Thanks for answering my questions, both of you.
Like TTCing, it's a whole new thing for me (the idea of a pump.) So, to get this straight, it gives you the same as you would have to inject but works it out for you depending on your carbohydrate and also the current blood sugar reading? I do this myself easily enough, so why is pumping easier? (Am asking as I want to know rather than with scepicism!)
Until very recently I have always not cared where I have a jab, and can do it very quickly and easily but have got a bit more hesitant in recent years as I hate the associations with Type 2 (and we all seem to agree on that one!) I did a quick Google last night and I saw that somke pumps also appear to have a glucose monitor attached - is this the case?
I was diagnosed when I was 5 and lived in the middle east - the care I got there was absolutely brilliant (it was British staff but a private and brand new hospital). They taught me about carb counting (exchanges and carbohydates, did you learn that here...?) I used to have a little book where I drew pics of what I had eaten and what it amounted to (pls note, I was 5!) The reason I asked to be put onto Humalog when it came out, or when I heard about it, was because before I was on a 30/70 mix which wasn't great for tight-ish control (especially when going out on the piss!) The Levemir / Humalog combo I am on now works really well and has done for ages, although there is always going to be a degree of room for improvement unless, and I would be more so if I was pg, I was fanatical.
BTW I was on Insultard before but was told by the diabetic nurse (the good one, the one at the hospital) that there was a very small chance that it was associated with cancer in the babies of diabetic patients, hence I changed over to Levemire (much to the GP's disgust as apparently it costs more.)
As re your birth drama's Ilovekitty I too would not want to be induced etc etc just as I am diabetic. If there was a genuine medical reason, then of course I would, but I would question every suggestion. This is why I am adverse to the drips in the hand scenario. I can see why it works quicker, the glucose and the insulin, when via a vein but it's not like either the Humalog or the glucose takes a long time when either injected or taken orally. I also think that perhaps being attached to machines and less able to move around would make the process more drawn out and therefore be counter-productive. If there was a genuine medical reason, then fair enough, not I am not wholly convinced there always is. I think I have had too many negative experiences with 'health-care professionals' to simply accept what they have to say and yes, I sometimes so also suspect that having diabetes also means you are dead from the neck up with some docs!
Will stop before I too get on a rant (am also typing sneakily at work and this may be a bit disjointed - that's my disclaimer anyway!)