Gestational diabetes is a form of high blood sugar that occurs only during pregnancy. Women with gestational diabetes have normal blood sugars before pregnancy, and the large majority will have normal blood sugars immediately after they deliver. Some women have undiagnosed diabetes or prediabetes that they and their medical providers did not know they had prior to becoming pregnant. In this case, it can be difficult to determine whether the mother had been diabetic or is experiencing gestational diabetes, but treatment during pregnancy is the same: controlling blood sugars to the same goals with lifestyle changes or medication.
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