Which women are at higher risk of getting Gestational Diabetes.

So, anyone who has a family history of diabetes, who had gestational diabetes before, if you're an older mom, especially above 30 or 35. If you are overweight, or obese, or you belong to any ethnic minority, with regard to how you figure out whether you're obese or overweight, you should use something called a BMI, which you can work out for yourself, which is your height and weight. Remember that there are different cutoffs for ethnicities. For example, if you're South Asian, you will be classed as overweight if your BMI is above 22.5 or 23. And you'll be classed as obese if you're above 27.5 and 28. It's different for say, for white Europeans where the cutoff for overweight is a BMI of 25 and obesity is 30. So I would say those are the people who may be at risk if you are going to get pregnant and you fall into any of those categories and you should go and see your GP because you may be on certain drugs that can affect your baby and so you need to come off those. So for example if you have high blood pressure and you're on something called an ACE inhibitor or ARV you should come off those or you should come off things like statins. So you should go and speak to your GP about coming off drugs that you may not need to be on and may be be harmful to your baby.