Hi
@tbeigle and welcome to the forum.
If your daughter had been born with diabetes then it would have been classified as neonatal diabetes. Type1 does not affect babies under 6 months.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to...es/Other-types-of-diabetes/Neonatal-diabetes/
People of all ages can be diagnosed with Type1 diabetes and there is a risk if the mother is a Type1.
- The risk for a child of a parent with type 1 diabetes is lower if it is the mother — rather than the father — who has diabetes. "If the father has it, the risk is about 1 in 10 (10 percent) that his child will develop type 1 diabetes — the same as the risk to a sibling of an affected child," Dr. Warram says. On the other hand, if the mother has type 1 diabetes and is age 25 or younger when the child is born, the risk is reduced to 1 in 25 (4 percent) and if the mother is over age 25, the risk drops to 1 in 100 — virtually the same as the average American.
- If one of the parents developed type 1 diabetes before age 11, their child's risk of developing type 1 diabetes is somewhat higher than these figures and lower if the parent was diagnosed after their 11th birthday.
- http://www.joslin.org/info/genetics_and_diabetes.html
As to traits, are we talking about personality and appearance? If so there is nothing specific to a diabetic.