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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).
A serious illness in the mother, such as an under-active thyroid, or diabetes mellitus, in which her body cannot process sugar, also can cause birth defects in the child. In fact, in 2003, it was shown that babies of diabetic mothers are five times as likely to have structural heart defects as other babies.