Pregnant Halle Belly Admits Feeling Fantastic, Medical Experts Cautious with Health Issues Due to Her Age and Diabetes [PHOTOS]
Actress Halle Berry recently revealed in her first interview with CNN after the pregnancy news broke out that she is feeling fantastic. However, medical experts are cautious with certain health issues for both Halle Berry and the baby due to her age of 46 and the battle with diabetes.
"I feel fantastic!" the Academy Award-winning actress exclaimed to CNN's Alina Cho. "This has been the biggest surprise of my life, to tell you the truth. Thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it's been a big surprise and the most wonderful," Berry further shared.
The baby will be Halle Berry's second child with fiancé Olivier Martinez. The Hollywood actress has a 5-year-old daughter named Nahla with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, a Canadian model.
During the interview, Halle Berry discussed her awareness that pregnant women must properly feed themselves in order to nurture their unborn child. "The first 1,000 days is fundamental. Good nutrition during that time period is fundamental for your baby to develop properly and normally," Berry declared.
Medical experts will definitely agree with what Halle Berry said. "Any pregnancy after age 35 is considered risky," Martin Chavez, a physician and chief of the Maternal Fetal Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York stated.
An older pregnant woman has the higher chance of having "chromosomal changes" that could cause serious health conditions such as Down syndrome and heart problems. For Halle Berry, her diabetic condition can pose other health risks.
"Mothers need to control their glucose levels or their babies can be born larger. That can pose problems at birth,'' explained Ranit Mishori, a physician and an associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown University Hospital.
The other diabetic health risks include the possibility of miscarriage or stillbirths but experts claim it usually occurs when the patient does not sufficiently manage the disease.
"We're assuming with Halle Berry that she'll have top medical care and good nutrition. In that case everything could be fine for her and her baby. It sounds like she's doing a good job monitoring her diabetes," Mishori stated.
