High blood glucose, also called blood sugar, can harm your baby during the first weeks of pregnancy, even before you know you are pregnant. If you have diabetes and are already pregnant, see your doctor as soon as possible to make a plan to manage your diabetes.
These are the only veins in the body that carry fresh, oxygenated blood. Blood leaves the heart from the left ventricle through the artery called the aorta. The aorta has several branches into other arteries that are carrying blood away from the heart and to the body tissues.
Six large veins carry blood to the heart: the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava carry blood from the body to the right atrium, and four pulmonary veins carry blood fro â¦ m the lungs to the left atrium. Two arteries, the pulmonary trunk and the aorta, exit the heart. The Vena Cava carrys de oxygenated blood that is returning from the body and into the right atruim of the heart and the Aorta is the largest artery of the body which tr â¦ ansports oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.