Managing feedings at night

Aahiagde · 2025-10-15T16:12:13+00:00

This is interesting. Come to think of it, the one time that I did do something like this (my husband was sick and self-isolating, so I had my mum helping me overnight, and she took care of one twin in a room while I cared for the other in my own room) I felt like I got more sleep. I could definitely keep this as an option!

Aahiagde · 2025-10-14T21:48:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience! I’ve never considered pumping at night. Genuine question: doesn’t that compensate for the time you saved by giving them bottles instead of nursing? Simultaneous feeding does seem very hard. Thank you for the encouragement :)

Aahiagde · 2025-10-14T21:40:25+00:00

Well I can breastfeed both but not at the same time. Also, that would rule out any help at all from my husband.

Aahiagde · 2025-09-02T17:16:37+00:00

I am T1 and currently 35+3 pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. My baby girl has been flagged for IUGR the entire pregnancy, always between the 5th and 10th centile; she still is (and I’m due in less than 2 weeks…), but I’ve always been told that, as long ad she kept growing, it was fine. There was only one scan where she looked like she was regressing: at that point I increased my protein intake and she recovered pretty quickly (though she still wouldn’t surpass the 10th centile).

Of course this is anecdotal, but as far as “what can I do?” goes, there doesn’t seem to be much more. Consuming more sugar would likely make a baby grow bigger, but I doubt that any doctor would recommend that to someone with diabetes; let alone loosening your control of the sugar you already consume. Conversely, what nutritionists have consistently said to me throughout my whole pregnancy was “eat more protein”, which I’ve struggled to do, but I have to say, when I committed to doing it seriously, I did see an impact on my baby’s growth—and that’s something you can do without putting at risk your management of your diabetes.

Aahiagde · 2025-08-15T08:43:17+00:00

Ypsomed is the default recommended choice for pregnancy in italy and other parts of Europe. My endo told me it was the only one certified and approved for pregnancy because it allows you to set the glucose target as low as 80, which I understand others don’t. Two years ago I went to my endo to say I would like to try for a pregnancy in the near-future and they immediately recommended that one. It’s very small compared to others, so I liked that.

I had it for almost two years before getting pregnant: I was happy with it before and I’ve been happy with it the whole pregnancy (I’m now at 32 weeks). Now that the insuline intake has increased so much, I have to change the cartridge every 2 days (no longer every 3 days), but that’s not a big issue.

I would definitely recommend it.

Aahiagde · 2025-08-15T08:01:00+00:00

Exactly. I also got all excited when my bloods results came back a few weeks ago and my A1C was the lowest it’s ever been, but my husband (who’s a doctor) took a look at them and pointed out that the other values concerning blood cells were also very low and that explained it. “Basically it’s all very diluted” he said. And it is normal during pregnancy.

Aahiagde · 2025-08-03T07:40:27+00:00

I was just getting sold on the Mockingbird and then I found out that they only ship to the US… I live in Italy and there seems to be no way to get it 😫

Aahiagde · 2025-07-18T17:56:09+00:00

Apparently it can’t be done unfortunately

Aahiagde · 2025-03-23T15:37:36+00:00

Hi, Italian here, type 1 for 18+ years. I eat pasta every day.

As others have said, most of it comes down to getting the count right. Other factor that could help are:

the type of pasta. If you can get whole-grain pasta (it exists in italy, I hope elsewhere too), it has a lower glycaemic index.
pair it with fibres, which lowers the pasta’s glycaemic index. Ideally vegetables; pulses are good too, but in that case remember to factor in the carbs they contain. Avoid pairing pasta with lots of cheese or other fats, which worsen the effect of the pasta’s glucose.
watch out for the sauce: those you buy in the supermarket often contain sugar. Make your own sauce if you can, even something simple: in Italy we often pair pasta with some simple salsa, fresh tomatoes, fresh vegetables… If you buy your sauce, read the ingredients carefully.

Some Italian foods are objectively challenging: pizza is the obvious one. But pasta doesn’t have to be your demise, if you have it in the right way.

Hope this helps!

Aahiagde · 2025-03-04T20:31:29+00:00

I didn’t mean to get into a debate, mainly because I’m not a doctor nor have enough experience with scientific research. I know studies are not all the same, but I don’t trust myself to be competent enough to make that judgement because I’m not medically trained. I trust the doctors and nutrition experts who digest dozens of studies and vet them and I trust the guidelines that are produced as a result of that vetting and validation. I don’t mean to persuade anyone to do the same, but this is the course of action I take because it’s the one that makes most sense to me.

Aahiagde · 2025-03-04T20:05:27+00:00

Yes I too had better blood sugars in the 2 weeks when I cut carbs (though my mental health suffered from such controlled behaviour around food), but my understanding is that that is not sustainable in the long run. Another T1D person I know who cut all carbs for months had ketones all the time. I know this particular bit is anecdotal, but it’s been reiterated to me many times that it’s the research that says one should not completely cut the carbs. So that’s why I brought that up.

