Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes 1st (first) edition Text Only

by Cheryl Alkon

Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Cheryl Alkon is a longtime writer, editor and researcher who has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1977. Her blog, Managing the Sweetness Within (www.thesweetnesswithin.blogspot.com) chronicled her efforts to get and stay pregnancy while balancing her diabetes.

"Balancing Pregnancy With Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby" is the first insider's guide about what it is like to do pregnancy with pre-existing diabetes right.

Featuring insight from more than 50 women with pre-existing diabetes, as well as top medical experts, topics covered include preconception planning ("If you can, you gotta plan"), what happens trimester by trimester ("Tests, and bloods and rockin' goals"), nutrition, exercise, insulin, technology talk (insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitors, and more), planning for the big day, the big day, and early parenthood with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. An appendix covers the specifics of infertility and pregnancy loss as well.

Cheryl has been published in the New York Times, Boston, Body+Soul, More, Woman's Day and other print and online media. She and her family live in Massachusetts.

For more information, see her website at www.CherylAlkon.com."