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Hello! My name is Vicky and I have been a T1 for almost 23 years. I am 17 weeks pregnant with our 3rd little miracle, due in Sept. We have a 5 year old boy and a 17 month old boy, both VERY HEALTHY and beautiful little angels! I am on the Minimed REVEL insuling pump with Humalog (humilin). I have used...

It depends on how sophisticated you are and your approach to therapy. I ate whatever I wanted, when I wanted. It takes foresight and progressively longer lag times. I used Symlin for my last two trimesters and it made a tremendous difference as I became more and more insulin resistant. One tool that...

Oh I cannot imagine upper arm! I wore a pump for two pregnancies, have 2 healthy boys, 1 of which tested positive for the higher risk gene only. Children of mothers with Type 1 diabetes have a 3% increased risk of developing the disease whereas children of fathers have a 7% chance. At least those were...

Manuela - All are very good questions. I had both of my children at 37 weeks and 3 or 4 days for that reason. In mothers with diabetes, the placenta ages more quickly than in one without diabetes, despite the glycemic control throughout pregnancy. As the placenta ages, it proves increasingly suboptimal...

Hi there - Actually there have been several studies examining blood glucose levels in menstruation cycles. Certain points during the cycle tend to yield more insulin resistance than others. Because pregnancy forgoes the cyclical hormones, it also bypasses this initial insulin resistance. Typically a...

Hey Amanda. So your doctor isn't crazy to suggest that you induce at 37 weeks. The larger the fetus, the greater the likelihood of post-partum complications for both you and the baby. He is not entirely accurate about the cause for the size of your baby. It is theorized that women with type 1 diabetes...

If I remember correctly, mothers with type 1 diabetes have a 3% greater chance than the general public to pass on diabetes to their children whereas fathers with type 1 have a 7% greater chance than the general (ie. non-diabetic) population. The cool thing is that now there are many studies that screen...

Hi Katie. Around week 10-12, the insulin requirement does tend to decrease. It is postulated that it is secondary to increased insulin sensitivity, possibly because of the decrease in the anti-insulin hormone progesterone. Conversely, as pregnancy progreses, contra-insulin hormones increase and cause...

I'll share my experience with having kids as a person with diabetes with a little medical insight as well (I'm also a physician - albeit a new one!). My A1Cs have always been <7 but my endo at the time wanted it <6.5. I was less educated my 1st pregnancy and CGM wasn't around so I did...