More Diabetic Moms-to-Be Than Ever

Hi Amy,

I'm glad to read your thoughts on this study. I have been blogging about it as well because I am frustrated by the fact that researchers (who like you said were funded by the ADA and should know better), did not designate type 1 and type 2 diabetic pregnant women in their findings. The study hammers a message about high blood sugars and birth defects, but fails to designate whether the increase in women with diabetes "pre-pregnancy" had type 1 or type 2 diabetes, and I fear that this will send a negative message to women with type 1. In one article I read that, "Kaiser researchers did not look at whether any of the women had prenatal diabetes care or how their babies fared after birth. They also could not determine the type of diabetes the women had." Could not determine??? What???

I think the aim of the study is positive and I hope that it will encourage women to seek better prenatal care. However, It angers me that our worst fears are preyed upon in this study. If it is only type 2 that is on the rise in women of childbearing years, then this needs to be clarified. Type 1 and type 2 are different diseases.

Please don't send us back to the "Steel Magnolia" days....As long as a woman is in good control, there is no reason she can't have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.