If you have gestational diabetes while pregnant, does the risk of developing type 2 diabetes increase with each pregnancy that you have gdm?

Risk increases: Women who have had gestational diabetes are seven times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than women who have not had gestational diabetes.

Yes: Women with gestational diabetes have about a 40-50% chance of developing overt diabetes within the next 20 years. Also, women have a 40% chance of having gestational diabetes again during their next pregnancy.