Anyone diabetic before pregnacy

[Tanikit]

Thats great capel - glad she is doing so well.

I don't think Lantus is dangerous - it just hasn't had formal testing in pregnancy so isn't registered for use during pregnancy but loads of diabetics are on it during pregnancy.

As for monitoring after 38 weeks they never let me go beyond 38 weeks so can't help there - sorry. We had fetal monitoring with a machine at 34 and 36 weeks (NST) but my babies always passed.

 

[vintage67]

I was taken off Lantus for pregnancy, but a women I know who had GD was put on Lantus.

 

[cranberry987]

its probably like most things in pregnancy - they dont have enough information to say that its safe. the older drugs have decades of women being fine on it, but if lantus was by far the best option for you then you might weigh up the pros and cons and take it over something else

 

[lesley1978]

Congratulation Capel on the birth of your daughter! Glad everything went well! x Looking forward to seeing some pics.x

 

[Lincoln Girl]

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

congratulations Capel on the birth of your daughter xx

 

[hawalkden]

hi

I'm a Type One Diabetic on Insulin Pump. I'm 21 weeks preg and all I get to find around her is GD or Type Two Diabetes!! haha

I'm just dealing with the hypos atm!

Good Luck Everyone

XxX

 

[Jaybear5]

Hi ladies hope everyone is well?! X

 

[Tanikit]

Hi hawal - thats why this thread was started I think - most of the beginning is us moaning about hypos - are yours settling yet? How was your first trimester? Do you know if you're having a boy or girl?

 

[cranberry987]

Arg! New to taking insulin and last night I hadn't stuck myself properly. Dh noticed and said press it in. So i pressed the trigger spurting half of it out! Fair enough it was me who did it wrong but stupid man for not telling me. Or stopping me press the trigger. Pft. Men.

 

[shellshocked]

Hi I know this post has been running for a while but wondered if I might join in. Have been diabetic for 20 years now and this is my first pregnancy. Not planned, Hba1c was 7.7mmol at conception, am at the hospital once a fortnight and so far things are okay. Sugars crazy but I expected that. I just wondered if anyone else had had to double their insulin requirements in the first trimester? Consultant told me to just carry on doing what I am doing. Guessing I'll have another Hba1c tomorrow. Hoping its come down. Hypoing every night and at least once during the day. Not sure if I'm tired due to pregnancy or due to constant hypos and weeing during the night!!

Bit nervous but the hospital seem to be keeping a close eye on me already have additional appointments for baby's cardio check in October, anaesthetic appointment in September and about a million others. Starting to feel like I live at the hospital!

Reading all these posts has made me less anxious. Congratulations to you all!

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[pink23]

congrats shellshocked. xx
Yes the hypos and insulin are all part of being preganant.
Its nice to come on here and just have a rant and say what you want to say. Its always nice to speak to another diabetic as only they know what your going through. Im sure your hba1c will come down.
Hope everyones ok. I had a week of good morning sugars now something has changed and they are high yet again. day sugars not too bad. Im starting weight watchers tonight. I really struggle with the weight loss, i do well then A hypo comes along.
Need to see diabetic nurse just to see whats happening and what insulin i need to tweek xx

 

[hawalkden]

Had this horrid dream last night that our baby was going to be a diabetic and i know the risk of it getting it is very low due to their own pancreas; but still made me think i really hope my child doesnt have to go through what i have to every day with the hypos, testing and injecting..

even though my bloods can be still high a little, i do have good control of them and my downfall at the moment is craving for milk and cheese which is high in units and i honestly cried the other day becuase we didnt have any cheese and i couldnt have any but i know if i drink milk throughout the day the insulin units i'm not giving myself isnt good, so trying to cut down a lot :\

hope it works ! Hope everyone is well too

 

[cranberry987]

oh big hugs. I think its natural to have worried dreams. it shows youre a good and thoughtful mummy

 

[hawalkden]

oh big hugs. I think its natural to have worried dreams. it shows youre a good and thoughtful mummy

My OH thinks I'm being selfish and saying it isnt the end of the world if they do have Diabetes.

