Diabetic Lie #9: Diabetic Women Can’t Have Kids

While a pregnancy is consider high-risk for a woman with diabetes, it is manageable by a ten of health-care experts.

As a matter of fact, today, thousands of women with diabetes safely deliver babies each year.

Yet, at one time, the medical standard of care was to advise female diabetics not to conceive. The very popular movie Steel Magnolias documents this practice — and keeps this lie alive.

If you’re a diabetic female, and your desire is to give birth, check with your physician and investigate the very real possibility of experiencing birth, even with diabetes. It is a possibility.

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