Tight control when pregnant - Type 2

[elaineste]

Can I ask why type twos have to have such tight control when pregnant?

I'm currently 34 and half weeks pregnant and test four times a day before meals and at bed and been told I have to keep it between 3.5 and 6. Which in all honesty is and nd bear impossible task especially when all you want to do ins eat

Plus if I go below 5 I feel like I'm having a hypo5

 

[ButtterflyLady]

Bump... from someone without one

 

[4ratbags]

It is most probably to avoid any complications but it does seem to be a very restrictive window in which you have to try and stick between.

 

[RuthW]

It's to prevent damage to the baby, not to you, quite honestly. Don't worry. You haven't got too long to go now!

 

[Yuste]

I've been told to keep sugar levels from 4 to 7-8. It was hard being type 1. But most of the time possible. I was checking minimum 7 times a day though. Before and after meals, before bed and when I wake up. If sugar was higher than norm, I checked again in an hour or two (after taking extra insulin).