Category / Pregnancy & Diabetes

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Where has the year gone !! … back to April 1993

When I started this blog I was going to write about my story from first being diagnosed, however so much has happened in the past year that I was unable to go back to my blog as I was dealing with current diabetic issues!!

Therefore I have decided to bring my blog up to date quicker by saying my history in a briefer format.

APRIL 1993  had my first baby a Girl by  C-section.. A fairly good diabetic pregnancy with no real complications except for delivering the baby at 37 weeks due to Oedema.

There is no point discussing the complications re diabetic pregnancies as many guidelines have changed as it was over 20 years ago!

DECEMBER 1995 had my second baby by C- section.. A slightly harder pregnancy as the baby a Boy was nearly 10lbs by week 36 so had to deliver him on News Years Eve by Emergency Caesarian ! He was in special care unit for a week…

Having 2 young children proved very tiring with having to manage my diabetes as well,. so I employed a lovely au pair to help me. I had to change to a new ENDOCRINOLOGIST No 3  more local as hard to travel into town with the young children. I was feeling extremely tired all the time so I decided to take an Alternative health route !!!

I went to see an IRIDOLOGY Specialist !!… (To be continued….)

 

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June 1992 .. My life turned upside down !

I was still working, but needed to read everything about travelling with diabetes as my job meant me travelling to the Far East and turning my body clock round!  Now that I injected it worried me.

The end of late night dinners ..I started staying in more as I used to have low sugars everyday sometimes twice a day but that was because my sugars were  up and down ..later to be diagnosed as brittle diabetes .

We were trying for a baby , soon after our honeymoon I conceived but 8weeks later I had a miscarriage which transpired was because I was early stages diabetic but had not been diagnosed yet!

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I was told I couldn’t get pregnant until my sugars were stable …6.0 to 6.9 mmol/l (108 to 126 mg/dl)….