Olivia Bitter started planning her pregnancy just after her wedding. It took her longer than the pregnancy itself. “I spent a year planning to understand what I needed to do,” says Bitter, who has type 1 diabetes. The process involved talking with her endocrinologist, searching for an obstetrician who specialized in high-risk pregnancies, and optimizing the way she checked and controlled her blood glucose levels. Read more
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