Eowyn_Vala

I have a friend who is 21 and 6 months pregnant. She was diagnosed with diabetes she was around 12 years old. She has always been bad about watching her glucose levels and eats lots of sugar. Her solution is to take insulin when she eats sugar. In the beginning of her pregnancy she was smoking and I know she drank a bit. She has quite smoking mostly, only one every now and then. From what I know she doesn't drink anymore and hasn't for a few months. But she still does a terrible job of watching her glucose levels. She's gone so low a few times that she woouln't wake up in the morning and her mom or a friend had to force feed her sugary foods, or call an ambulance. She's also gone really high recently to where she says the baby isn't moving around anymore, she'll test, be really high, take insulin and soon the baby is moving again. I am really worried about her. She doesn't seem to realized how serious this is.

I guess what I want to know is exactly how serious is this? What problems could this cause for her or her baby? Most of the time when she's really low or high she just takes insulin and shrugs it off thinking it won't be that bad. I try to get her to stay away from sugary foods, but I don't feel comfortable giving her advice. I'm not her mom. I don't have diabetes. And I don't know exactly what could go wrong just the general knowledge that it isn't good for her. I don't feel like I should lecture her. But I do think she needs someone to sit her down and talk to her about this. What should I do?

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