Diabetes and Pregnancy: What to Expect (Paperback)

by American Diabetes Association (Author), Task Force for the American Diabetes Association Council on Pregnancy (Corporate Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
This is a comprehensive guide for the woman with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes who is pregnant or is thinking about having a baby. Diabetes and Pregnancy: What to Expect explains the important elements of proper diabetes care during pregnancy, including meal planning, exercise, insulin therapy, and monitoring. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 75 pages
• Publisher: Amer Diabetes Assn; Updated edition (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945448058
• ISBN-13: 978-0945448051
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,446,027 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Basic Information but not enough for type 1's, June 5, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This books title is very promising but it doesn't follow through. It contains good basic information but almost nothing on the potential risks of high blood sugar during pregnancy. There is also no information on reasons that your doctor might want to deliver early or other special needs that a woman with type 1 diabetes might want to consider when planning her delivery.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "What to expect" leaves you still expecting!, March 7, 1999

By A Customer

Although the title promised a great deal of information, I was very disappointed. Most of the chapters do not go indepth enough to really inform and comfort. It is missing a great deal of information that a well versed insulin dependent diabetic woman would want and expect to know/learn. For example, it doesn't mention the use of insuln pump therapy, the use of Humulog insulin nor the rotation of injection sites in pregnancy...it just didn't do it for me. This book is the type you woud find on a Dr. office waiting room table..just to browse through, not used for heavy duty info. Overall, it would be excellent for an expecting woman to use this book to aid her in questioning her Doctors further...not as an indepth source alone.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was my first book and was very helpful!, July 27, 2004

By	Elizabeth J. Woolley "Editor, DiabeticMommy.com" (Tucson, Arizona) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Diabetes & Pregnancy: What to Expect (Paperback)

I am the editor of Diabetic Mommy Online Magazine - DiabeticMommy.com

I am a type 2 diabetic, and had to start insulin when I got pregnant with my son. At that time I felt there was little information on pregnancy and diabetes and this little book was a God-send.

I was not a diabetes expert by any means, so this booklet was great for giving me a frame of reference for all the new information that was suddently being shoved in my direction. When you are a newly pregnant diabetic, many times you can find yourself overwhelmed by all the information they want you to learn NOW. As time passed, I realized much of the information I was getting in kits, booklets, pamphlets and information sheets was just the same information rehashed over and over. The reason why I was able to mentally organize the information and stop feeling like I was in another country when it came to diabetes terms was because of this book.

I've looked at the other reviews and see that many of the negative reviews came from type 1 diabetics. And, I can understand why they would feel this way. They most likely have lived most of their life with this disease, and this little booklet goes over a lot of stuff they already know.

This is a little book, about 75 pages. It contains 10 brief chapters and sections with the following titles:

Diabetes, Pregnancy & You
How Your Baby Develops
What to Expect in Nine Months
Diabetes During Pregnancy
Insulin Therapy
Nutrition, Diabetes, and Pregnancy
Exercise, Diabetes, and Pregnancy
Monitoring Your Diabetes
Problems Associated with Diabetes
More About Pregnancy
Tests to Expect During Your Pregnancy
Labor and Delivery
Birth Control
Making the Choice

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