>Marie,
>Your post implied that Type II IDDM risk is NOT elevated in gestational
>diabetics who subsequently breastfeed.  Is this what you meant to say?  Please
>share this information, it's the first I have heard of it, currently have a
>mom with gestational diabetes who is planning to bf anyway...  I thought
>gestational diabetes was always a risk factor for Type II DM.
>Thanks,
>Catherine Watson GEnna, IBCLC


Hi everyone,

I was a Diabetes Nurse Educator a couple years back and I'm really confused
by the original message.
Marie,  can you expand a little bit?

Vickie Boechler RN BScN IBCLC
from Spruce Grove Alberta
(I'm under my husband's e mail address and I am very new to the net)