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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1693825" data-attributes="member: 372717">Look, I understand your fear.  Every time my kids were extra thirsty I would test their urine for sugar (working on the principal that a blood sugar of over 10 would put sugar in their urine and still be an early diagnosis). My mother was T1 (no other previous family history) and I am T1 (age 8) so unlike her very late diagnosis I had an extremely early one and lots of help with diabetes as I grew up. So yes, your son/future children are more likely to become T1 than a child with no family history, but it's not a death sentence and treatment for future T1s improves all the time. (I gave up on a "cure" years ago but for new young T1s...?)  Would you rather have not been born than have diabetes?  I certainly wouldn't. I see many friends and acquaintances that enjoy life with illnesses much worse than diabetes. My kids are 22 and 26, so may still acquire T1. If they do I'll be sad, maybe feel guilty (?), but there are so many imponderables in life that you can't predict, that raising the risk factor for one disease over many others doesn't seem that significant.Love your son, enjoy your time with him, with or without diabetes (hopefully without).  Remember that even  if he does get T1 he'll be diagnosed really early and have the best help with control of the disease.</blockquote>

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