Gestational Diabetes
Mother's metabolism affects spontaneous fetal movement
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 27th, 2003
According to a study from the United States, "Spontaneous fetal movement in the last third of human gestation is dominated by irregular oscillations on a scale of minutes (cyclic motility, CM). The core properties of these oscillations are stable during the third trimester of gestation in normal fetuses, but disrupted by poorly controlled maternal diabetes. Here we investigated whether fetal CM is linked to short-term instabilities in maternal glucose metabolism."
"The fetuses of 40 mothers with type 1 (n=28) or gestational (n=12) diabetes were-studied one to six times between 27 and 40 postmenstrual weeks of gestation," reported Steven S. Robertson at Cornell...
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