Return of the night spikes.

11 March 2010
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The great thing about being pregnant most of last year was that the dreaded overnight BG spikes I was struggling with (which lead me to getting on the pump in the first place) disappeared. I’m not sure it was a complete win, because with all of the other pregnancy stuff all of the rest of your blood sugars go haywire… but I have to say – there is something doubly frustrating about going to bed with a perfect BG and waking up in the morning with a sky-high one. It just seems really unfair. During the day if you have a crazy spike you often blame it on food, exercise or stress (rightly or wrongly) – but I just get…

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By Nic on 11 March 2010 at 6.44 am
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Are you TRYING to wind me up?!!

22 January 2010
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Grrrr – and breathe.

I’ve just come back from a diabetes check up at my GP’s.

Aaaand breathe.

You see – when I took my son in for his six week vaccinations, they decided to corner me about not having seen the diabetes nurse at the clinic for over a year.

“Ahhhh”, I said. “That would be because I’ve been under the care of the diabetes department at National Women’s for the last 16 months”.

“Well”, they said. “We need you to come in and we’ll go through a checklist of all of your vital tests etc and check that your diabetes is under control”.

Me: “Oh, but you see I’ve been under the strictest care I’ve had in 15…

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By Nic on 22 January 2010 at 10.06 am
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Back on track.

8 January 2010
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I dusted off my BG record-keeping sheets today, determined to write down some numbers for a whole week and stay on top of basal rates, carb ratios, correction factors etc. That’s the thing with pumping – if only you could put in the hard work at the very beginning then sit with those ratios for all time – not so! I always knew I’d probably slacken off a bit after about 16 months of hard yakka and conscientious monitoring and record-keeping over my pregnancy and beforehand. Heck, I reckon I deserved the break. But, it’s now 12 weeks after my baby was born and I’m determined to put some systems in place to make sure I keep up a good…

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By Nic on 8 January 2010 at 9.40 am
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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.

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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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