Infants of Diabetic Mothers

Abstract

INCREASED understanding of the various problems of infants of diabetic mothers has led to improved clinical management and a corresponding reduction in neonatal mortality.^{1 , 2} Still, complications in the neonatal period occur in approximately 50 per cent of insulin-dependent and 10 to 20 per cent of infants of gestational diabetic women. Furthermore, intrauterine deaths are more frequent than in infants of normal mothers. Infants of prediabetic women encounter similar problems, but to a lesser degree.Clinical ManifestationsDespite their size, generally "large for date," infants of diabetic mothers are physiologically "immature for date." They need not, in fact, be large; diabetic . . .