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About three to five percent of all pregnant women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes usually developsbetween 20 to 24 weeks, and is caused by the changes in hormones in your body during pregnancy. In most women, the pancreas is able to make additional insulin tocombat this insulin resistance. When the pancreas makes all the insulin it can, and there still isn’t enough tofight the effect of the placenta’s hormones, gestational diabetes results.