Diabetes in pregnancy

Miss Jesse McMicking provides guidance on diabetes in pregnancy and how best to manage women throughout their pregnancy and postnatal period.

The talk highlights the management of pre-existing and gestational diabetes mellitus during pregnancy.

• Understand the epidemiology of diabetes in pregnancy within the UK.
• Recognise screening principles for gestational diabetes mellitus.
• Be able to counsel women and their partners appropriately on the risks in pregnancy of pre-existing and gestational diabetes.
• Overview diet, metformin and use of insulin.
• Be able to support women postnatally who developed Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

Miss Jess McMicking is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and sees patients at Wimpole Street. She specialises in menstrual disorders and benign gynaecology and high-risk obstetrics.

Learn more about Miss Jess McMicking, her clinical interests, research and teaching experience here.