The approach of being a mother with diabetes

Hello everyone, I would like to know your opinion and experiences (especially those that have been mothers being diabetic).

I am 33 years old, married for 2 years, and for the first time my husband and I are considering being parents, to the point that in my last review with the endocrine I told me and I have changed the treatment to start preparing my body for pregnancy, raising dose of insulin, adjusting the diet with the aim of lowering the glycosylated the maximum possible, since this last time I came out 6.8Gestation

The fact is that when I have explained the values ​​that I should have for a pregnancy I have taken my hands to my head, you have to reach a glycosylated below 6.5 (something that with a little more effort I think I can get without problem) but what has left me stunned is that the ideal range during the day had to be between 70 and 140, instead of 180 ... SHonestly, this seems frankly impossible to get, especially after a meal.

I am one of those who controls your diabetes and I have almost never had glycosylated above 7, but the peaks of the meals do not take them away from me, and after a meal never low from 160-170 (unless it does not eat any hydrates, which in a pregnancy does not think it is convenient).

This has led me to consider if it is a good idea to be a mother or throw in the towel, because if you already have a child it is a huge challenge and it is a great effort for any woman, if it will suppose this about effort in my illness having to go hungry and have stress and anxiety for not going from certain values, I want my desire, the truth.

I have put the sensor to control my levels 24h before looking for the Emabrazo and learning from my body, and I see impossible not to move from those ranges, in fact practically every day I pass from 140 at some point, go.

Anyway, if there is any mom among us who tells me how he did this because I see him unfeasible.

Thank you

@gala91, there is a topic in the forum on diabetes and pregnancy.

Before the sensors exist there were many diabetic mothers, and I imagine that much calmer.In pregnancy the doses of insulin vary greatly, so what they propose is not realistic. Another thing is that you try and approach.

Let's see if you find some mom here, there were several. And they all did very well, with much less means than now.

@gala91 said:

Hello everyone, I would like to know your opinion and experiences (especially those that have been mothers being diabetic).

I am 33 years old, married for 2 years, and for the first time my husband and I are considering being parents, to the point that in my last review with the endocrine I told me and I have changed the treatment to start preparing my body for pregnancy, raising dose of insulin, adjusting the diet with the aim of lowering the glycosylated the maximum possible, since this last time I came out 6.8Gestation

The fact is that when I have explained the values ​​that I should have for a pregnancy I have taken my hands to my head, you have to reach a glycosylated below 6.5 (something that with a little more effort I think I can get without problem) but what has left me stunned is that the ideal range during the day had to be between 70 and 140, instead of 180 ... SHonestly, this seems frankly impossible to get, especially after a meal.

I am one of those who controls your diabetes and I have almost never had glycosylated above 7, but the peaks of the meals do not take them away from me, and after a meal never low from 160-170 (unless it does not eat any hydrates, which in a pregnancy does not think it is convenient).

This has led me to consider if it is a good idea to be a mother or throw in the towel, because if you already have a child it is a huge challenge and it is a great effort for any woman, if it will suppose this about effort in my illness having to go hungry and have stress and anxiety for not going from certain values, I want my desire, the truth.

I have put the sensor to control my levels 24h before looking for the Emabrazo and learning from my body, and I see impossible not to move from those ranges, in fact practically every day I pass from 140 at some point, go.

Anyway, if there is any mom among us who tells me how he did this because I see him unfeasible.

Thank you

First tell you that this range is not impossible, in fact, it is true that it is recommended, we are obviously not machines and you can ever go wrong but the goal is that range most of the time possible.I currently have a 5.9 gyrus and I follow a low food in hydrates.Hydrates are practically in all foods, there are hydrates in vegetables and legumes, you don't have to eat paste or rice or potato that are high glycemic index and in pregnancy, where the limits are stricter, they will give you a large peak.You will have a good diet and balanced with meats, fish, vegetables, legumes, dairy, nuts etc, and it is not a problem.In fact diabetics that before pregnancy performed.Already a low diet in HC, during pregnancy they have continued to perform it and moreover, I know many cases of those, in which pregnancy has been at term (you know that many times they anticipate it) with a normal weight (you also know that they are usually of greater weight than usual) and vaginal births (due to weight often schedule caesarean section).

