Hi @ Briony1, and congratulations on the birth of your daughter.
Pregnancy with diabetes is hard work, especially if you’re also caring for a small child. It can be a roller coaster of emotion and anxiety that you’re getting everything right.
The first thing that struck me was that you’re using a bit of guesswork to calculate your insulin and that your levels are a bit up and down.
Have you been on a Dafne course? If you haven’t then you ought to be offered one!
Low blood sugars makes the heart beat faster and so can anxiety and exhaustion. It can be worrying when it happens. Did the docs use an ECG to diagnose arythmia?
Did you have a post-natal diabetes follow up? Maybe you need a bit of expert help in sorting out doses now. And where, oh where, are the team that help you manage T1 right now?
It’s 38 years since my younger daughter was born but I can remember very vividly the enormous changes in doses and the difficult adjustments once she was born.
Maybe you should tell your GP all your worries, ask for their help, and ask too for a swift referral to a Consultant Endocrinologist? You seem to be doing a good job on your own but you need more help. The tools are available to make life easier for you: a Dafne course, a good idea of your current basal requirements and your ratios, a follow up check of your arythmia, a good post-natal diabetes check-up.
Ask for them!
And hang in there, don’t worry about the housework, get as much help as you can with day to day life, and relax so you can enjoy your baby and your little boy!
I don’t know if you’ve come across this
https://www.bertieonline.org.uk/
It might help.