Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes
Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby
Cheryl Alkon
Forthcoming
in 03/2010
186 pp Softcover
ISBN 1932603328 / 9781932603323
Price: $18.95
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Description
Diabetes affects women of all life stages. According to the CDC, about 1.85 million women, in the US, of reproductive age (18-44 years) have diabetes. If not managed properly, expectant mothers with diabetes are more likely to encounter complications such as preeclampsia, birth defects, other health problems, and infections. Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby, is a down to earth guide for diabetic mothers-to-be. The book explains everything from what is diabetes to labor, delivery, and infertility. Unlike existing books written in dry scientific language, this is a unique patient-written guidebook that includes medical facts, first person reports, and interviews from women living with diabetes who share their pregnancy related experiences. Topics covered include
- What is Diabetes?
- Finding the right doctor
- The first, second, and third trimesters
- Labor and delivery
- Balancing your health needs with those of your child
- Infertility and pregnancy loss
- Resources
Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes is a complete guide for diabetic women who want to successfully plan their pregnancies.
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Contents Introductions; Recommendations for trying to conceive: If You Can, You’ve Gotta Plan; See Two Lines – Now What?; What do I Eat? Tests and Bloods and Shocking Goals: Keeping the Blood Sugars in Line; In the Thick of It; Approaching the Big Day; The Big Day; The New Mom with Diabetes; Infertility and Pregnancy Loss; Other Resources.- return to top -
About the Author
Cheryl AlkonCheryl Alkon is a writer, researcher and editor whose work has appeared in national and regional magazines and newspapers. She’s lived with type 1 diabetes for over 30 years and has become an active member of the online diabetes blogging community with her blog Managing the Sweetness Within (www.thesweetnesswithin.blogspot.com) — named one of About.com’s “Six Diabetes Blogs Worth Visiting.”
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