Diabetes management

Re diabetic women’s experience of pregnancy and motherhood, individual stories “were also shaped by larger aspects of the system of health care and how it changed over time. One such larger aspect was technological innovation, which yielded what can only be thought of as ‘miraculous’ success in improving the health outcomes for mothers and their babies. The questions posed by Priscilla White on behalf of young adult women living with diabetes in 1948 – will I be able to conceive, survive my pregnancy, and deliver a healthy child who will be unlikely to develop diabetes? – had grown relatively outdated by the 1990s” (Feudtner, 166-167).