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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Namztorb" data-source="post: 1395059" data-attributes="member: 355675">It's really hard to get to grips with it all. Kudos to you, your wife, your little boy and all the other parents and children dealing with this every day.My son (6) was diagnosed last October. All I would say is try not to be too harsh on your son with changing his diet radically. We all want the very best for our kids, and it's so difficult to know how to achieve that. You just don't want him to feel deprived, and like diabetes has made him too different from the person he used to be. The nurses said to me, there are no "bad" foods for a T1 child. Don't adjust his food to fit diabetes, we will adjust his insulin to suit what he wants to eat.Once you start carb counting he will have much more flexibility... and you will have a whole new thing to content with! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  Baby steps, one day at a time, and never take a bad blood glucose reading personally.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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