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Pregnant women often cry in my office this time of year. Holidays approaching, a new bundle of joy on the way... and the news that they now have diabetes... make visions of eating sugarplums for two seem like a cruel joke.

The news is not all bad, however. Gestational diabetes -- abnormally high levels of blood sugar (glucose) first identified during pregnancy -- can usually be controlled with reasonable changes in diet and exercise. Some women also require oral medications or injections of insulin during their pregnancy.

Why worry about high blood sugars during pregnancy? Moms and babies face serious complications when blood sugars get too high during gestation. Babies born to moms with uncontrolled diabetes can be too small or too large -- less than 5 pounds or more than 9 pounds -- at birth.

IT falls to dietician Sara McKittrick to set a healthy eating plan for women diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
She regulates their foods for healthy eating, dividing a pre-determined amount of carbohydrates and calories between several small meals each day.
"Most of them can be controlled by monitoring the amount of food that they eat at any one time," Mrs. McKittrick said. "Most of the women are already having snacks but if they're not, you're trying to split the carbohydrate load of one meal between four to six smaller meals.
"What you don't want is to have a particularly high rise in their blood sugars after one particular meal. Instead of having them eat a bowl of cereal and two slices of toast in the morning, I'd rather they just had their cereal and then had a slice of toast as their snack.

Fluffy white icing covered 23 chocolate cupcakes, but the 24th was bare. When the top came off the Tupperware container at a kindergarten birthday party, Dawn Sparks feared the lonely, naked cupcake was for her daughter, Kennedy.