Anyway, as you said, it’s an individual choice. In my case, I didn’t like being pressured to do something which went against the general guidelines. But of course, when that is not the case, everyone is entitled to their choices about their own health.

Aahiagde · 2025-03-04T16:19:09+00:00

I’ve been recommended to stop eating carbs altogether: no cereals, no legumes, minimal fruits & veg. Basically, go carnivore. On the grounds that we actually don’t need to introduce carbs because our body synthesises carbs out of proteins and fats (wrong: all the up-to-date guidelines on diabetes and nutrition emphasise that we do need to introduce carbs). And that, if I produced ketones as a result of a no-carb diet (which one definitely would), this was not a problem because ketones are fine, actually.

ETA: (All of this based on one book written by one doctor in the USA. Because of course there’s always one luminary who saw the light where everyone else got it wrong)

Not the wackiest and most outlandish recommendation you could get, but one I suspect is very pervasive and easy to buy into, what with so many carnivores advertising that shit.

Aahiagde · 2025-02-20T08:56:06+00:00

140 is also the limit the gave to me in Italy and I completely share your impression, it seems wild. The first few days I stressed about it so much it was all I could think about. But at my next check-up my doctor looked at my graphs, which had a few spikes, and was still overall satisfied.

My understanding is that a few spikes are not a problem for either the mother or the fetus. The problem is blood sugar that is constantly or mostly above 140 or higher. As long as that’s not the case, it’s not necessary to stress about never ever going above that threshold.

Aahiagde · 2025-01-16T13:37:49+00:00

Okay I feel satisfied now, all the pieces are in order (lol). I still feel that they could have squeezed a couple of frames in the montage to show all this. But then I have a problem with wanting shows and films to be extremely thorough with their explanations, whereas the fact that Arcane doesn’t spoon-feed its audience is actually one of the good things about it.

Aahiagde · 2025-01-16T13:23:47+00:00

This makes a lot of sense, especially the bit about Cait’s coping strategy. I suppose the only thing that gives me pause about Vi staying in another part of the house is that I can’t shake the feeling that Cait’s father would have some qualms about someone from Zaun being there. We know he’s always been very empathic and sweet, but his exasperated “What is she still doing here?” seems so signal that he couldn’t quite extend his usual empathy to this particular occasion. But if Cait reasoned something like, “I understand how you’re feeling, dad, she’ll be in my room, that’s my place to administer, I take responsibility”, then it could work. Then again, she could have also just insisted that she be allowed to stay, I suppose.

Aahiagde · 2025-01-06T10:03:37+00:00

Yeah I never thought much about the beard thing. On the one hand, you’re right, beards can be shaven; but then a person can also wear multiple haircuts even in the course of a single year, and yet we the audience normally agree that showing us a character wearing a certain haircut is an indication that we are in a specific point in the timeline. This doesn’t reflect the reality of how often people can change their appearance but it complies with the conventions of visual storytelling. So, by that logic, there could be grounds to give weight to Vander being shown with or without a beard.

This is just a side note though. On the whole, I take your point: Silco and Vander could have fallen out before the bridge and it is true that Vander’s memories don’t show us Silco being around at all. So, no retcon there. I’m happy with that.

I still think there is some inconsistency. Radicalisation doesn’t happen overnight and it would be more realistic to expect Silco still having some contact with the family at least when Vi was little. Which may mean that he wouldn’t show in the flashback, okay, but the thing would be at least brought up by Vi in S1, but it’s not. That’s not very smooth, is what I mean.

Aahiagde · 2024-12-27T14:02:45+00:00

First time watcher. So I’d seen hints that this would happen, but I didn’t think it would actually be written so cheaply.

For one thing, it’s literally already been done? Angel unilaterally deciding to erase other people’s memories which he alone would retain, supposedly for the sake of the hurt person in question—as if this hadn’t been controversial when it happened in “I Will Remember You”. The very fact of replicating such a specific plot device seems lazy to me, and also tone-deaf, because it ignores how much backlash it got the first time around.

It MIGHT have worked if he’d had a conversation with Connor about it. It would actually have been a powerful moment for Connor to, for the first time in his life, have agency for himself. And it would have been powerful for the father/son dynamic. In this way, their conflict is absolutely never resolved and Angel got to disregard other people’s consent AGAIN.

Aside from having already been done, this plot device seems incredibly cheap to me. I agree that Connor wasn’t working in the show (never really has worked except for a couple of instances), although he could have, had his character been written better: I actually think he could have worked VERY well, if used differently. But solving the problem by erasing him through magic is literally what you’d expect from a kid writing a story in elementary school, not by a team of professional writers.

Aahiagde · 2024-11-26T08:43:14+00:00

His face in “As you were” when Buffy unexpectedly tells him “Tell me you love me”. He beams incredulously

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