⚠️ What Happens If You Don’t Treat Gestational Diabetes?
May 21, 2025
Dr. Alan Lindemann (Rural Doc Alan) explains:
❗ Your body can’t make enough insulin, causing high blood sugar levels.
🚨 Risks include:
👶 Large baby
⚡ Preeclampsia
🚑 Shoulder dystocia
💔 Stillbirth (36–40 weeks)
📊 And 50% of women with gestational diabetes will develop Type 2 diabetes later.
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Dr. Alan Lindemann is an obstetrician with 4 decades of medical practice primarily in North Dakota. He has delivered around 6,000 babies and achieved a maternal mortality rate of zero!
Dr. Lindemann has made it his mission to teach women and their families how to create the outcomes they want for their own health and pregnancy. Dr. Lindemann earned his medical degree from the University of North Dakota in 1977, is boarded by the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons and is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association. He is the co-author of Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know, a consumer action guide about how to navigate the United States healthcare system.
Get Alan's newest book, Pregnancy Your Way: Choose A Safe And Happy Birth: https://a.co/d/69SrHca
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