Balancing Pregnancy With Pre-Existing Diabetes - C. Alkon (Demos, 2010) WW

270 Pages·2010·1.31 MB·English

Balancing Pregnancy with
Pre-Existing Diabetes

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Balancing Pregnancy with
Pre-Existing Diabetes
Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby

Cheryl Alkon

New York

Acquisitions Editor: Noreen Henson
Cover Design: Carlos Maldonado
Compositor: Newgen North America
Printer: Hamilton Printing

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Alkon, Cheryl.
Balancing pregnancy with pre-existing diabetes : healthy mom, healthy baby /
Cheryl Alkon.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-932603-32-3
1. Diabetes in pregnancy—Popular works. I. Title.
RG580.D5A45 2010
618.3—dc22 2009053469

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