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Hi @sadsocks The first 12 months can be a major upheaval, apart from a huge learning curve, it's also dealing with the many emotions attached to living with this 24 hours a day, it can take over your life. It does and will get easier in time, learning is really the key to handling this better, the DAFNE course is brilliant for getting to grips with this, please if you can see if you can get her onto this course, it will help in terms of meeting others, discussing everything type 1 related and will answer any questions she may have. I also recommend taking up exercise or meditation if it all seems to much, both will help hugely too. You sound like a wonderful mum, i'm sure she will be fine, best wishes J