FaithCatherine
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Congratulations on the pregnancy.
What was control like before the little one decided to do their thing?
Hormone highs are normal and if you were doing OK before you know how to adjust doses and keep things in check. No pregnancy is perfect but you can manage sugars.
Hi, I understand completely where you're coming from. Maybe this will help.
I had an unplanned pregnancy, my sugar levels were outrageous and everyone thought there wasn't much hope. Me and my partner both discussed having an abortion as it just didn't seem possible to have a healthy baby.
I powered through, we had a scan almost every month and every month the baby was perfect. I had to work really closely with the diabetic nurses to get my sugars drastically lower and I managed to with their help. My hba1c went from 70 to around 42. It isn't easy, infact it was the hardest 9 months of my life.
I gave birth to a healthy little girl six weeks ago and was induced two weeks early. Don't stress yourself out, you can't go back all you can do it keep your glucose levels good now. There was always a chance the baby will have defects, whether your sugars were perfect or not, but if there's anything I've learnt it's to focus on the now. Once you've had your 12 week scan, the chances decrease massively and that continues to decrease every scan.
Good luck with your pregnancy
I'm just going to try to put a bit of perspective in. Medical science has done wonderful things for T1 pregnancies. In the mid 50s, when my mother was diagnosed after a DKA, there were no glucometers, and pretty well the only test available was a chemistry experiment urine test which told you how much sugar you'd passed into your urine. My mother had her first T1 pregnancy way way too soon after her diagnosis, and the result, unsurprisingly (we're talking about an initial hba1c in DKA territory), was a stillbirth at full term (after an emergency caesarean when the baby stopped moving). Scans would have told her the pregnancy wasn't viable but of course they weren't available then. But she went on to have two successful pregnancies over the next 7 years (my brother and I).
By the time I was having kids (in the 90s) glucometers but not cgms were available, so I don't know how bad any spikes were, but I had two normalish pregnancies (other than some epic hypos, ugh), and my kids, now in their twenties, are fine. (I could have done without the worry of an extra heart scan that became available for my second child, where they hummed and ha-ed and said there might be an issue but they wouldn't tell me till she was born, and when she was born they did a scan and said she was fine.)
There's always risk in any pregnancy, I really find it hard to believe that one or two weeks of high readings will do anything significant to that risk. My understanding, for most (diabetic or not) pregnancies, is that the first 12 weeks are the most critical time, if the baby's not meant to be (eg chromosomal abnormality) you usually lose it then. That's why many people don't announce their pregnancies for those first 12 weeks. But the fact that you've passed the 8 week viability test is fantastic news.
Congratulations on your pregnancy. The stats for T1 pregnancies are very good now, because of the excellent antenatal care. If cgms had been around when I was having kids I would probably have gone for a third (and missed out on some memorable hypos). If your team thought that there was an issue with the baby they would tell you.
Good luck.
Hi,
I am 9 weeks pregnant and terrified. Before I knew I was pregnant (since the day conceived pretty much) and for about a week after I found out, I was suffering from outlandish highs. The worst went up to 20! I rang and spoke to my diabetic nurse several times and she wasn't very helpful. I then found out I was pregnant and she confirmed the highs were likely caused by the hormones. It settled down, and now I'm struggling the other way a bit but am receiving much better care at weekly appointments at a diabetic antenatal team. But I am terrified I did irreparable damage on those early weeks. I've never had such resistant highs and I am (uselessly of course) so mad at myself and my old Diabetic nurse that we didn't twig sooner. I've been so down about it, I even considered abortion today as the guilt and worry are killing me. We tried for this baby for 2.5 years and i want it so badly but I feel terrible. When will I know that everything is ok? We had a viability scan at 8 weeks and saw the heart beat, but now I'm so scared. Did anyone have similar and how was their babies? I spent all afternoon in floods of tears, and have an anxiety disorder anyway and I just wish I had a window to the womb to make sure the hitchhiker is doing ok. I want to tell her I am so so sorry for being such a **** mum already. Sorry for the emotional blergh. I just needed to reach out.
Hi,
I am 9 weeks pregnant and terrified. Before I knew I was pregnant (since the day conceived pretty much) and for about a week after I found out, I was suffering from outlandish highs. The worst went up to 20! I rang and spoke to my diabetic nurse several times and she wasn't very helpful. I then found out I was pregnant and she confirmed the highs were likely caused by the hormones. It settled down, and now I'm struggling the other way a bit but am receiving much better care at weekly appointments at a diabetic antenatal team. But I am terrified I did irreparable damage on those early weeks. I've never had such resistant highs and I am (uselessly of course) so mad at myself and my old Diabetic nurse that we didn't twig sooner. I've been so down about it, I even considered abortion today as the guilt and worry are killing me. We tried for this baby for 2.5 years and i want it so badly but I feel terrible. When will I know that everything is ok? We had a viability scan at 8 weeks and saw the heart beat, but now I'm so scared. Did anyone have similar and how was their babies? I spent all afternoon in floods of tears, and have an anxiety disorder anyway and I just wish I had a window to the womb to make sure the hitchhiker is doing ok. I want to tell her I am so so sorry for being such a **** mum already. Sorry for the emotional blergh. I just needed to reach out.
Hi,
I am 9 weeks pregnant and terrified. Before I knew I was pregnant (since the day conceived pretty much) and for about a week after I found out, I was suffering from outlandish highs. The worst went up to 20! I rang and spoke to my diabetic nurse several times and she wasn't very helpful. I then found out I was pregnant and she confirmed the highs were likely caused by the hormones. It settled down, and now I'm struggling the other way a bit but am receiving much better care at weekly appointments at a diabetic antenatal team. But I am terrified I did irreparable damage on those early weeks. I've never had such resistant highs and I am (uselessly of course) so mad at myself and my old Diabetic nurse that we didn't twig sooner. I've been so down about it, I even considered abortion today as the guilt and worry are killing me. We tried for this baby for 2.5 years and i want it so badly but I feel terrible. When will I know that everything is ok? We had a viability scan at 8 weeks and saw the heart beat, but now I'm so scared. Did anyone have similar and how was their babies? I spent all afternoon in floods of tears, and have an anxiety disorder anyway and I just wish I had a window to the womb to make sure the hitchhiker is doing ok. I want to tell her I am so so sorry for being such a **** mum already. Sorry for the emotional blergh. I just needed to reach out.
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