A new study shows the rate of Diabetes in reproductive-age women doubled in the span of just six years.

Grace Montoya is just weeks away from having her second child. She’s excited, but she's also worried.

That’s because Diabetes increases a pregnant woman's risk for having miscarriages, stillbirths and babies with birth defects.

And now, a new study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente shows a disturbing trend: From 1999 to 2005 the proportion of women giving birth that already had diabetes before they were pregnant doubled.

Kaiser researchers attribute that doubling of Diabetes rates primarily to the rise in obesity - especially among minority women.

The news is disheartening for Montoya. She had no control over her Type-1 Diabetes, but she knows so many women at risk for Type-2 can save themselves a world of future worry, just by exercising and eating right.