To me it would be becuase i wouldnt want anyone to live with it every day and struggle at a lot of low points, he says though 'they'll not know any different'

maybe not, but when they are going to school and the staff dont deal with hypos becuase of 'health and safety' also children are very very mean and dont understand they are hurting others with their comments, even from when they start nursery i see it every day children are laughed at becuase of something so small!!!

Trying to think positive and hope for the best but ill love them all the same and just pray that they can have a normal life

 

[cranberry987]

i think its just because you know how hard it can be. I often attend meetings about kids who have "special educational needs" (whatever that means) because of being deaf or deaf with additional needs. I know that the deafness itself wouldnt be too disasterous, but all the extra struggle they would have to go through would break my heart.

Its the same really, they dont know any different but you want their lives to be as easy and super amazing as possible and I think its just a natural mummy worry.

My OH brushes any worries off with 'honey itll be fine' which really doesnt help, these men, can i swap mine for one who talks in proper sentances?!

 

[hawalkden]

the countless arguements we've had over how i feel and he'll never 100% turely understand what i go though, he always brings up though when i went in with DKA and was in a coma for a week, that he understands, which is fair enough but at the same time i had a blood clot in my lung and pnuemonia before they put me in a medical induced coma!
he just uses all the bad days of my diabetes as an excuse that he understand and when i have a bad day now, he'll say think of our baby youre carrying and stop being selfish when you're feeling down which hurts!
hope the over protectedness goes past

 

[shellshocked]

Hawalkden-
It is a tough condition to live with, but we are all living proof that we can live with it. Try to be positive and focus on that. I guess your OH is trying to be supportive with his comments however in reality nobody understands unless they have diabetes. It sucks. If it makes you feel better I lay on the bathroom floor for hours spewing before my OH rang NHS direct and took me to the hospital with DKA a couple of year ago! I had told him it was a virus and I'd be okay he panics now whenever I even sneeze.( I laugh now but looking back... oh dear) But.... at least we know our body in a way that other people don't and that we live in a time where we can still have good (ish) lives. I know you'll have heard all this before but just trying to cheer you up a bit. Chin up you aren't being selfish and we are all worrying about similar things and its okay to feel down sometimes, we are only human afterall.

 

[Tanikit]

Pink hope you can get the morning levels better again - its such a rollercoaster isn't it. I am having hypos at night that DH has had to step in a number of times and help as I am not seeing to the baby properly and she's screaming. He keeps asking me what I will do about it but I have lowered the insulin a few times and am eating better (have also tried eating badly) and nothing consistently helps. My day values are a bit high too cause I tried dropping the evening long acting also.

about the dreams. The chances are pretty small, but its normal to have anxious dreams about baby's health. I'd also feel bad if my girls got diabetes - I'd feel like it was my fault.

So who's baby is due next?

 

[capel]

The only thing if any of my girls got diabetes would be the guilt. I would blame myself for passing it to them... I know it doesn't matter as there is NO type 1 diabetics in my family (plenty of type 2 though). But DD1 is very disabled. In the end diabetes would be the lesser of a problem. The only thing she would not be able to communicate and let anyone know she was hypo. I think I would go crazy with worry. The other one, if she was diabetic, compared with her sister's problems I think it would not be a problem... I have a normal life after all... She would be able to as well.

 

[nemo1]

Hawalkden I used to crave cheese like crazy!! And milk. I'd drink like 2/3 glasses of cold milk a day but I never realised milk afftected sugar so bad? Beware though, people say too much cheese gives you crazy dreams and I used to have a lot!!

Tanikit I think Jaybear's baby is next!!

Hope everyone is doing well healthwise and coping in the heat!! I'm a muslim and it's Ramadan now (fasting) which I can't do due to diabetes but I'm feeling sorry for hubby having to go through it in this weather AND commute on train and tube. Horrible.