Binging and craving sweets during pregnancy is a given. Thanks to the hormonal changes that especially affect your normal food preferences. And now that you have access to all those food items, to control could be a problem.

"Anything in excess is bad, especially sweets," says Gynaecological Counsellor Dr. Mugdha Raut.

And it becomes even more necessary to control your cravings by eating healthy because what you eat affects you child too.

So what can happen if you happen to cross the line of excess?

Apart from obesity and weight gain, binge eating can also cause health problems like:

• Depression

Excessive salt or sweet can alter your hormones and make you feel depressed and anxious, and even bring in insomnia. Pregnancy, in any case brings with it bouts of depression.

And eating the wrong food can eventually aggravate the situation rather than ease it.

• Gestational Diabetes

Are you crazy about the ladoos and shakarpalis and kheer? Well before you go completely ballistic over the sweets, make sure that you don't have a family history of diabetes or are diabetic yourself.

Why? Overindulging in sweets during pregnancy can make you prone to gestational diabetes.

• Loose Motion

Apart from eating unhygienic food, the loosies can also happen due to indigestion. There is a grave probability that binging on sweets from shops can cause you indigestion.