Type 1 diabetes and pregnancy

[Megan54]

Hello
is anyone else type 1 diabetic and pregnant or recently had a baby?
im struggling such a lot to juggle my pregnancy symptoms (sickness, nausea, exhaustion, permanent metal taste in my mouth, wretching constantly) with the diabetes side of things (more frequent hypos, stress of keeping my sugars where they need to be for pregnancy, worry about complications, BM spikes after I’m sick or have manic episodes of pregnancy hunger) and life stresses (I can work from home but my job is quite taxing and stressful, I get married in 6 weeks, both me and my partner have huge families and have had loads going on there too). I really feel like I’m the only one struggling this much with it.

a few people have suggested I take a few weeks off sick while things hopefully settle down on the diabetes and pregnancy symptoms front as I’m 16 weeks now so hopefully after the next few it’ll get easier. But I am riddled with guilt at the thought of going if this and at falling short when I feel everyone else copes so much better than I seem to be doing.

the last few weeks have taken all of the enjoyment out of pregnancy for me and I’ve gone from so so excited to honestly just drained and anxious about everything. I’m not looking forward to my wedding I’m not doing well at work and I’m not even excited to pick out things for the baby any more I’m just KNACKERED and so so disappointed in myself for not handling everything better. Can someone please tell me I’m not the only one so I don’t feel like the worlds worst woman/mother/employee/fiancee

Type one and pregnancy is such hard work without all the other factors. My kids are now teens but I remember being so utterly exhausted. I definitely did not glow during pregnancy, hopefully things will get easier with pregnancy symptoms but you will also get far more medical appointments. You are doing something amazing, please know this and give yourself a break from work to rest if needed. I was in this group which looks like it is still going. https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1STSZRLo8L/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I am type 1, my daughter is now 4 months. She was born at 36 weeks however my consultant agreed I could have an induction at 37 weeks but this was changed last minute. I remember once I hit 22 weeks my insulin needed increasing by quite a lot as I kept having spikes and then there on every few weeks it was being increased as it was harder and harder to keep in range. She was born weighing 9.2 and I had very well controlled sugars. I had many many appointments and was under a lot of pressure with worry. I had bad sickness until around 16 weeks x She was also born c section by the way x

And I was in hospital every week from 27 weeks having 2 ctg appointments plus I’d be in triage the odd week too from her not moving as much. I was majorly stressed especially about something going wrong. At 18 weeks I had protein which was picked up by a&e and I was convinced something would go wrong and kept telling myself I’d feel better once I got to 24 weeks at a viable gestation but 24 weeks came and I was still a worrier. I did settle down though. I never had any complications tbh all my extra scans were normal, sugar levels were always good. No signs of preeclampsia or high blood pressure x