Dr Mushtaqur Rahman, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist explains that tests are done at 6 weeks an 3 months after giving birth. These will indicate if you have developed Diabetes. He explains that the best thing you can do to avoid Diabetes is to lose weight.
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So three months after you've had your baby, or sometimes at six weeks, you will have another assessment of your blood sugar state. At six weeks, your GP will probably do a fasting glucose, but that can be often difficult to arrange because you're a new mom, you've been up all night, you might not be able to fast and attend a testing centre. So instead what we often do, and it's much more practical, is to have an assessment done at three months, which is called an HbA1c, and you will have that at that point to see whether that's normal, and then you'll have it repeated again a year after you've delivered and then every year. What you can do to for your own health is to lose weight. Ideally follow the diet that you've adopted during pregnancy and follow that throughout the rest of your life.
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