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High blood sugar can affect you and your unborn baby. Pregnant women with high blood sugar are more likely to: 1  Have a baby with birth defects, if blood sugar is not in control during the first two months of pregnancy (in women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes).
DISCUSSION: The infant is likely to be hypoglycemic. A pregnant mother with uncontrolled gestational diabetes will likely have hyperglycemia. This hyperglycemia stimulates the fetal pancreatic beta-cells to undergo hypertrophy and hyperplasia in order to produce more insulin to help lower blood glucose levels.