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2 Ways Gestational Diabetes Affects Your Baby

November 19, 2008

If gestational diabetes is not tested for or ignored it can have few adverse effects on your newborn baby. Macrosomia Macrosomia occurs when your baby weighs more than 8.8 pounds.  This excessive weight gain is caused by the mother passing too much sugar to the baby and the baby inturn converting this sugar to fat.   [...]

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