The conception of the baby occurs on the day you ovulate. The ovulation itself occurs exactly fourteen days before the start of the next period. Since you got pregnant, you missed your period and you will have to do a calculation based on the expected first day of a period in January. Assuming that the duration of your menstrual cycle is 28 days, you should have had your new period started at December 9th. Subtracting 14 days gives us the date of the ovulation: December 26th. Since the egg and the spermatozoids can live up to 48 hours, the conception happened somewhere between December 26th and 28th.


The increased blood sugar in the mother’s body easily transfers via the placenta to the baby, but the insulin does not cross the placenta. Therefore, the baby receives more glucose (blood sugar) than it needs, and the excess is converted into fat. The fat is developed in different parts of the baby’s body leading to macrosomia (larger parts of the body and a larger body as a whole). This baby would more probably need a cesarean section since it might be too big to be delivered naturally. The increased blood sugar might also affect the development of the respiratory system. Therefore, controlling the blood sugar with medication is obligatory. Thus, the effects of the increased blood sugar on the baby will be minimized and the baby can be born with no complications.