how old was you/r child wen they went onto a pump?

Hi

My son Erland is 3 (June birthday) and has been on a pump for 6 weeks. He was diagnosed at 20 months. Now we've got the night time levels sorted (twice nightly checking was tough going) the pump is excellent. It's given us so much more flexibility and much steadier blood sugar levels.

I'm assuming that you already carb count as that is essential for a pump.

its not easy when they are so little.

Annette

My daughter was 4 when she went on to the pump. But we were lucky since we could trial the pump first to see how she/we got on.
I must say she loves it she hates having the canulas but thats only every 3 days.
Leah was always high when 1st diagnosed and this really helps.
We have found some fantastic pump belts from an american site which she loves.
But you have to feel happy with it, we have been on the pump now for about 6months still learning about it.Theres so much to it. But as long as she is happy with it thats all that matters since its her with the diabetes. Hope this helps.

My daughter pulls the canula out every now and then (when its in her leg and goes to the tiolet mainly) or when she is playing outside and she knocks it. We just have to redo it, although it is anoying but now she has had the pump/canulas for 6 months she is gettind used to it and she is more used to it so not so many accidents. Hope you get yourself / daughter sorted.
Do you use the carb and cals book we find it really useful we have 2 one at home and one in the car incase we eat out.
Good luck

Kai was 7 when he went on the pump and will be 14 on Saturday. It is the best thing we ever did for him, diabetes related, but carb counting is key. It makes life much more flexible and manageable, especially when they are small and they get the childhood illnesses and stomach bugs. My biggy was always tummy bugs that little ones get. We alway have our main meal of the day in the evening and Kai would come home from school, seem absolutely fine then a couple of hours later start with it, and then you end up in the situation where you have this vomiting 5-year-old who feels understandably awful but can't understand why mummy and daddy are forcing him to eat sugar off a spoon because he's had this huge bolus of insulin inside him that now wants to send him hypo becaues its go no food to work on. With the pump, because it works without background insulin, you just reduce the basal rate, or take it off. Same for exercise. some people say they find as a T1 difficult to lose weight re increased exercise becaues they end up taking more snacks. with the pump you can simply reduce the rate.