[The infant of the diabetic mother. A current reevaluation (author's transl)]

In the past fifteen years several aspects of the diabetogenic fetopathia have changed. Tight metabolic control during pregnancy approaching normoglycemia was followed by a continuous decline in perinatal mortality. However, the evaluation of pregnancy outcome beyond statistical analyses still reveals some pertinent questions: They state to the increased incidence of congenital malformations, the pre- and postnatal diagnosis of significant gestational diabetes, the heterogeneity of impaired intrauterine growth and development and the late outcome of these children.