Son starting school in a few weeks

Hi! Im kind of in the same boat as you. My 2 year old was diagosed in june after just starting playgroup. He is due to start back again when term starts, but I and the diabetes nurse need to meet with the leaders first to see if they will take the responsibilty of testing him. Its only 2 hours, so shouldnt need to have insulin while there, but I know that that will be an issue in school and I will be going in to give him that when he does start. Is there a teacher doing your sons insulin or will you be going in? Its scary having to let them go on their own, Im a little apprehensive in case they dont watch him carefully, but hopefully it will be ok! Will the teacher also be doing his bm while there? Good luck and hope it all goes well for him.
Emma

Hi
I was diagnosed a type 1 at the age of six and have been diabetic for 36yrs. I can't see their should be a problem with the school helping out once you have discussed it with them or even gone in and showed them how it all works. I would encourage your son to try doing a blood test a couple of times with you watching him. I know they are young but as soon as they are old enough i would draw their insulin ready and let them try doing in with you guiding them.
AS my friends niece at the age of 15yrs old still can't or won't do her own injection ( we think the mother is putting her off) and i strongly believe the sooner they can the better for you.
I hope all goes well as i would be very interested how you get on with the school, as i am interested with working with juvernile diabetic

If someone can be appointed to look after your son and then have some back-up people for times when that person is away you should find your son to be well looked after at school. My son attends a daycare centre 2 days a week and I go and do his insulin at lunch but the teacher will do a bsl at morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. I carb count so as long as he has the right amount of carbs at each meal everything seems to work out pretty well. He's only had 2 hypos (nothing serious) at daycare (just before meal times) in the nearly 2 years he has been there. I have a 'Hypo Action Plan' in my sons bag, with his meter and on the wall of the room. There is a range of hypo treatments in his bag and I regularly go through the glucogen pen procedure using an expired kit to practice.

Hope everything goes well with the meeting with the school. Do you know if they have any experience with diabetes at the school? We are not alone!

I test Khaleb before meals and about 2 hours after, before I go to bed and depending on what that one was I might also test in the wee hours of the morning. I will sometimes miss the odd test here and there if I need to give him a meal/snack early because of some appointment or activity.

With injections I used to go in every lunchtime to do them. Jess wasn't allowed to do them herself at school as we had difficult getting staff to take on the responsibility as they were on a lunchtime rota and not all the staff were willing. She wasn't allowed to self inject unsupervised. Once she went onto the pump and lots of reassurance was given by myself and the DSN that has improved and now I no longer need to visit each lunchtime. Finger prick testing the school were happy to take on from the start but it wasn't long before Jess could do that by herself anyway. The only test she does at school now is before lunch unless she's feeling unwell or hypo at any point during the day. On PE days she also does a test before and after PE. Some school trips will require more testing, particularly those that involve lots of walking. If she's attending an after school club then she'll do a test at the end of the school day before the club starts, we usually test after school if she's coming home rather than doing a club or sport so that's a routine test for her. So her testing is like this: before breakfast, before lunch, after school, before evening meal, before bedtime.