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If you are nearing your due date and are suffering from gestational diabetes, you are probably worried if you will have a natural delivery or not. Try not to be. These days a lot of pregnant women are facing the problem of gestational diabetes (GD) or high blood sugar level during pregnancy. What was once a relatively rare condition, occurring in about 4% of pregnancies is becoming common in pregnant women nowadays. In recent years, the rate of women developing gestational diabetes has doubled, and experts believe the occurrence of the disease will keep increasing. Having gestational diabetes can have a lot of harmful effect on the health of the pregnant woman and her unborn baby during pregnancy, but is it really impacting how they give birth? Having gestational diabetes does not really imply that you cannot have your child vaginally. The good news is that most of the pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes have uncomplicated deliveries and healthy babies. Obviously, unlike a normal pregnancy, the doctor has to consider different factors during a vaginal delivery if you are having gestational diabetes. Read on to know if it is possible to have a natural delivery with gestational diabetes.
Several factors are crucial during labor and vaginal delivery of pregnant woman having gestational diabetes. Foremost, home birth is not allowed as there may be an immediate requirement of specialist medical attention in case of any complications for both the mother and her baby after delivery.
There are several reasons why doctors recommend induction of labor for women with gestational diabetes. Please remember many of these complications occur in those women whose diabetes in not well managed:
Therefore, inducing labor a little earlier in such situation will make vaginal delivery easier. This is because the baby’s size and weight increase considerably towards the last couple of weeks. Inducing labor a couple of weeks before the due date, thus, prevents the baby from putting on extra weight.
For a successful vaginal delivery for women with gestational diabetes, the doctors may follow few precautions such as:
Gestational diabetes has become very common and if it is properly managed through diet and exercise, the chances to have a normal birth are quite high.
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