I have an 18 month old baby, I'm type 1 and I massively struggled post birth to get any sort of normality to my blood sugars. Your body goes through this massive thing and then your hormones are all over the place, lack of sleep, stress.... Its no wonder our diabetes plays up. As you know, you would have been insulin resistant in your last trimester and I presume you immediately reduced your insulin doses to prepregnancy levels once little one was born. Unfortunately, our bodies aren't the same as they were prepregnancy so there is a huge amount of adjusting that needs to happen as well as caring for your new baby. It's ****** hard!
I agree with some previous posts that it is most likely your background insulin causing the issue, because unless that is correct it's very difficult to know what your Carb ratio should be. You also may have a different Carb ratio for different times of the day..... I'm so gutted for you that you aren't getting the help you need from your health care team. Makes me feel very lucky!
I also would reiterate what someone else has said and please don't reduce your insulin, especially with ketones present. Not without speaking to a diabetic specialist. Do you use correction doses? Are they at the correct ratio? As in does one unit actually bring it down 3mmol, or whatever your ratio is.
Something else to bare in mind, if you are self managing and happy to do so, whatever you change (doses etc) takes at least 48 hours to show any real effect. So wait a couple of days to see of the change, if any, before changing anything else.
Hope that helps. You're a super mum doing it with type 1, remember that!
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I agree with some previous posts that it is most likely your background insulin causing the issue, because unless that is correct it's very difficult to know what your Carb ratio should be. You also may have a different Carb ratio for different times of the day..... I'm so gutted for you that you aren't getting the help you need from your health care team. Makes me feel very lucky!
I also would reiterate what someone else has said and please don't reduce your insulin, especially with ketones present. Not without speaking to a diabetic specialist. Do you use correction doses? Are they at the correct ratio? As in does one unit actually bring it down 3mmol, or whatever your ratio is.
Something else to bare in mind, if you are self managing and happy to do so, whatever you change (doses etc) takes at least 48 hours to show any real effect. So wait a couple of days to see of the change, if any, before changing anything else.
Hope that helps. You're a super mum doing it with type 1, remember that!
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