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    Problems at school - Urgent advice needed please

    My 5 year old daughter is T1 and has been pumping since April. She also has selective mutism so has been given 32.5 hours a week funding for a 1:1 carer at school. Since September I have helped access training and supported her TA's with learning to use the pump. By half term it became clear...
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    Starting School

    So, Lottie is now 4 and a half and has been pumping since mid april. After a lot of effort getting things sorted for her at Pre-School we've now come to the next bridge, starting school. Lottie has 1:1 support at Pre-School because she also has selective mutism which means that she does not tell...
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    Babysitting

    What do you guys do about getting a babysitter. Lottie started pumping a month ago. Before the pump my husband's Mum babysat, although she's type 1 too she has messed up treating Lottie's hypos twice and I'm worried about her ability to use the pump as she can't even use a mobile phone. Am I...
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    Who's Pumping and Which Pump

    Well, we had Lotts CGMS fitted today and we are leaving it on for 6 days. We've just done a week of testing her at 2am and we're exhausted. She is consitently high at night even though we've upped her levemir by a unit. Her Consultant has suggested switching to pump if the CGMS data shows what...
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    Continuous Gucose Monitoring

    Hi Everyone, I haven't been on here for ages but I don't seem to have any spare time anymore. I was wondering if any of you had any experience with CGM. Lottie's BGls are all over the place ad she's been really suffering because of this. After trying everything, we are going to do 2am testing...
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    Pre-school issues - Help

    My 3yr old T1 daughter, Lottie, has been attending pre-school since before she was diagnosed. She never really settled well and became vey shy and introverted. I think this was partly due to the fact that she was becoming ill with the diabetes. I attended with her in an attempt to settle her...
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    Just when I thought I things were settling down..........

    So I thought we were getting the hang of the whole diabetes thing, managing Lottie's sugars well and slowly becoming less stressed. About two weeks ago Lottie was having really high blood sugar readings and I couldn't work out why. I changed her insulin, tested her monitors everything. We were...
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    Hot Weather

    We have had another day with lots of Hypos and I think it must be down to the hot weather and the fact that Lottie was very active today at Pre-School. I was wondering if any of you also experience this with your children and how you cope with it. I don't want to spend the whole summer as...
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    Nightmare Day

    Well I think we can well and truly say that Lottie has entered her 'Honeymoon Period'. Today she has had THREE hypos. We had only had a couple of mild ones so far and then today she decides to have three. I phoned the hospital earlier to find out what to do as I couldn't seem to keep her sugars...
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    Newly Diagnosed 3yr old - Need moral support

    Hi, My 3yr old daughter Lottie was diagnosed with type 1 nearly two weeks ago. She had been under the weather for a while but I couldn't work out why. I thought maybe she had a UTI. The weekend before she was diagnosed we had decided to get her checked out at the GP's on the Monday morning...