Rashmi Sharma had gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with each of her two children. However, on both occasions, the diabetes receded after she gave birth. Her second child was six years old when a then-33-year-old Rashmi discovered she had type 2 during a routine blood sugar test. ‘It’s in my family,’ says Rashmi, who was put on medication immediately after her diagnosis. ‘My mother had diabetes, all my aunts had diabetes. But I had a very blasé attitude towards it. When my husband
