Gestational diabetes

Gestational diabetes can occur during pregnancy when the mother's body doesn't produce enough insulin, or becomes resistant to insulin. In this Children's Channel video, Stacey Ehrenberg Buchner, MD, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Akron Children's, discusses the symptoms and diagnosis of this highly-treatable disease.

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