Fantastic about the folic acid...and the levels. Has your diabetic consultant introduced you to the "diabetic midwife", who, if your hospital has one, is an absolute must to go and see. If they haven't, its worth a look. It may be that your consultant does this job themselves...but in any case, you will probably need to go and see them every couple of weeks. As always though, this varies from person to person, and hospita to hospital. Being T1 on insulin, they and I tweak my dosage all teh time. A typical pattern...although by no means always teh case is that BG goes a bit crazy for teh first 12 weeks, and is often high (this was the case in my last pregnancy, but in this one, my BG levels crashed) I guess all I could say on this is that you can't stop what ever is causingthis "madness" but you can do your upmost to manage it, and treat it. Things are a bit calmer in the 2nd trimester..and then in the 3rd, most people BG (and if on insulin requirements) go up a lot. As I said, I spend a lot of time in teh anti natal clinic, waiting to see the diabetic consultant and teh Obsteitrician...and I sit in line with lots of other diabetic women, both T1, T2 and gestational. Some of the T2 are using insulin for the first time to manage their blood sugar...and basically I think the attitude is"do what you need to do" to control it. This must be so difficult, combined with the other delights of pregnancy, so I guess I am lucky in that it is no big shock to me. So, the short answer, I think to your question is yes, it is common to need more medication as you progress through pregnancy, but in my case at least, it was teh start of pregnancy that was teh most difficult to manage diabetes wise.
Testing in the middle ofthe night?? Well, I did at first, becasue my Bg was so erratic, but only do it now on a trip to the loo, if I am worried.
15 years gap! Wow! That must be lovely, although I guess that you are finding that things have changed in 15 years. My little one is 19 months old...so I have the opposite gap.
Again, huge congratulations...and apologies for not realising that your user name should really have told me whether you were T1 T2 or T1.5! Doh!
