Diabetes that is not controlled can cause harm to a fetus, the mother, and a newborn child. When a person has or develops diabetes during a pregnancy, it takes extra effort to keep the baby and mom healthy. With diabetes, extra sugar is pooled in the blood. For the mom, uncontrolled diabetes can cause kidney, heart, and eye damage. For a child, it can lead to birth defects.<\/p>\n
Birth defects in the brain, spine, or child\u2019s heart could be caused due to uncontrolled diabetes. Sometimes diabetes can cause a child to be born too early and experience breathing, heart, bleeding, intestinal, or eyesight problems. For some women, the child can grow too large due to diabetes. Large babies can have their shoulder nerves or collarbones injured, or suffer from brain damage from lack of oxygen while being pushed out of the birth canal. In this scenario, doctors and delivery room professionals must (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diabetes that is not controlled can cause harm to a fetus, the mother, and a newborn child. When a person has or develops diabetes during a pregnancy, it takes extra effort to keep the baby and mom healthy. With diabetes,…<\/span><\/p>\n