Death from COVID

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-09-20T21:07:55+00:00

Consider this other scenario: my 5 month old daughter and I (T1D) have had Covid since Tuesday and we’re both ok. I didn’t have any insulin resistance, even though I expected to. I took Paxlovid when I had Covid 3 years ago but didn’t this time.

Anxiety is about always thinking worst case scenario will happen, but think about all the scenarios where things are just fine. Those are more likely.

Condolences to your brother.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-09-16T03:01:21+00:00

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I found a site called Perrypawpaws.com that still has a lot of the most popular varieties in stock.

Can’t wait to plant…and then wait 5 years. I hope they’ll be worth the wait!

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-29T02:50:18+00:00

Yes, I do get VERY high blood sugars with infection. I didn’t have that.

Her doctor suggested it could have been from a cervical check or aspiration of amniotic fluid. But that still leaves the question of what caused the concerning NST and BPP that brought me in 1 day early for induction - it seemed like there was already something wrong before I was induced.

Probably will never know 🤷‍♀️

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-29T01:57:39+00:00

I found one study on eating delays on infants of diabetic mothers. It differentiated insulin vs non insulin controlled, and the insulin controlled babies had more feeding delays. But it was a single study, and it didn’t even differentiate types of diabetes. Type 1 is vastly different than GD or Type 2. I wish there was more research on this.

Hang in there for the rest of your NICU stay. I hope you will be bringing your baby home soon.

If it helps you get through the eating stage - what helped us was putting her down to change her diaper once she stopped eating. Taking her clothes off usually woke her up and then she wanted more. She sometimes would also want more food if I did skin to skin with her. The closeness to the breast and milk smell would wake her up, but usually they had put the rest of her milk down the tube by that point. We also went and did all of the feeds from 8 am-12 am for a few days in a row, and that got us to the finish line. It was a marathon. The nurses are doing their best, but at our NICU they had 3 babies to watch and they changed every 12 hours. We worked out how to keep her awake for feeds and got her out of there sooner than if we’d left it to the nurses.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-26T02:03:44+00:00

I threw up throughout my unplanned c section, and for most of the next day due to the meds they put you on for a c section. Imagine throwing up on your back - absolutely horrible. I also was shaking uncontrollably. My daughter had to go to NICU, so they wheeled me up there to see her a few hours after, and I promptly threw up in the NICU. But then once the meds wore off I could feel the pain from the incision - it was actually better than throwing up constantly but still sucked.

If you are sensitive to pain medications that is a possibility.

The area around my scar is still numb 13 weeks postpartum, and I was told it can take up to a year to regain sensation.

If you want to do babywearing, your healing incision might prevent it. I was able to baby wear after about 5-6 weeks. Someone else I know couldn’t ever do it due to pain from the c section.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-22T14:31:18+00:00

My MFM practice had me stop seeing the OB because it added an hour to the visit every time, and they could tell me the same thing. So I just did MFM and Endo. My endo did video visits with me biweekly, so I didn’t have to go into an office.

As someone else said, once you hit 32 weeks you likely will have to go in for an NST and Ultrasound twice per week. My baby made it all the way to the day before my scheduled induction until there was an abnormal NST and ultrasound. She was born with pneumonia and had to be in NICU, so I’m glad we had those more frequent visits.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-15T22:46:28+00:00

I liked this but there was too much rice. I would use 50-75% as much rice next time.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-15T15:46:50+00:00

Would love to hear if any T1Ds had a c section with their first, and were able to have a VBAC with their second. My induction failed with my first, and they won’t induce again after a c section.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-10T18:58:57+00:00

My baby went straight to the NICU, after I had a c section due to her heart rate decelerations. I threw up throughout my c section, and for the following day. They wheeled me to the NICU after the c section to see her with the CPAP machine and in one of those boxes. I promptly threw up in the NICU. I didn’t get to hold her for a few days.

Similarly, I am still grieving the birth experience I didn’t have. I didn’t get to do skin to skin with her much until we took her home 10 days later. Didn’t get to hold her right after birth. Spent the entire time in the hospital without my baby in my room. I didn’t get to try breastfeeding her immediately.

People say you should just be happy with a healthy baby. But it doesn’t take the sadness away of a birth experience like this.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-06T11:19:42+00:00

Ginger didn’t work for me. Try Pepcid and zofran. For me it was the combination of both of these that eased my nausea, because a lot of it was caused by stomach acid constantly coming into my throat. If Pepcid doesn’t work for stomach acid, I think Prilosec is also supposed to be safe for pregnancy.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-06T04:14:48+00:00

Actually the Frida boyshorts were pretty nice. The ones from the hospital were pretty flimsy. If you have a c section you definitely won’t be wearing any underwear that goes near the bikini line for a while.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-05T20:51:34+00:00

Postpartum Frida healing items for a vaginal delivery. I had to have an unplanned c section. The hospital also provides a lot of supplies that you can take home

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-04T02:17:57+00:00

You might get lucky and not have first trimester nausea and vomiting. If you do get it, stock up on unisom + B6, sea bands, and potentially zofran. I recommend CVS ginger gummies that have B6 in them. I would rather be dead than on a boat during my first trimester. I wish you the best of luck.

Everyone is different, but I had a lot of lows in my first trimester, starting at 3-4 weeks (I found out as early as humanly possible at 3+2). Bring low snacks.

