Diabetes during pregnancy can lead to fetal malformation, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, neonatal death, macrosomia and intrauterine growth retardation. Risks for the mother include severe hypoglycaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, progression of eye or renal disease, preeclampsia and caesarean section.

Risks for type ii diabetes are even higher than type i.

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Pregnant or not, diabetes can cause a lot of problems. It has the ability to complicate illnesses like heart disease. this is why a healthy and balanced diet is important whether or not you are or are not pregnant. Pregnant women can also get gestational diabetes which is dangerous for the baby and mom.

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I agree with Kimberly. We should all be careful what we eat because diabetes is a serious disease not just for women but for men too.

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Diabetes has great effect on male reproductive function. Men with diabetes can have an impaired delivery of sperm from the penis to the vagina that may be the cause of his infertility.

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As far as I know this diabetes can cause infertility for both men and women, much more to the undiagnosed! But if you are determined to be cured from this illness then live a healthy lifestyle.

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It is living in an healthy lifestyle that we may prevent of having diabetes but if it has in your relative who has this kind of illness, then make some moves to block this kind of disease towards your body. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure!, as a saying goes.

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Aside from the danger to infertility, diabetes medication can actually affect libido. There are medications out there that can cause low sex drive. It's just a side effect but it can hamper your sex life and the whole baby making process.

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