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Any pregnant Type 1 diabetics?

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dieciocho · 06/09/2012 07:44

Hi,
I'm looking for other pregnant Type 1 diabetics in London, just to have someone to keep in contact with and share advice/horror stories/support each other etc.
I don't actually know anyone at all with Type 1, despite having had it myself since 1989

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dieciocho · 27/11/2012 11:33

Well, I went to work last night, but concentrated on the movements as I taught my class - there were none, so I got DP to pick me up and drive me to the hospital when I finished teaching.

Sod's Law, just as I was connected to the monitor, baby started kicking!
But they still monitored me/us with a heart trace thing (CTCG?) for about 40 mins. It all looked fine - heart rate ranged from 135 -175
However, they want me to go back in today for another heart trace thingy "just to be on the safe side".
I had ++ ketones (no idea why) and they told me off for not eating enough - apparently they could tell from my urine.

Re: Bona's diabetic anterior placenta theory - how interesting, might Google that.

So glad things went/are going well Spotty! xxx

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BonaDea · 27/11/2012 11:35

I'm telling you - I think we have cracked a key piece of diabetes-in-pregnancy research here!!!

dieciocho · 27/11/2012 11:50

Ok, so I've only spent 10 mins looking, but haven't found any info. on Google. Lots about correlation between birth weight/PGH/birth type and T1 though!

Is anterior the most common position for "other" women anyway? I didn't even know that placentas could have positions until my 12-week scan!

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SpottyTeacakes · 27/11/2012 13:24

I know the placenta can't be in the same place twice as where it was attached before is technically a wound, so scar tissue is there. Maybe more common in subsequent babies?

BonaDea · 27/11/2012 13:56

Posterior is the most common position, which just means the placenta is located towards the back of your womb - ie near your spine. With anterior it is at the front, so near your stomach. That's why baby's movements are muffled with an anterior placenta, because there is an extra layer (of placenta) between you and the baby.

Mine is 'high anterior' which means it's at the top. Low lying placenta, whether anterior or posterior is more problematic.

Anterior itself is nothing to worry about, but it is definitely not the common thing.

However, I can't genuinely think of why it would be any way connected to diabetes - I think it's just coincidence!

SpottyTeacakes · 27/11/2012 15:22

So my diabetes nurse just came to see me and after me panicking about having an 8.2 pre lunch reading she said we should aim for readings between 6-10 because 1, you need to get out of the habit of being in such tight control (ie a 3.4 before breakfast was great in pregnancy but too low for me normally) and 2, I don't want to be going hypo all the time when my milk comes in which is inevitable if I'm running below six

RueDeWakening · 27/11/2012 16:25

Your DSN sounds very sensible Smile

BonaDea · 27/11/2012 18:48

And also: my god, you've just given birth. Give yourself a break, woman, you've done an amazing job! Grin

SpottyTeacakes · 27/11/2012 18:54

Haha well I'm pretty bored to be honest Hmm I just want to go home SCBU sucks

Mylittlepuds · 27/11/2012 22:13

I can't bloody wait to run myself as high as I want. I'll be eating all sorts. McDonald's milkshakes included. Mmmmm. I think i'm in the midst of what's commonly dubbed 'diabetes burnout'. I'm sick of the ups, downs, ups, guilt, worrying about baby, testing, walking round the block to bring levels down. Arrggggghhhhh!!!! Rant over Smile that's better.

RueDeWakening · 27/11/2012 22:24

I had a maple pecan Danish and a mince pie earlier Blush they were lovely! And 8.8 after, so not tooooo bad...

Spotty, scbu does indeed suck, DS was there for 5 weeks - don't sweat it though, you'll both be home soon Smile

Mylittlepuds · 27/11/2012 22:30

Mmmm maple pecan Danish!! I was offered a mince pie earlier had to turn it down as my levels have been sooo hideous while I've been
ill and had a bloody egg instead. An egg. Arrgghhhhhhhh!

I hope you're home soon Spotty. Had any post delivery hypos? Did your insulin ratios double in the end?

dieciocho · 28/11/2012 08:42

"diabetes burnout"? I've never heard that term before. Although I'm fed up with the whole bloody palaver fairly often - say once a month or something!

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Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 09:04

No it's a real thing promise!

www.diabetes.co.uk/emotions/diabetes-burnout.html

Fits how I feel on a regular basis. It is a bloody palaver. You've got that word exactly right.

Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 09:09

www.diabetes.co.uk/emotions/diabetes-burnout.html

BonaDea · 28/11/2012 10:19

There was a really heartwarming thread about burnout on the Diabetes Support Forum I post on, too. It was soooo nice to read about things that other people do that I sort of keep secret (like, when you know you've been bad, just not testing because you can't bear to see the reading!).

I'm becoming HUGELY frustrated with levels at the moment. I know intellectually I just need to keep hiking up my ratios, but I can't believe that in the course of just a couple of weeks, I would need to increase so much. Yesterday morning woke up at 5.7 (good). Had a coffee and a water and tested about 11am to see if I could finally eat something - 10.2. I had just been at my desk, so there was no way I could have had a hypo and rebound as I would definitely have felt it.

Got levels down before lunch. Had (admittedly delicious) lunch of salad leaves, a few baby beets, mozzarella, avocado and salami. (the only thing in there with ANY BLOODY CARBS is the beetroot). I also had a fruit salad which I didn't eat but thought I'd save incase I dropped down after lunch. I tested an hour later was was 15+. I just don't get it.

Eventually got down to 7.2 or something, shot 8 UNITS, waited an hour and ate an apple. An hour after that, I was 11.2. It is just MENTAL. The fruit salad got relegated to the work fridge.

I've had several days like this now, where I feel like I'm just playing catch up and doing a terrible job. I'm pretty confident that I'm not coming down with something, as I feel fine in myself, just guilty all the time. Last night I went to bed at 5.3 and woke at 8.2. That's despite having increased my levemir by 4 units. I had to take 2 units of novo just to stop the same rise that I had yesterday.

Anyway, sorry, I'm ranting Sad

dieciocho · 28/11/2012 10:48

Oh bona, that does sound infuriating. I don't feel like I can advise you; I have days like that too from time to time. It's a case of taking things one hour/test at a time, I suppose!

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dieciocho · 28/11/2012 10:54

Woah Puds, that burnout link is crazy! I'm nowhere near that fed up with it all. The people who've commented below it saying things like "just waiting for coma now" and stuff are not at all like me. They sound like they're in scary situations.
No, no, no, I just rant a bit and eat some cheese or something!

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Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 10:57

Bona - FWIW it sounds like you might be fighting off something. I've been the same this last week. Despite being so, so 'good' nothing I was doing was following any pattern and it really, really does get you down when you're trying your hardest. That said I've had to accept my ratios are now increasing too. Try not to get too frustrated - we're all in this together and your control is usually amazing. This is just a short adjustment period whilst you're poorly/ratios are going up. The baby will be here soon Smile. Ooh can you link that thread? Sounds like something I need to read at mo!

Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 10:59

Ooh have not read the comments! Going to have a nose now.

Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 11:39

Sorry Bona misread your post! Thought you'd said you were pretty confident you WERE coming down with something! My response now just looks cheeky - lol!!!! Honestly though I've just had a week how you describe - could be poorliness, could be hormones, could be ratios. So sorry if that post sounded patronising!! X

BonaDea · 28/11/2012 11:40

Here's the thread I was talking about which is quite funny in parts, and less dramatic sounding than that other one!

diabetes-support.org.uk/diabetesforum/index.php/topic,2169.0.html

Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 11:42

Also Bona I think it's the 'trying hard' to sort things out which is the kick in the teeth. I end up slamming doors and taking it out on my poor husband. This last week I've found that every time I don't hit target in 90 mins I go out on a mission of a brisk walk for 20 mins and by 2 hours it's dead on. Then I start to worry I'm overdoing it a bit..

Mylittlepuds · 28/11/2012 11:43

Ooh will read. I have DS asleep on me and baby going mental in me. Very surreal!

newbie6 · 28/11/2012 12:05

Hi bonadea

Not sure if this will help at all but I find that caffeine raises my BS so only have decaf now. You probably are on decaf coffee/tea anyway but just thought I would mention in case that has made your sugars go up? I have found though like you that no matter how hard I try, in my third trimester (actually prob from about 24 weeks) my insulin requirements have shot up (trebled in some cases) and even then my BS can go high for no apparent reason, think you become a little more insulin resistant also?

I'm 32 weeks today and bizarrely am now finding that my insulin needs are reducing a little so who knows what is going on - the only way I can control it is testing every couple of hours - pain in the you know what but feel its the only way I can monitor my levels closely.

Like others have said, once baby is here, I think I may hide my testing kit for a whole week and eat what the hell I like!

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