California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program Fact Sheet

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Goals

Improve pregnancy outcomes for high-risk pregnant women who have diabetes or who develop diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes)
Reduce fetal deaths and neonatal and maternal complications due to diabetes.

Diabetes is a complication for 3-14 percent of women during pregnancy.
Pregnant women with diabetes are at high risk for maternal complications and their infants are at risk for congenital malformations or stillbirth.
Appropriate prenatal care and diabetes control can reduce or prevent these problems for pregnant women and their infants.

California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program (CDAPP) consultants develop, update and disseminate Sweet Success: Guideline for Care which provides standards of practice for diabetes and pregnancy.
CDAPP consultants recruit, educate, consult and provide technical assistance to Sweet Success Affiliates who provide clinical care to pregnant women with diabetes. Clinical care includes comprehensive individualized services such as outpatient health education, nutrition, psychosocial and medical services to pre-pregnant and pregnant women with diabetes.
Develop professional and patient education services, materials and resources including The Guidelines for Care, which are ethnic/language specific materials for high-risk populations and the web site.
Develop appropriate cultural and ethnic services for the diverse California Population to promote awareness of the importance of preconception care for women with pre-existing diabetes.
Collaborate with the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program, (CPSP), the California Diabetes Program (CDP) and other appropriate networks.

3-14 percent of California women who have diabetes during pregnancy, and their infants.
Cost savings to all Californians since every $1.00 spent on the program saves over $5.00 in other costs.

Sweet Success Affiliates; physicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers, and other health care professionals. To locate assistance in your area, please see our CDAPP Regional Map with Affiliate Directory. The state MCAH, currently through Regional Perinatal Programs of California Regions 5 and 6 and beginning July 2008, Region 8, provides access to participation in Birth and Beyond California.

Federal Title V MCH Block Grant Funds. Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Program administers CDAPP. Please the CDAPP Program, for more information.