I just had to watch that scene in Steel Magnolias to remind myself
@ArtemisBow.
Yes, hypos were bad, as they still are today for some people.
I had my children in 1978 and 1980. The first was born in Bristol where the BMH were trialling a way to keep expectant T1’s blood sugars low, lower than ‘normal’, and I had some interesting hypos, we all did (there were a few of us). We came into the hospital for 24 hour monitoring once a fortnight, then once a week in the last month. Portable blood sugar testing was just becoming more widely available for T1s back then and insulins were still bovine or porcine, and there wasn’t much variety. Syringes, no half unit pens.
I remember being woken one night on the T1 pregnant mothers ward when a group of four staff were trying to hold one of us still to administer intravenous glucose.
I felt really really lucky to have my first baby in Bristol and used what I’d learned there when I had my second in a smaller town in the SE. Back then, too many T1s babies were too large when they were born and had various problems if the mother’s blood sugars weren’t properly monitored. When I had baby number two, the staff in the small, unprogressive hospital, found it hard to believe I had T1 as “diabetics always have very big babies”.
I don’t think we were told we couldn’t have babies here, but I don’t know about the States. Maybe
@Marie 2 can shed light on that?