Pregnancy complicated by diabetes is a medical challenge that can be minimized through a program of expert protocols and patient partnerships. This newly revised edition presents a complete package of these protocols that can help produce healthy infants in pregnancies complicated by type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.

Topics include:

--Pre and Inter-pregnancy counceling, assessment, and management

--Contraception in diabetes and prediabetes

--Nutrition management of preexisting diabetes

--Risk assessment, fetal surveillance and delivery in prenancies complicated by diabetes

--Neonatal care of infants of mothers with diabetes

--Management of gestational diabetes

--Diagnostic testing and fetal surveillance

--Use of insulin in pregnancy and assessment of glycemic control

--Postpartum concerns for women with diabetes