Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-existing Diabetes - Cheryl Alkon

Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-existing Diabetes

Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby

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Buch | Softcover
198 Seiten
2010
Demos Medical Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-932603-32-3 (ISBN)
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A guide for diabetic mothers-to-be. It explains everything from what is diabetes to labor, delivery, and infertility. It includes medical facts, first person reports, and interviews from women living with diabetes who share their pregnancy related experiences.
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 labour, 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
Labour 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.

Cheryl 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, named one of About.com's Six Diabetes Blogs Worth Visiting.

The Early Days; 1. Recommendations for trying to conceive: If You Can, You've Gotta Plan; The First Trimester: Grace Under Pressure 2. I See Two Lines Ç Now What?; 3. What do I Eat?; 4. Tests and Bloods and Rockin' Goals: Pregnancy Assessemnts and Prenatal Exams; The Second and Third Trimesters: Things Keep Growing and Growing 5. In the Thick of It; 6. Approaching the Big Day; Hello, Mama! 7. The Big Day; 8. The New Mom, With Diabetes; When Blood Sugar Control Isn't Enough Infertility and Pregnancy Loss; Other Resources.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.4.2010
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 372 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Schwangerschaft / Geburt
Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Diabetologie
ISBN-10 1-932603-32-8 / 1932603328
ISBN-13 978-1-932603-32-3 / 9781932603323
Zustand Neuware
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