I've been a type 1 diabetic since I was 11 yrs old. I am now in my late 30's and now have 2 beautiful children aged 6 and 3. My first pregnancy was difficult with 2 coma's in the 1st trimester due to no hypo warnings. I think I was trying so hard to have good sugar control I was not allowing for pre meal dips in sugar levels. The best thing to do it test, test and test your sugar many times a day (without being too obsessive about it).
Unfortunately my first child was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect at the 20 week scan. These conditions are more common with diabetics which is why they do a special heart scan of the baby at 20 weeks. He is now 6 years old and has had his corrective heart surgery and is healthy and strong, but the reason he developed this condition is my poor sugar control in the first few weeks of pregnancy (before I was aware I was pregnant). My advise to any type 1 diabetic who is planning to get pregnant is to try to get good sugar control before you are pregnant and continue with this for the whole pregnancy.
My second pregnancy was so much easier as my sugar control was better in the early stages of pregnancy and my daughter is healthy. We can have beautifully healthy children, we just need to look after our diabetes during the whole pregnancy
Unfortunately my first child was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect at the 20 week scan. These conditions are more common with diabetics which is why they do a special heart scan of the baby at 20 weeks. He is now 6 years old and has had his corrective heart surgery and is healthy and strong, but the reason he developed this condition is my poor sugar control in the first few weeks of pregnancy (before I was aware I was pregnant). My advise to any type 1 diabetic who is planning to get pregnant is to try to get good sugar control before you are pregnant and continue with this for the whole pregnancy.
My second pregnancy was so much easier as my sugar control was better in the early stages of pregnancy and my daughter is healthy. We can have beautifully healthy children, we just need to look after our diabetes during the whole pregnancy