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Summary: Children born to mothers with pregnancy-related diabetes run twice the risk of language development problems, according to a research team directed by Professor Ginette Dionne of Université Laval's School of Psychology. Details of this discovery are published in the most recent issue of the scientific journal Pediatrics. Results showed that children born to mothers with gestational diabetes achieve poorer scores on tests of spoken vocabulary and grammar than children of healthy mothers. The study shows that these effects persist even after the children start school. This study is the first to isolate the effect of gestational diabetes from other factors including family socioeconomic status, alcohol and tobacco consumption as well as maternal hypertension during pregnancy. However, the study suggests that the impact of pregnancy-related diabetes on language development is not inevitable, as children of more educated mothers appear less affected. Between 2% and 14% of children are born to mothers who suffer from gestational diabetes. Risk factors for this complication during pregnancy include the mother's age and her body mass index. In addition to Ginette Dionne, the study was coauthored by Michel Boivin, Jean R. Séguin, Daniel Pérusse, and Richard E. Tremblay.

Reaction: This article tells us that increase sugar level during pregnancy can be a risk factor for the Baby to become delay in learning the language of their place. This study said also that mothers who have a history of gestational diabetes will affect the baby as he or she grows old. On this kind of article I disagree of what they said. If your mother is a very good mother good in both psychological and mental support and the best educators of all mothers so there is no reason to say that children born with the mother having a history of gestational diabetes will be achieve poorer scores on tests of spoken vocabulary and grammar than children of healthy mothers. Maybe it is on the genes that affect the vocabulary learning of the children.

.Bibliography: Ginette Dionne et. Health News Magazine. London: Oxford University Press, 2006

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A Reading ON Pregnancy Diabetes Doubles Risk Of Language Delay In Children

Submitted by: Neil Ian E. Barco

Submitted to: Charlene T. Tumanda R.N.

January 30 2009