Managing Your Gestational Diabetes: A Guide for You and Your Baby's Good Health
This book is designed to answer your questions about gestational diabetes. It provides information on what you need to do during your pregnancy and after, as well as some tips on how to ensure your good health in the years ahead.
The more you know, the better you’ll be able to manage the remaining months of your pregnancy. With the help of your health care team, you’ll be able to take the steps needed to control your gestational diabetes, reduce your own health risks--and, most important, protect your baby. Using the book, you can make the lifestyle changes needed to get through the rest of your pregnancy.
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Book details
- Author
- Lois Jovanovic-Peterson
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 140
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Diseases & Conditions › Diabetes
- Topics
- pregnancy complications · prenatal care · women's health · healthy pregnancy · diabetes management · maternal health
- ISBN-13
- 9780471346845 (Paperback)9781630261320 (Hardcover)
About the author
LOIS JOVANOVIC-PETERSON was a clinical endocrinologist and researcher who authored more than 500 articles and books, pioneering protocols for intensive insulin delivery and glucose control in pregnancy. Her books include The Diabetic Woman and A Touch of Diabetes.
Jovanovic-Peterson received the American Diabetes Association Outstanding Physician Award and the ADA Norbert Freinkel Award. She served as CEO and chief scientific officer of Sansum Diabetes Research Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and held degrees from Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.