RT Book, Section A1 Cunningham, F. Gary A1 Leveno, Kenneth J. A1 Bloom, Steven L. A1 Dashe, Jodi S. A1 Hoffman, Barbara L. A1 Casey, Brian M. A1 Spong, Catherine Y. SR Print(0) ID 1160786818 T1 Diabetes Mellitus T2 Williams Obstetrics, 25e YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259644320 LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1160786818 RD 2024/10/10 AB Diabetes may exist before the inception of pregnancy, or may not appear until labour. The prognosis is generally believed to be ominous for mother and child, but a review of the literature shows that less than 25 percent of the mothers died from diabetic coma, while premature labour occurred in only one third of the cases.—J. Whitridge Williams (1903)