Anyone diabetic before pregnacy

[cranberry987]

exciting news capel

 

[Tanikit]

Welcome cranberry!

Capel glad you will have your baby with you soon - so exciting!

 

[cranberry987]

well seems i spoke too soon. morning levels been high three days in a row. called the dns and im going in for insulin teaching tmw. poo. im fine with it, just annoying.

 

[Jaybear5]

Eeeek how exciting xx

 

[capel]

Sakura was born today and she is perfect. All was well and she already had her first feed. She is doing fine and no hypos up to now

 

[cranberry987]

lovely news glad youre both well.

 

[cranberry987]

Just got back from dsn and starting insulin at nights now, I think i need them during the day too tbh but will build up to it. ive limited my carbs far too much now to keep the lvls in check and this morning i had a croissant (which I called wholemeal toast) as an experiment and it went up to 9.7!

got a new bg tester which uses like preloaded things so i wont have to leave sharps and blood covered test strips all over somerset now ^^ (I rely on my handbag as dont have an office, cant rly carry a sharps box round in that so have been using bins, oops)

 

[Tanikit]

Congrats capel - glad to hear everything is going well. What did she weigh?

Cranberry glad you are getting help and hopefully things will be sorted out soon. Good luck with the injecting.

 

[cupcake]

sorry I am hijacking, I am not diabetic , I did have GD in my first pregnancy, and suspected in my second, my mom is a type 1 insulin dep diabetic on shots, my husband is a type 1 on a pump, so I sort of am allowed in right?
anyway was wondering how many of u ladies drink diet drinks, we don't have any sugar drinks so we drink quite a bit of diet, and I am sure its not great seen as though I nurse, but I wonder how bad it really is? any thoughts?

 

[pink23]

congrats capel xx
Cupcake- I wouldnt think diet drinks are bad, i just think you have to watch the amount of it you have becaue some have that sweetner in which has laxative effects from drinking too much xx

 

[cranberry987]

I know people say there's some health issue with sweetener but it's not even on my radar tbh. Unless you drink loads per day I doubt you're taking that much in from one or two drinks. I mostly drink water anyway.

 

[Jaybear5]

Awww congratulations Capel

I drink plenty of diet drinks! I'm a diet cole addict I think! lol

 

[Tanikit]

They say that aspartame in all diet cooldrinks is bad for you and can cause all sorts of symptoms. I have lived on diet cooldrinks and all sorts of other products with aspartame in since I got diabetes 20 years ago and I don't think I have had any of the supposed symptoms. I did try to limit my diet cooldrink intake while pregnant mostly cause of the caffeine in most of the ones I drink.

 

[nemo1]

Oh congrats Capel!! Hope you and Sakura are doing well!! Lovely name, what's the origin of the name? I hope you're both doing great and your sugars are in control!

I drink diet coke every now and then. Not all the time. Tbh drank more during lunch when I was working (waayyy more during pregnancy!).

 

[pink23]

like tanikit said its more the caffeine than anything xx

 

[cranberry987]

Has anyone had a fetal wellbeing check after 38w? Ive asked my dr about it as I just want to know what it would involve so I can get a mental picture of it. She refused to tell me, bear in mind this is a consultant so I just dont believe that she doesnt know, she said she had no idea as they never do them (complete bullcrap). All I want to know is if its done in the usual place they do scans or a special place, how often they do it, stuff like that.

Anyone able to paint me a picture about what the monitoring is like?

 

[daisy_dee]

Can't remember the exact units of insulin but in 3rd tri I took LOADS. I remember lunch was 40 to 50 units. Lantus 22 and can't remember the rest but I sometimes finished a cartridge in 3 days!!

My doc would not let me take Lantus while I was pregnant as she said it wasn't safe..I was put on Humilin N.

I'm on Lantus too - and that's the first I heard that it was unsafe! I think I might give my GP a call on Monday.

 

[dkjazz]

Hang in there - I found weeks 18-24 the easiest this pregnancy and weeks 13 and 14 were about the worst with the lows. Just keep testing - you can always bolus a little insulin if you go high. I lived on sweets the first trimester and had my work very well trained

 

[capel]

Has anyone had a fetal wellbeing check after 38w? Ive asked my dr about it as I just want to know what it would involve so I can get a mental picture of it. She refused to tell me, bear in mind this is a consultant so I just dont believe that she doesnt know, she said she had no idea as they never do them (complete bullcrap). All I want to know is if its done in the usual place they do scans or a special place, how often they do it, stuff like that.

Anyone able to paint me a picture about what the monitoring is like?

I had these checks from 37+5 and that's why I had her before. It's only ctg, they put a sensor in your tummy that records feral heart beat. If there is a problem they send tou for a scan. She kept failing them, sowe had a section yesterday.

And I just realised that autocorrect changed her name. I is Samira not Sakura... And dh chose it.

 

[capel]

Oh and she was 3kg410g or 7lb 8oz Nd 50cm long.So perfect size. And NO hypos, her level were 3.7 all readings before feed. The midwife even tested the meter on herself to see if it was broken and only showed 3.7