Type 1 (T1) and type 2 (T2) diabetes can negatively impact both your cycles and your fertility, but did you know that fertility awareness can help you manage both? Furthermore, gestational diabetes (GD) can have a huge impact on pregnancy outcomes, but a GD diagnosis can be an opportunity to eat better now for improved health during pregnancy and in the future. Here, we’ve compiled content on these conditions, and how they relate to menstrual cycles, fertility, and pregnancy.
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Natural Womanhood Book Review: Real Food for Gestational Diabetes
By Madison Ayers • May 25, 2024Should you buy, borrow, or pass? -
10 tips for your healthiest pregnancy with Type 2 Diabetes
By Caitlin Estes • May 14, 2024You can do this! -
Can diabetes keep you from getting pregnant?
By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN • May 2, 2024How Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes affect your fertility -
How cycle charting can help your teen reverse prediabetes
By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN • March 21, 2024Blood sugar levels change over the course of the cycle -
Menstrual cycle tracking can help teen girls with Type 1 diabetes better manage their insulin. Here’s how.
By Christina Valenzuela • February 22, 2024Cycle charting isn’t just for family planning. -
Should your daughter with Type 1 diabetes go on birth control?
By Christina Valenzuela • February 22, 2024How blood sugar needs shift over the course of the cycle -
How My Fertility Charts Help Me Customize My Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
By Ginie Kay • June 12, 2019All women experience metabolic changes during their menstrual cycle that a healthy body manages unnoticed. These changes include… -
How Fertility Awareness Can Help Women with Type 1 Diabetes
By Ginie Kay • September 1, 2018Most people familiar with fertility awareness know how charting one’s cycle can help monitor and improve health issues… -
How Type 2 diabetes can affect your sex life
By Elizabeth Wescott, PhD • November 21, 2024And what to do about it -
Does high blood pressure increase your chance of uterine fibroids?
By Elizabeth Wescott, PhD • September 21, 2024What we do and don’t know