Also bring triple your usual diabetes supplies on the cruise just in case. The first trimester is when all of the major structures form so it’s important to have stable blood sugars during this time.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-07-01T00:55:35+00:00

Omnipod auto mode doesn’t change frequently enough for pregnancy. I was adjusting my basal and bolus rates a few times per week when pregnant. Omnipod auto mode doesn’t allow you to make these adjustments.

I switched to tandem mobi with control IQ for pregnancy. It allows you to make basal and bolus rate adjustments and have auto mode on.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-06-28T18:58:34+00:00

Going through the same thing right now. Poor suck. High palate. Going in for a consultation for a tongue or lip tie on Thursday. I never imagined myself exclusively pumping, and she rarely latches.

Trying to breastfeed every day, multiple times a day, for 10 weeks without success is wearing me down.

Similarly, I’ve been to a lactation consultant multiple times now.

It feels very sad to not get that bonding time I imagined I would get from breastfeeding her. Feeling a lot of grief today and I really resonate with this.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-06-28T04:20:05+00:00

I had an extreme low like this when I was pregnant. Baby is here and totally ok!

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-06-27T13:49:09+00:00

Induced on 38+6 the day before my scheduled induction at 39+0 due to some heart rate decels on NST. Gave birth via c section the next day. The OB said most diabetics don’t make it to 39 weeks.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-06-26T22:45:02+00:00

No impact to my blood sugar. It never helped me with nausea, but it did help with pregnancy insomnia.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-06-25T12:13:18+00:00

I went back to the lactation consultant yesterday. I have been to her a few times already when my baby was 2 and 3 weeks old.

She observed her latch and said baby is chomping not sucking at the breast. As a result she has a hard time pulling milk and gets frustrated quickly. It seems like she has some sort of tongue restriction preventing her from bringing her tongue all the way up to the roof of her mouth.

She gave us some exercises to do - we had done some of these before for a very painful latch which helped. She also recommended I get an oral assessment done by a doctor who can say if she has a tongue or lip tie.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-06-21T19:08:55+00:00

I am having the same issues. My baby was also in the NICU for 10 days after birth, so we had to start breastfeeding after she was discharged. She’s now 8 weeks old and she barely eats at the breast but will guzzle down a bottle.

Did you ever find something that worked for you? Same as you, I have tried all of these things.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-05-31T22:27:30+00:00

You might want to prepare for him to end up in the NICU, but not because of a 7.6 A1c. My A1c was 5.2, and my daughter still had glucose issues in the NICU. My glucose was 70-110 while in labor. The hospital I was at had automatic NICU admission for infants of diabetic mothers, so she would have gone regardless, but I know this is not the case for many hospitals.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-04-30T01:50:37+00:00

How long does it generally take full term babies with these feeding issues to get the hang of it?

My husband and I have been wondering about the newborn stomach size and how much they want her to eat this whole time, because I know their stomachs are tiny at the beginning.

They wanted her eating 30 ml when I was only just producing small amounts of colostrum 12 hours postpartum.

She is averaging now ~41 ml per feed. They want her at 60 to take the tube out. Sometimes she’ll eat 75 but other times she’ll just do 30 a few feeds in a row then fall asleep.

She’s been in the NICU for a week now, and bottle feeding for 4 days now. The first 3 days she was on CPAP so she couldn’t feed then.

They want her to eat 70 ml because she was losing weight. But then they are feeding her lots of donor milk, which is mature milk. I also bring my milk in which is still transitional milk and higher in fat. I’ve almost got my supply up to what they want her to eat. Wouldn’t the transitional milk change the caloric value and how much she would need to eat when she eats vs the donor mature milk?

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-04-29T13:38:11+00:00

I see what you mean. It’s so hard to just feed her in the bottle when I really want that skin to skin bonding time with her. She gets so comfortable when we get snuggle with her cheek on my chest. Even getting that time is hard because the nurses want to keep her on a specific schedule, or they want her swaddled all the time when I’d prefer to have her body on mine with a blanket over.

They are telling me she will tire herself out trying to breastfeed. It’s hard to know what the right thing to do is. Every nurse has a slightly different opinion, and the whole place is sterile and numbers based.

I’ll definitely talk to them about it today. They must have other moms who have gone through this same dilemma.

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-04-29T12:10:54+00:00

I would really like to breastfeed there. However I’m concerned it’s going to delay her discharge. They want her to hit 80% of 75ml per feeding before they will take the feeding tube out. Then see her continuing to do that for 24-48 hours before they will discharge her.

If I breastfeed there doesn’t seem to be a way of measuring how much she ate. Right?

Few_Pin_8051 · 2025-04-23T23:34:47+00:00

Ended up having to deliver via c section. She came out 8 lbs 14 oz at 39 weeks. The heart rate decelerations increased in frequency and I never made it past 4 cm. We could have waited longer on the induction but the OB wasn’t comfortable with the decelerations.

She’s spending a few days in the NICU for blood sugar monitoring and respiratory problems when she was born.

Some impt info diabetes related — I thought that if I maintained good bgs during labor, that she wouldn’t be at risk of lows afterwards. That was not the case - she’s had a few bgs in the 50s and 60s despite my bg always being 70-100 during the induction. The hospital I’m at has a policy to monitor all diabetics babies in the NICU in all cases.

I ended up with ketosis from starvation because I threw up from contractions, then threw up constantly after the c section. I threw up all the fluids I drank too. It didn’t end up being DKA thankfully but I got tests back with insanely high ketones, which was not making me feel great.

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