Will my chances of getting Diabetes increase after Gestational Diabetes?

As I said, for the mom, later on in life, you are at increased risk of diabetes. So after you've given birth, your GP should do a test, usually something called an HbA1c, six weeks after you've had the baby, and then one year after, and preferably every year because you are at increased risk. What you can do is you can adopt the diet that you have taken on during pregnancy to help you manage your gestational diabetes. And you've done it over a period of time, which is very important because it changes habit. Changing human habit is a very difficult thing to achieve. And it requires time. And this is an advantageous situation, which means you can continue that for the rest of your life and reduce your risk of getting diabetes. But not only that, because if it's associated with weight, then you are also reducing the risks of high blood pressure, liver disease, heart disease, stroke, cancers, dementia, all of these things. Also other things that we're now finding being associated with weight, such as lung disease. So there are all these beneficial effects. We also can achieve good blood glucose control during pregnancy. That can mean use of drugs, tablets such as metformin, very occasionally glibenclamide, but also insulin, which we we use in pregnancy, these are safe, and they achieve good blood glucose control and stop the baby getting too big and all the things that I've prevented, all the things that I've mentioned before.