Pregnancy with Type 1 diabetes – the summary.

20 December 2009
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Hi all

Just for those of you who want to find all the posts I did on pregnancy with type 1 diabetes in one place, here you go:

1. Confessions of a pregnant diabetic

2. Things I’ve learnt about having T1 and being pregnant

3. Double trouble – being both pregnant and a T1

4. 27 week update

5. Increasing insulin resistance

6. 28 weeks and baby on the large side

7. 34 weeks

8.…

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By Nic on 20 December 2009 at 12.21 pm
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The Mama diaries.

7 December 2009
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I went to my final appointment at National Women’s today (they see you sometime after six weeks has gone by since the birth of your baby) and I thought it was about time I wrapped up my journey through this pregnancy on the blog as well. The appointment itself was pretty uneventful: the midwife just went through all my latest blood test results with me, and the physician just had a quick look at my latest blood sugars and discussed my plans going forward. It was really quite sad to be saying farewell to all of the lovely staff up there – for now. I have been in their care since August 2008 and have learnt more in that 15…

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By Nic on 7 December 2009 at 4.07 pm
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Gratuitous.

14 November 2009
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Hi all

A bit of an apology from me for my (probably notable) absence from the blog of late… who knew this child-rearing lark could be so time-consuming?! I think the child-wrangling part of it is doable within the hours of the day, but because my boy is so shiny and new I’ve been having visitors almost every day (trying to keep it to just one lot of visitors a day), which takes up the spare time I would otherwise be able to use to do research and blogging. So, a big thanks once again to Aaron for keeping the home fires burning. I’ve not forgotten you all, nor lost any passion for writing the blog, I just need to…

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By Nic on 14 November 2009 at 11.47 am
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Is your baby diabetic?

5 November 2009
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I know… people are only being interested and I’m sure it’s a pretty valid question, but if I can have a little moan for a minute (hey, I’m only getting four or five hours sleep a night ), I have to say I’m getting pretty sick of this question.

My standard response is “no, not yet that we know of, but he could get it at 3, 14, 28 or 50 years of age as could any of us” and then I rattle off the stats. Stats as follows:

General population: 0.4%
Paternal offspring: 6-9%
Maternal offspring: 1-4%
Siblings: 5-6%
HLA-identical siblings: 16%
Identical twins (if one twin has T1): 33-50%

Thus, my baby has a 1-4% chance of getting

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By Nic on 5 November 2009 at 5.47 pm
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My type 1 diabetes pregnancy: 36 weeks to birth in 48 hours.

28 October 2009
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Well, I set out to document my entire pregnancy, so here I go in finishing it off…

In my final update before giving birth to my son, Hugo (first bath pic, left), I was typing as I was about to head out the door to be admitted to hospital. The general story goes something like this:

I went in for 36 week scan two Mondays ago (the 12th) and my blood tests indicated my platelets had dropped to concerning levels (they were already keeping a close eye on them after they’d been dropping the week before) plus blood pressure and swelling up, insulin needs down, all in their own way highlighting…

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By Nic on 28 October 2009 at 10.09 am
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