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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SallyEzra" data-source="post: 1871527" data-attributes="member: 473136">Hi,Congratulations on your 3rd pregnancy. I do appreciate how concerning some of these additional tests you have as a type 1 diabetic can be - I am currently on my 2nd pregnancy at 34wks & just like my first pregnancy with my son feel so anxious at each scan....to the point that I saw a homeopath who gave me some pills that I can pop every 5mins whilst waiting for the scans (!).....probably placebo, but makes me feel better!My son was born 3yrs ago & my local nhs did a 24wk cardiac scan back then & I had another in my nhs hospital for this pregnancy at 24wks. I have also had scans done in both pregnancies at the Fetal Medicine Centre in London & they also recommended & did a cardiac scan at 24wks.   In both pregnancies the cardiac scans came back as OK. However my son’s growth decreased at 31wks, so they induced him at 35wks & despite being very small & needing some phototherapy in special care, he was fine within a few days. In this pregnancy, just like with my son, the hospital team are concerned about my low blood sugars (inexplicably I seem to get the opposite of elevated blood sugars as pregnancy progresses), so have booked me for induction again in the next 2 weeks & I have the steroids to take to help the baby’s lung function to mature this week. My hba1c’s in pregnancy are crazily low & just when I think we are getting a grip on it, a few days later I have to cut my basal again. I currently have to go to the hospital at least once a week & often feel ridiculous sat waiting in the diabetic/obstetric clinic munching on glucose!.My experiences tell me that type 1 diabetes clearly causes obstetric teams additional concern throughout a pregnancy but I cope with it by just handing myself over to the process - I am not of a medical background, so whilst I ask questions to better understand it all, I do have a good hospital team who clearly care about doing the best job they can & minimising risk to both the baby & I as much as possible.And I think your husband raises a really good point - so much can be highlighted via the extra checks done in a diabetic pregnancy which otherwise go unnoticed until birth. And whilst it adds so much worry whilst tests are done & anomalies are raised, at least it helps best protect the child, the parents & the hospital for anything they may have to deal with post birth.I met with one of our friends from one of our ‘baby & toddler’ groups last week whose son does have a heart defect, but as she was classified as a ‘not high risk’ pregnancy, it was not identified until after birth, as she was deemed to not require any further checks. And she was reflecting back on how whilst her pregnancy was relaxed, the panic & danger that followed before the child’s heart defect was identified, was not something she ever wanted to repeat. And in any future pregnancies she will be offered the 24wk cardiac scan & would definitely take it. But equally, she also said that some of the other parents she had got to meet whose baby’s did have defects that were identified in pregnancy, felt the opposite & would not have opted for additional testing. I guess we are all different & for me, whilst I am grateful for all the checks, I cannot say the same for the level of concern they bring whilst you lie there waiting for someone to tell you what they have found. So I keep popping the little homeopathic pills for anxiety & just hoping & keeping my fingers crossed that all will be ok!I hope your tests go well this week. And please do update how you get on, will be thinking of you. And also managing your existing 2 children whilst getting into London - I have had to do a few of my private clinic scans & blood tests with my active 2.5-3yr son in tow during this pregnancy whilst also trying to manage my low blood sugar - bit of a handful to say the least, which did result in an ambulance being called to deal with me once earlier this year. But I am guessing that maybe your 8yr old is able to help you out a bit now? </blockquote>

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