PERSONAL HEALTH; Diabetes Is a Risk in Pregnancy That Carries Risks Beyond

Elise Bloustein, always slender and healthy, was 38 when she became pregnant with her first child in 1990. Her joy was tempered by the results of tests that revealed two problems: anemia and gestational diabetes, which Ms. Bloustein believes may have been caused by stress associated with the deaths of her parents. Regardless of the cause, the conditions required close attention to what she ate. The doctor sent her to a nutritionist who put her on a diabetes diet and told her to self-test her bl…

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