ABSTRACT

Infant nutrition begins in the mother’s womb. Maternal dietary lifestyle during pregnancy can have a signicant impact on the mother and child’s health. Studies have shown that dietary preferences for individuals develop early in life and children’s dietary preferences are inuenced by their mother’s [1,2]. Studies have shown that children of obese mothers are already predisposed to obesity because their bloods are overloaded with preobesity factors [3-5]. Studies have also shown that diabetic mothers are at high risk of giving birth to children with higher systolic blood pressure than children from nondiabetics mothers [6,7]. Less than half of women with type 2 diabetes plan their pregnancy and only about half of type 1 diabetic women plan their pregnancy making periconceptional glycemic control difcult [8]. When the glycemic control is poor, the health risks for both the diabetic mother and the child are very high [9].