Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Jayd, Good luck and I hope all goes well. Just curious, what is the chances of the baby being born with diabetes with you already having it? > It must be the day for test results.... > > My A1c is down from 5.8 last visit to 5.6 this time - and there was a > reduction in meds at my last visit too! > > I spoke to the doc about hubby and my decision to try to have a baby > and she is meeting with me next week with a stack of info on it. I > will also need to start insulin next week so that when I become > pregnant I won't need to come off meds and go on insulin then. > > Wish me luck! > > ~Jayd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 In a message dated 1/23/2004 3:35:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, artemis_rat@... writes: My A1c is down from 5.8 last visit to 5.6 this time - and there was a reduction in meds at my last visit too! Hi Jayd, You are doing great. hugs Eunice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 Just curious, what is the > chances of the baby being born with diabetes with you already having it? Thanks for the well wishes. I read on the ADA site (I think) that if the Mother is under 25 there is a 25% greater chance of the baby being diabetic, but if the Mother is over 25 then there is the same chance as for a non-diabetic Mother. ??Didn't make any sense to me, but I'm 28 so everything should be okay. Apparently, because I am Type 2, what they will do is have me take insulin, but no oral meds. I asked my doc about this because I know that I make my own insulin, just can't use it properly. I asked her how more insulin injected would help. She said that if I have much more insulin in my body that I will be able to process more of it in total, although the percentage of insulin I can process stays the same. This means that as soon as the baby is born, they will have to have insulin injected to start with and then get weaned off. Because I will have high amounts of insulin, the baby will be used to high amounts and will go hyperglycemic as soon as the higher amounts are not available. Doc says that this doesn't do damage to the baby's pancreas... There isn't much info on the web for people who are already diabetic and pregnant, every search shows gestational diabetes which isn't the same. ~ Jayd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 > >This means that as soon as the baby is born, they will have >to have insulin injected to start with and then get weaned off. >Because I will have high amounts of insulin, the baby will be used to >high amounts and will go hyperglycemic as soon as the higher amounts >are not available. Interesting. I became T1 during my pregnancy in 1979 and they looked for just the opposite in my newborn. Since I was a T1 and made no insulin of my own, the baby was accustomed to higher-than-normal bg levels in my system and thus produced more natural insulin of its own to compensate. Since the baby made higher amounts of insulin towards the end of the pregnancy, she actually contributed some of that extra back to me (via umbilical cord) and I needed less insulin at the end than earlier. As a result, the newborn was put in an incubator immediately after birth so they could watch for hypoglycemia (since she was used to producing more insulin to compensate for high bg's and would suddenly - at birth - not have the high bg around her to compensate for anymore). They had worried needlessly, the baby's system adjusted immediately, and everything was " normal " from the beginning. That baby just turned 24 and has shown no signs of diabetes to date. Sandy T1 - 1979 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 > I became T1 during my pregnancy in 1979 and they looked for just the opposite in my newborn. Right, that makes sense too the way you described it! The way it was described to me was that although my cells are resistant to insulin, baby's would not be so baby would use more of the available insulin and be more used to higher insulin levels... But if we share the same blood... I have another appointment with my doc on Monday so I will ask her to explain. Thanks for giving me something to think about! ~ Jayd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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