It all depends on each one, your evolution time, the existence or not on any complication, on the desire you have ... in short, it is your decision and a very personal issue.You can and in fact when you see the thread you will see it.And that range can be reached, it is not impossible.

During the first trimester the risk of hypoglycemia increases and insulin will lower you enough, but from the third quarter it is the opposite, they greatly increase insulin needs and you can even put the triple of what you normally put on, both basal and quickly.All of that is normal.You would have many reviews with the endocrine, baconologist and ophthalmologist.It is a pregnancy that is considered risky and that is why it is a team that takes you, but today, with the techniques there is, it does not have to be a problem and is at the level of a multiple pregnancy or with other pathologies.They may raise the pump because the control seems to be easier.

In my case I did not contemplate it for the years of evolution, my work and other personal issues and we decided not to do it but the endocrine encouraged me, yes, he told me that the better better so that the DB years did not continue to increase.

If you want and you feel, it is not an impediment, any pregnancy can be complicated unexpectedly and many times if you already control yourself before gestation, there may even be less paradoxically risk.But I already tell you that it is a very personal issue, you will have to be very aware of your controls and obviously, you will also have to work on the psychological aspect because it is 9 months with an important discipline and there is a risk of obsessing a lot.There is also the work aspect, there are women who take low or reduction of working hours because medical reviews are very frequent.

Decide what you decide will be the right thing.

Stop by the thread and you will have more first hand.

@Gala91 Pregnancy is a challenge.I did not get it, despite 14 years of fertility treatments.

The latter caught me already being type 1 diabetic, and yes, the endocrine changed the basal to a more tested for pregnancies and ranges to 70-130, although I had it from the debut to 80-140.

With low hydrates diet you can be in 90%rank, I have a glyc of 5.7 for 4 years, with the diet in low hydrates.

They are a few months of sacrifice but any mother will tell you that it is worth it.

Thanks for your answers!I will take an eye to find the other thread that you talk about maternity.

Regarding having values ​​between 70-140 I still look like a barbarity, since I debuted there has been no day that does not pass from 140 ... at least 150 yes I arrive after a meal even with zero hydrates.

My diet is low in hydrates, weight 49 kilos I have low body mass index for my height, only as hydrates from time to time and low glycemic index, that is, in my diet there are neither flour, rice, nor pasta, nor cereals, much less pastries or sweets, and I still see complicated not to pass 140.

Itself after exercising I get to 140-160, and exercise regularly.

Or when I am stressed, when the rule is coming, I also tend to have higher values ​​those days.

What I mean is that not everything depends on what we eat but that many times the increases are alien to us and occur for a thousand factors, and I fear that in my case they do not get the approval to seek pregnancy until it is always below 140 ...

My question is: still having controlled diabetes with glycosilada of less than 6.5 it may not be advisable to seek pregnancy if 140 sugar exceeds during the day?Or do these two requirements have to meet yes or yes?

@gala91 What your endocrine is looking for is that you are stable.If you manage to be without peaks, a long time, in 150 it will tell you that ok, but to be 110 you have many peaks, that affects gestation.

It is normal for you to have some peak greater than 140, what you have to get is that it does not rise.More insulin is the only thing.

I have my alarm at 115, to put more insulin in 125 or so, in this way I do not pass 140 most of the time, but if I also have peaks, especially now with menopause, that the medicine is water according to what days.

Good afternoon.

My sister.Diabetics with 3 years and a few months.2 daughters.Today, both (24 and 21 years old), without diabetes and my phenomenal sister.

"Simple" births.That they fell more than having to push to leave, come on.My sister like every diabetic, with her days (yes, those months of pregnancy was like never in glycemia; we told her jokingly that they were playing something inside, because almost all that period was, in the 2 pregnancies, which neither low of 90 nor step of150).And while my nieces grew, nothing special.Days like this and Aso days.The normal thing to whom it is diabetic.And without sensors.Salu2

@Ruthbia said:

@gala91 What your endocrine is looking for is that you are stable.If you manage to be without peaks, a long time, in 150 it will tell you that ok, but to be 110 you have many peaks, that affects gestation.

