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<blockquote data-quote="sharonValerie" data-source="post: 398181" data-attributes="member: 48662"><p>Hi there, listen this is soooooo important, the reason you are hypoing is because your baby is taking everything from you and then some more. I am also a type 1 diabetic and have had three babies, that said the pregnancies were hell on earth, my blood sugar would drop from around 18.6 to 1.2 in two hours and I had the added complication of no warning signs. It is important to have good control during your pregnancy, but you must go back to the hospital and tell them you need help. That said, you could lower your basal insulin a bit and watch how it goes the next day, if you are still dropping too low, then you must lower the fast insulin before meals, even if only by a fraction. It's literally playing with the doses to get it right. Personally the hospital should be helping you with this especially as they will know that you can have severe hypos. It's a waste of time them being stroppy because they don't think you should have got pregnant because it won't change anything. Please try and talk to them and stress how you want to have a healthy baby and manage the diabetes so that you can avoid the hypo's, especially as they know you are going low at night. Like I said my pregnancies were hell and the hypos lasted the whole time, but generally it's only the first trimester that is bad. Don't feel bad because you're pregnant. You should enjoy it and look forward to being a family. Good luck, I hope you get the help you need. :clap:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sharonValerie, post: 398181, member: 48662"] Hi there, listen this is soooooo important, the reason you are hypoing is because your baby is taking everything from you and then some more. I am also a type 1 diabetic and have had three babies, that said the pregnancies were hell on earth, my blood sugar would drop from around 18.6 to 1.2 in two hours and I had the added complication of no warning signs. It is important to have good control during your pregnancy, but you must go back to the hospital and tell them you need help. That said, you could lower your basal insulin a bit and watch how it goes the next day, if you are still dropping too low, then you must lower the fast insulin before meals, even if only by a fraction. It's literally playing with the doses to get it right. Personally the hospital should be helping you with this especially as they will know that you can have severe hypos. It's a waste of time them being stroppy because they don't think you should have got pregnant because it won't change anything. Please try and talk to them and stress how you want to have a healthy baby and manage the diabetes so that you can avoid the hypo's, especially as they know you are going low at night. Like I said my pregnancies were hell and the hypos lasted the whole time, but generally it's only the first trimester that is bad. Don't feel bad because you're pregnant. You should enjoy it and look forward to being a family. Good luck, I hope you get the help you need. :clap: [/QUOTE]
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