Type 1 Too high

Hello folks,

I've been reading through this forum for a while for help and thought I would join to help educate myself further to help my wife

My wife is 5 weeks pregnant she has had type 1 for about 9 years and hasn't coped well she ignored her diabetes and I've known her to have highs upto 30+
She has reduced her levels since we got married however she struggles to get help and advice from doctors and nurses she has spent a long time igoring it and pretending she doesn't have it

I really hope someone can advice me so I can help her better, she takes 14 units of levemir before bed and 14 units in the morning she takes novorapid before meals she will go to bed with readings of 6 and wake up and they will be 8+ she eats at about 8pm and takes levemir and checks her levels at about 11pm

What I'm struggling with mainly is figuring out her highs when she is trying her best yesterday she ate at 8pm her levels prior to this 5.5 she had lamb and virtually no carbs, everything was weighed and total carbs where about 10 grams when she checked at 11 her levels where 11.4
She is going on a daphne course next week, i hope that helps us but I would love some help and advice now as I feel every minute is important for us

I forgot prior to dinner at 8 she had lunch at 12, her levels where 5.5 then when she checked at 8 they was 5.5 still I told her to eat something in between and not be fasting for 8 hours... however I'm not sure if that is correct as I don't understand why they are 5.5 and then high after she has eaten

Thank you for your replies

She's on 5mg folic acid from the hospital when that was finishing the doctor prescribed her 400mcg which you can actually just buy over the counter instead went to the first appointment at the hospital and they prescribed her 5mg again luckily she was still taking the 5mg one not the doctors lower dosage... controlling the basal rate is difficult because we can't seem to figure it out she has adjusted and then we are both getting upset when she eats and later it's much higher than what we calculated in the carbs.

I've asked her not to let herself be hungry and try to eat every 4 hours having breakfast and lunch and dinner and in between having low carb snacks every 4 hours, I'm not sure if that is the right advice. She is only in her 20s and this is our first ever baby so we are both desperate now to get this sorted

I've looked into buying her cgm system and I've made her an app on her phone to record what she's eating what her readings are and what her insulin intake is but it's confusing me why she is going high after meals with virtually no carbs or she is taking the required insulin and sometimes it brings it down sometimes it doesn't..