Diabetes management enables successful pregnancies and healthy births

Women living with diabetes can achieve successful pregnancies and deliver healthy babies through careful monitoring, specialist care, and dedicated treatment. Despite long-standing fears and misconceptions regarding fertility and childbirth, insights from reproductive health and endocrinology experts suggest that complications can be managed effectively with personal determination and medical oversight.

The personal journey of Nkiruka Okoro, now a healthcare professional, highlights the challenges of living with the condition. Her diagnosis followed a childhood incident in 1988 where she experienced extreme thirst and weakness, eventually leading to a coma and referral to the Jos University Teaching Hospital.