Hi!
I'm Kylee, and I'm new here, just got diagnosed with T1 last June (I'm 23). I'm currently on 1:10 of Regular and 22u of Levemir at night. My last A1C was 5.8 (they initially diagnosed me as T2, when my A1C was 7.1... when I got my diagnosis of T1 4 months later it was 11.4... ugh!). So far my A1C's have been 5.8, 6.3 in December, 5.8 in January, and I'm due for another in a week.
I'm 16w3d pregnant, due at the end of August in the blistering heat of Phoenix.
My question for those of you who are/were pregnant and pumping is, if you started pumping during pregnancy, how many weeks were you?
I've finally come around to the idea of pumping and have been researching but can't seem to find if there is a "cutoff" week for starting pump therapy. My endo is kinda ol' school and hasn't breathed a word about pumping to me, so he has a big talk in store for him next week, but I have a little nagging fear that he's going to say, "No, you're past x weeks so you can't start." I am so dead set on starting pumping it's not even funny so I want to have my ducks in a row and be able to convince him.
This is a big thing for me because, apart from baby's health, I am a labor and delivery nurse and a student certified nurse-midwife and I am a big natural birth advocate, so if I can keep myself and the bub healthy enough to avoid induction and other interventions/issues I would be a happy girl.
The other reason I was wondering about some sort of cutoff is because I called MiniMed to ask them about the whole process were I to go with the Paradigm, and the lady kinda hesitated when I told her how many weeks I was and said she might have to talk to her clinician because it might be past recommend time. Which is sort of goofy... because I'm pretty sure my endo's decision outweighs the pump company's decision.
Well that's about it from me; thanks for any info you may have. I will now return to waffling over which pump to choose! I was thinking about the Paradigm because of the continuous glucose monitor but now I think it doesn't sound all that great since it's interstitial and fingersticks are still required... so now I kinda want a pump that has the meter attached so I have less to carry around!
