[Lizzie G]

Hi

Im thinking of having children in the next couple of years. I got chatting with a friend at the weekend and she told me some things that really alarmed me. Firstly, that in the UK all diabetic mothers (type 1) are induced and not 'allowed' to go full term. Secondly that there is an obsession with babies born to diabetic mums having low blood sugar, so her son was taken away from her and bottle fed every 2 hours, kept in an incubator (nothing else wrong with him) for 3 days (let me clarify, the blood sugar was ridiculously low, and she wasnt given a CHANCE to breatfeed, and he was taken away to a room and wasnt told where he was, he was apparently not in bad health at all )so eventually when she got him back he wouldnt take to breast milk. Lastly she was on a drip for insulin and they were letting her run VERY high despite her begging for insulin (BG of 14 or around 250 US units I guess without a calculator to work it)...

Has anyone else heard of any of these hideous barbaric practices (esp in UK)and if so what did you do to go about preventing them? If i keep my BG low in pregnancy i see no reason why I shouldnt go full term in my pregnancies, nor do I see why nursing staff who are not diabetes experts should be in control of my insulin and above all I do not wish for someone else to snatch away my child to be bottle fed before I have the chance to feed him or her. Im so appalled by these things.