thread for parents with diabetic children

[busybee20]

I thought i would start this thread as my little princess has just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Our world has turned upside down overnight. Carb counting, finger pricking and injecting insulin has become our life now. I still cannot believe how literally overnight things have changed.

Tidy - so sorry that your son developed diabetes at such a young age, i too have a toddler and can imagine how hard it must have been for you. It's wonderful to read that your son aand all the other children that are mentioned here, are doing well in their education etc. Gives me hope as DD was doing so well at school and I don't want anything to hold her back. Yes you are right I need to find some local parents, MN is great but I think its important for DD to meet others likeherself. She's already asked "mummy why am I the only child in my school with Diabetes?"

i have a 18 year old diagnosed at 15 months and a 15 year old diagnosed at 11
love to talk more
i will be back
sleep beckoning
i need support
please someone pm me regards teenage non compliance

11 meaning age 11 years btw

www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/
this is a good forum by the way

My DD is 9 and type 1 diabetic - she developed it when she was 4 after developing severe ketoacidosis which the doctors kept misdiagnosing! She's doing very well on multiple injections: novo rapid and levemir. Currently a TA is doing her lunchtime injection. Like others I make a packed lunch for her with a post-it-note with the carbs written on. Try to make life simpler by repeating meals where possible - she eats the same packed lunch everyday for a week and then it changes to something else the following week. I hate anything that doesn't have the carb amount on it and have to spend time googling, weighing and calculating. I still get very emotional about her condition and hope that there will be a cure one day (soon). Most diabetics (type 1) grow up to be diet conscious individuals and generally do better than type 2s. When she's older I'm going to encourage her to eat low carb.

Hi diamond, scary to hear about doctors misdiagnosing your DD. I guess that's one thing I will be grateful for to my G.P. If it wasn't for his prompt decision to send us to A+E, hate to think what would have happened.
At the moment DD b.g levels are all over the place. One minute it's high the next it'e border line hypo.

Today my DD had her second hypo since diagnosis. It was horrible to see my baby look so weak. She went down to 3.6. I gave her 100ml of ribena. Then waited and gave her a snack which was due. It took about an hour before she was back to her normal self again. As a mother I feel so helpless that I can't do anything about this horrid illness.. :(