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Expressing milk before birth more than doubled exclusive breastfeeding after gestational diabetes
Babies of mothers with gestational diabetes often get formula in the first hours for low blood sugar, and breastfeeding rarely recovers. Collecting milk before the birth changed how many were still feeding weeks later.
Sep 6, 2026
Children exposed to diabetes in the womb developed it five times as often
Gestational diabetes is described as ending at delivery. Following 2.85 million children to a median age of 16, exposure before birth tracked far higher diabetes rates, and control around conception shifted the odds.
Sep 6, 2026
One protein at 12 weeks stood out from 2,904 as a signal of later preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is usually caught late, when the only treatment is delivery. Screening nearly 3,000 proteins in first-trimester blood produced one clear front-runner, and laboratory work suggests it is not just a marker.
Sep 4, 2026
Supervised exercise in pregnancy cut gestational diabetes risk by a quarter across 19 trials
A British Journal of Sports Medicine meta-analysis pooled 19 randomized trials and 6,213 pregnancies. Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, excessive weight gain and large babies all fell, on moderate-certainty evidence.
Aug 28, 2026