Pregnant type 1 diabetics, step over here...

[RueDeWakening]

I seem to have filled up the old thread and thought I better start a new one! Still got ages to go, don't leave me now...

Am currently sat waiting for my 16 week antenatal appt, been here an hour so far and just had BP done and that's it.

When I used long acting I took 40u a night (lantus). So I don't think it's that much!

My basal novorapid total now is at 27.325u per 24 hours.

Thanks Rue. I get shifty about taking more insulin. It's a confidence thing! I'm going to see how I go tonight and then pop it up one tomorrow if needs be.

puds 14.5 of long acting isn't loads - l was on 12 + 5 throughout 2nd and 3rd trimesters.

spotty, where can l find Medela breast shields? My mum's bought me Boots own, but they're massive and Violet can't fit them in her little mouth! l can't see any other ones on Boots' website.

You can get then from amazon or kiddicare. Not sure where you can get them on the high street. Make sure you get the small ones

Hi puds yes i was from 9pm onwards i was rising by at least 1mmolnan hour until at least midnight, dsn said it was due to lows between dinner and bed however ive found that changing the time i take my nightime levemir has helped so instead of 8am and 10pm i now do 8am and 8-8.30pm which means that it starts kicking in around 9pm and so far (crosses fingers) has meant ive had a few more nights where i havent had to nurse it back down.

14u all in?? Im on a 11/13 so 24u long acting per day. Had a crap night last night but it was my own fault i overestimated dinner had lots of homemade lasagne and garlic bread took 20u as also had 2 squares of choc then hypo at 9pm had it at 4.1 when i went to bed but when i tested at 3am was 10.4!! 2u correction had me back down to 6.3 this morning so hopefully it wasnt high for too long!

Ha ha ha - I hope you are all sitting down. I'm on 14u Levemir in the morning and 26 at night!!! And it keeps rising.

Starting to feel down about morning levels though. I was a bit high before bed - 9.1 or something. That was only an hour or so after dinner, though, so I took a slight correction dose last thing. I'm pretty sure I didn't have a hypo - I didn't wake up feeling low and I don't have a 'hypo hangover' if you know what I mean. But I was still 13.0 when I woke up. Took 6 units correction dose and was still 9.1 2 hours later. Have just taken 20 units and will have soemthing to eat in a bit.

I guess I should just increase my Levemir but it just seems so much to be taking. I've also had one or two nasty nighttime hypos while I've been pregnant and I feel wary about risking them again. URGH.

Bona I know exactly how you feel. I didn't up my long acting last night as I'd had a healthy tea. Anyway woke up at 2.30am with a hypo of 2.5. Wouldn't come back up. Then OF COURSE went to about 13 for a few hours before coming back down. It's a bloody nightmare.

If you ladies snack in the night do you take normal ratios? Also what do you all do for snacks between meals? Just 1u per 10g? Or normal pregnancy meal ratios?

I do pregnancy meal rations for all food. 1u per 10g is no use to me at all these days!!

Ds now weighs 9lb2 So that's 11oz in just over two weeks, makes all the hard work seem worth it. Just under 50th centile for corrected age and 9th for actual age

Hi spotty - what does 'corrected' and 'actual' age mean?

If babies are prem they have an actual age based on when they were born, plus a corrected age based on when they should have been born. So for my DS his actual age is 2y11m, his corrected age is 2y9m because he was 2 months early.

They actually only correct until LO is either 1 or 2 years old anyway, depending on how prem they were and when they're developmentally meant to catch up iyswim.

Yep sorry should have explained they do it for babies born before 37 weeks

Oh and it's mostly used for height/weight and development milestones, as they're delayed or low in prem babies - so DS was 15+4 weeks old before he smiled, rather than the normal 7ish weeks, but bang on for his corrected age.

Oh god, I hadn't realised that things are affected like that when babies are prem - obviously I realised about weight, but hadn't thought of other developmental milestones. In some ways, that must be terrifying as you must end up wondering whether they WILL catch up or not!

It's weird because I'm now 29 weeks and I'm just thinking about the babies on the board born not too many weeks much further along.

I've just booked an overnight business trip to Paris when I'm 31 weeks. Am I crazy?!

*when I say 'board', I meant "this thread"!!!

Has anyone heard about/had experience of non-perfect blood sugars affecting baby's poo? Violet has had (sorry) projectile lentil-soup-poo for 2 days and I've read something about my blood sugars causing this.
I'm probably running at about 9 as my daily average now.

Nope, haven't heard anything like that.

A lot of my books mention the various poo stages that newborns go through, but can't remember reading much about lentils... Just because your BS is averaging 9 doesn't mean that violet's is, though, surely? Her little pancreas will be doing the job yours doesn't...

True. I admit that I am struggling to get my head round the idea that her pancreas functions correctly! Lucky little girl .

English mustard with bits of whole grain mustard in you only need to worry if the poo is green a few tunes in a row or mucusy

Evening how is everyone doing? Babies included

Have to admit ive been badly behaved over the last cpl of days having been stuck in the house surronded by choc ive given in and had some with dinner my bgs have been ok with it but still feel guilty.

My baby's ok. I had a hospital appointment today with neurologist and whilst in the small crowded waiting room ds spent the whole time farting loudly

Hi all,

Quick question, my DH has a cold....should I be worried about him passing it to Zach? Keep worrying how a 5 day old baby would cope with a cold?

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Newbie he needs to wash his hands etc but not much else you can do. Ds had a cold at two weeks and was quite snotty but you can get saline sprays for babies so it wasn't too bad

spotty - so, so funny! Fart story had me and DP in stitches.

Pfft! How embarrassing Spotty! Hope they weren't too smelly.

I'm okay Hoping but this night time level rise thing is v. annoying! Almost hit target tonight (8.5 90 mins after eating so quite chuffed) but then to my utter annoyance I could see from the CGM that it started rising! Took a correction but it's obviously going to be another couple of hours before it's down again. I just can't understand it! This has happened to me on occasion when I've had something really fatty to eat, but that's not what's been going on here. Did the docs give you any explanation for it? Is it the long acting running out of steam do you reckon? Did you say you'd brought it forward an hour?

Also ladies re. my little problem above, how many of you split long acting, why did you start doing it and has it helped? Is it just a case of literally splitting your dose (so if I take 14u long acting on a night taking 7u morning and 7u night?) Do you do it with breakfast or earlier? And is there an adjustment period in terms of your ratios? Sorry for all the questions!

Aww I hope Zach doesn't get the cold - my MIL had a bad one when DS was new and he thankfully didn't get it. I think you just go into protective mum overdrive!