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First of all, congratulations on your pregnancy. I am diabetic, T2, as well as PCOS, and have now had two pregnancies, both healthy boys under 8lb. Don't panic. Its not the always easiest thing to do, but it is possible to manage your sugars during pregnancy and lead a normal life. Your...

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Despite my best efforts we ended up being induced last week at 40 +4 and Baby was born by cesarean the next day. Ended up on the sliding scale this time so baby had hypoglycemia to start of with. That and a couple of other complications kept us in hospital for an extra 5 days but now we are...

I didn't know I was pregnant until I was around 12 weeks so no idea what my control was. Probably awful. Lol. I had terrible trouble at the end of last year into this year. Thankfully I was able to get control pretty quickly when I started to be monitored. Had my second sweep yesterday...

Progress! The consultant was finally forced to look at my notes as I want able to make my last appointment due to car trouble. She agreed that although still a higher risk I was in the lower high risk category and could therefore go to at least 40 weeks. Having sweeps at home in the hope of...

What about Xylatol? Has anybody used that? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi there, The placenta can fail in all pregnancies, usually through calcification of the placenta. I know that I don't have that as I got them to scan it a couple of weeks ago. There is a higher instance of this happening, the danger rises from 1 in 1000 to 5 in 1000. They would very...

Hello all, This is my first post on the forum. I've been diagnosed as Type 2 for 6 years after struggling with PCOS since my teens. I am currently 37 weeks into my second pregnancy and fighting the obstetricians to stop being induced next week. With my first pregnancy I was induced at 39...