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The infant of a mother with gestational diabetes (IDM) is a newborn with high neurological risk and can not ensure an evolutionary pattern in his neurodevelopment; therefore, he must be monitored during the first years of life. The objective of this research is to describe the neurodevelopment of infants of mothers with gestational diabetes at 1 -6 years of age born in the National Institute of Perinatology, through a retrospective longitudinal study. The sample consisted of 46 participants; 17 boys and 29 girls, children of mothers with gestational diabetes born between 2000 and 2010, who were assessed with the Bayley II Development Scale at the first and second years of life and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 4 th ed. at the 3 rd , 4.5 and 6 years. The results show that IDM have a slight delay in the Psychomotor Developmental Index in the first two years that does not affect scores in the Intellectual Quotient at 3-6 years, obtaining scores within the normal range.