[shot caller]

thanks for the posts. aside of your offspring getting diabetes, is there anything else to watch out for, ie complications. read somewhere that control of bg levels is vital to enusre that the baby is healthy. plus, do the bg levels fluctuate more coz of the hormonal changes so hypos and hypers can become more frequent. once again, thanks to everyone who replied.

[Georgia]

Yes it is vital to have good control before conception because it is during the first 12 weeks that the baby is developing & that is when abnormalities can occur. You should also take a higher amount of folic acid than non-diabetic women (in the UK it is 5mg) because diabetics have a higher chance of having a baby with neural tube defects. Preferably the folic acid should be started 3 months before you conceive.

It is a bit of a rollercoaster with blood sugars when you are pregnant. Many women find their blood sugars increase before they find out they are pregnant (mine didn't though!) & it is generally around the 8 week gestation stage when you really need to watch out for the horrible lows. They can come on fast!! And you can lose your hypo awareness too. As you reach the 3rd trimester that is when many women start to become insulin resistant - I'm 28 1/2 weeks & I think I am on the verge of hitting insulin resistance (boo!).

It's all good though - you just need to test loads & change your I:C ratios accordingly.

[sherm]

Hello I am actually not responding to the previous thread, but I had a question! I am new to this and this is actually my first posting. I just have a question for ya'll!
SO I am a type 1 Diabetic and I am now 8 months pregnant! I am on an insulin pump and it has gone well for the most part, but in my last trimester my sugars have gone high( of coarse), but right now I have been low for just a couple of days.
Its very unusual right now for me since I have been normal to high the last few weeks.
I have heard that low blood sugars could be a sign of labour, or more to the point pre- labour.....did anyone have any unusual symptons like this before they went into labour?

Thanks for your help!

[pamalamadingdon]

I think it is also important to note that due to the pregnancy insulin becomes more and more ineffective, in most cases the levels of insulin needed to keep a A1C in the 5 range will double or triple by the end of the pregnancy. I know mine tripled and I was taking almost 15 or 20 units of humalog per meal in my 8 and 9 months instead of my normal 3 or 4!! Of course, as soon as the baby delivers the bg goes back to normal. My doctor even took my insulin IV out after the delivery and let me be insulin free for hours until my sugar started getting high and then we started insulin levels from scratch. Also, since insulin is the hormone it is, and it takes so much to maintain control in the pregnancy it will make you gain more weight than a normal person. I gained 50 lbs, I'm sure some of it was do to my excessive Captain D's intake. Anyway just putting in some info

[juliateclark]

I haven’t missed my period; my period is still a week and half away. I want to be pregnant. This is gross but I have a discharge that is really sticky and almost looks like snot. I've never really had a discharge of any kind so this is a noticeable change. I wake up in the morning with a painful urge to pee, and when I go, I pee forever. It doesn’t hurt when I pee, just if I don’t get there quick I won’t make it. I've never had to pee this much before. None of my friends have been pregnant yet. I just look for some answers and any advice.

[jacobsam622]

Originally Posted by shot caller

Any pregnancy stories out there? would be great if you could share your experiences so that would be-moms (and eager would-be dads) can benefit from this? Question: Is a C-section more complicated in case you have D in terms of the stiches healing up? I have a friend who's so small built (and type 1) that I can;t imagine her delivering a kid the normal way.

In february of 2004 We found out my wife was pregnant a couple weeks later she driving down the road and some nitwit hits her on the driver side of the car, both mother and baby come though with no injuries. At 20 weeks we find out my wife is pregnant with twins had to to cancel cruise to Bermuda. Doctor told us not to leave town. At 21 weeks we find out I have diabetes while in the hospital for kidney stones. At 34 weeks my wife has her appendix removed and finally at 37 weeks my wife gives birth to twin boys other then that the pregnancy was normal