Diabetes Care Decisions
I’ve been going to the same diabetes centre for almost 12 years. I transferred there as a twenty year old student when I hit a brick wall with my previous doctors about transitioning to a pump. They...
View ArticleHard Work
I’m now 22 weeks pregnant and we’re definitely more than half way through this amazing journey to meet our baby. I’m not sure if any of what I’ve written and shared here is really doing the journey any...
View ArticleSurprise Scan
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a good while booking in all my remaining antenatal appointments and growth scans, of which there are a scary number. Women with diabetes are offered extra scans both to...
View ArticleThirty Two
Thirty-two weeks pregnant. Holy cow, I’m getting close to the finish line – four fifths done. And holy cow, I’m getting big. I can’t remember what my feet look like and putting shoes on is a massive...
View ArticleWaiting
You could look at pregnancy as one big long waiting period. You wait for the positive test. You wait for your first scan, and then the second. You wait, patiently or not, for the arrival of the little...
View Article36 Week Appointment
I don’t feel like things went very well at the hospital this morning. Maybe my expectations are out of whack, or maybe it’s just all the hormones, but yet again there were a lot of tears. Things didn’t...
View ArticleMeh
Things went much better at the hospital today than two weeks ago. I think perhaps I did succeed in making my point after all, and that standing up for what I believe in may have paid off. I certainly...
View ArticleMaternity Day Assessment Unit
The MDAU is a slightly frustrating place. Despite any images its name may conjure up, it’s really just a group of four rooms and a waiting area located next to the antenatal ward and labour triage....
View ArticleTop Tips For A Diabetic Pregnancy
Plan – Going in to pregnancy with more than 3 months of folic acid behind me and an excellent A1c made the early weeks much less stressful for me than I think they may otherwise have been. Aside from...
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The Fork in the Road
Thursday was D-Day. Decision Day. Commit to another course of IVF? Or not? Which way to go? It seems a bit daft, writing it now, to exclaim that my choice about whether we move forward with more...
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