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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).
Gestational diabetes affects the mother in late pregnancy, after the baby's body has been formed, but while the baby is busy growing. Because of this, gestational diabetes does not cause the kinds of birth defects sometimes seen in babies whose mothers had diabetes before pregnancy.