diabetes & pregnancy

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type 1 for 15 years & pregnant? any advice?

Oh boy really watch your intake. Babies of diabletic moms
tend to be bigger.

l said:

type 1 for 15 years & pregnant? any advice?

Get immediately to a specialist! My wife, type 1, gave birth
in 1985. Kaiser (HMO) has a "complicated OB" unit that
handled her. She had to test constantly and whenever she was
too high (I forget how high that was) they hospitalized her.

Birth was induced 2 weeks early due to a tendency for babies
of diabetics to die right at the end. The kid came out at 6
lbs. 3 oz. Pretty good for the child of a type 1.

We didn't even consider having a kid till the glucose
meter was invented. Now it's quite doable but you need the
right help.

Jon

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type 1 for 15 years & pregnant? any advice?

See your Endo. and get to an Ob/Gyn ASAP! I'm not type 1,
but I did have GD. I went twice weekly (at least) to the
Ob/Gyn and several times a month to the Endo. They take no
chances when you're pregnant and you're held to much tighter
control than someone who isn't pregnant.

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Type 2 users.bestweb.net~jboveOpen ↗

Hi, I had my daughter after having T1 for 28 years. My daughter was
born at 38 weeks (induction) and weighed 7 lbs, 1 ounce. My advice:

1. Get to a high-risk OB (a.k.a. perinatologist). You might
want to start calling the teaching hospitals in your
area. Diabetes makes your pregnancy high-risk, and they
will run lots of tests on your baby to ensure there are
no birth defects, placental problems, etc. I don't mean
to scare you, but the physicians definitely err on the
side of caution. If your A1C is under 7.0, statistically
your baby has no greater risk of defects than that of a
non-diabetic mom.

2. Get your readings down. I tested about 15 times per
day (and throughout the night). Some T1's test even
more often. I tried to keep my readings under 150, but
some diabetics shoot for 120 or lower. My A1C was 5.8
by the end of the pregnancy. You might want to
consider the pump.

3. Schedule regular endo appts. One risk to the baby is if
mom is hypothyroid--leads to brain defects, I think. When
you are pregnant, your thyroid is affected as well. You
need to be tested regularly. I would fax my endo my
glucose readings weekly and make adjustments via phone.

4. Keep a food diary. For me, this was critical. As the
fetus grows, your insulin requirements will change
dramatically. You need to track what you eat, how much
insulin you administered, and what your post-prandial
values are. This is a huge pain, but it will help a lot
because it's hard to remember what you took to cover the
sandwich this week versus last week and what has changed
since then.

5. Find a support network. There is a Yahoo group
exclusively for T1 pregnant women--the only such group on
the internet.

health.groups.yahoo.comPositiveDiabeticOpen ↗
Pregnancy/

Good luck!

--Lara

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type 1 for 15 years & pregnant? any advice?