It is normal for you to have some peak greater than 140, what you have to get is that it does not rise.More insulin is the only thing.

I have my alarm at 115, to put more insulin in 125 or so, in this way I do not pass 140 most of the time, but if I also have peaks, especially now with menopause, that the medicine is water according to what days.

It is the first time I hear it!

[[ERROR-TRANS]]En mis años de evolución con diabetes siempre me han dicho que las correcciones me las realizase si tenía una hiperglucemia , y las que suelo hacer me las hago si sobre paso los 180, de ahí nunca dejo que suba…

But 125 is a very low value to make corrections, right?Your endocrine told you like that?And doing this do not have more hypoglycemia than normal?

Man, seen that, doing that yes more feasible not to exceed 140, but I get a lot of repair to make so much correction and as soon as ... taking into account that 125 after a meal is a great value that even a non -diabetic person perfectly has it.

Wow everything!

Hi! I have 4 healthy kids and have not had any problems in my pregnancies. During pregnancy you need to be really on top of all the changes in your insulin needs as they change fast. I got all my pregnancies with hbac1 less than 6,5%.

Having a target 70-140 should be the way to go for every diabetic person. That does not mean you can,t reach higher numbers in some cases. It can be done with a low carb diet ( no need to be keto) and a lot of knowledge of your diebetes. Some years after my pregnancies I start to eat low carb and I have had glyco of less than 5,6% for almost 10 years. Now with an insulin pump and diy closed loop pancreas I achieve that with less work. You can do that! No need to obseess with the 140. Nowadays and also during all of my pregnancies, I have bad days were my bg rises up to 200-250 due to catheter problems or some other things and were not a problem as they were not often.

@gala91 have never told me that being 180 is good.

They always told me 80-140, and not overcome 180 during digestion, in 2 hours it must go down to 140 or less.

I make corrections to 125 because insulin takes effect at 1.5 hours.If I am 230 and I corrected with 3 units, up to 90 minutes later I do not see that it starts to go down.I avoid getting so high because I stay but a long time above.

gala91 said:
@gala91 said:

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

@gala91 What your endocrine is looking for is that you are stable.If you manage to be without peaks, a long time, in 150 it will tell you that ok, but to be 110 you have many peaks, that affects gestation.

It is normal for you to have some peak greater than 140, what you have to get is that it does not rise.More insulin is the only thing.

I have my alarm at 115, to put more insulin in 125 or so, in this way I do not pass 140 most of the time, but if I also have peaks, especially now with menopause, that the medicine is water according to what days.

Hi Ruth, your answer has caught my attention a lot.To correct yourself if you go from 125 !!

It is the first time I hear it!

In my years of evolution with diabetes, I have always been told that the corrections were made to me if I had hyperglycemia, and the ones I usually do if about 180, from there I never let it go up ...

But 125 is a very low value to make corrections, right?Your endocrine told you like that?And doing this do not have more hypoglycemia than normal?

Man, seen that, doing that yes more feasible not to exceed 140, but I get a lot of repair to make so much correction and as soon as ... taking into account that 125 after a meal is a great value that even a non -diabetic person perfectly has it.

Wow everything!

A non -diabetic and non -obesa (eye) person, it is very rare that passes from 100 after a short time after food unless he has eaten very high in hydrates (a lot of rice, pasta, sweets etc), because his pancreas works well and immediately throws an insulin bolus as soon as he smell the food, even before starting to eat.My husband has made a strip after eating pasta or rice, at half an hour and was in 80.

In pregnancy the range is that, and even out of pregnancy would be desirable.

There are days but the general tonic must be that

And it is not impossible, in fact the pregnant women of the thread get it.And if not, then there is no other to corrected if you see that you are in 130 and climb.

gala91 said: