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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leggott" data-source="post: 144884" data-attributes="member: 20065">Hi,  I wouldn't worry too much about having meals at set times.  Most two year olds are fussy eratic eaters at the best of times without throwing diabetes into the mix.  Although my 2 year old is not diabetic we found the only way of cutting out the morning bottle of milk was to give her fruit juice extremely diluted with warm water.  To cut out the carbs you could  use the no added sugar squash and add lots of warm water which you give in the bottle.  This hopefully would satisfy his thirst but he would remain hungry and eat breakfast at the normal time.  You could then give a non carb snack mid morning (no injection) and then an injection with this lunch. This would allow you to space out the injections allowing 3 - 4 hours between each one.  You need to be careful about giving too many injections as you can get a stacking effect of insulin which can then lead to hypos.  We find that with my daughter the novorapid has peaked at around 2 hours and almost finished working after 3, but for my son it takes a little longer.As far as night times goes it really is personal to your child.  my 2 diabetic children are both very different.  One needs a bigger carb snack before bed than the other.  But as a rule if their reading is lower than 6 or 7 before bed I would be giving between 5 -10g of carb.  It might help if you can get hold of a CGM and this will allow you to see what his bloods are doing overnight.  This may help you get his lantus dose as accurate as you possibly can which would help keeps his bloods more stable overnight.Hope this helps. Leggott</blockquote>

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