assist you manage your condition through strategies which suits you needs.