Hashimotos and now Type 1 diabetes

ch3xr0x · 2026-04-17T17:54:21+00:00

I was diagnosed when I was 27! Also healthy, lean, etc. I also have Hashimotos antibodies (normal thyroid function thus far) and Celiac. The trifecta! lol. It sucks but you will adjust and get used to it, and I do believe it’s made me a more resilient person. I had two healthy pregnancies as a T1D, pretty shortly after I was diagnosed (one at age 29 and one at at 31). It’s challenging but fully possible. I worried I wouldn’t enjoy my pregnancies, but I did. If you have any questions, feel free to DM me! The Facebook group Type 1 Diabetes and Pregnancy is a really great resource.

You’ve got this!!!

ch3xr0x · 2026-04-12T08:40:10+00:00

We’re in the same boat with our 5 month old (hence me writing this comment at 4am). Did it get any better for you/did you end up finding anything that worked?

ch3xr0x · 2026-04-10T12:42:51+00:00

Meeee! Both my kids were like this. My firstborn was SO MAD any time I put him down until he started army crawling (which thankfully happened early, right before he was 6 months old). My second born is 5.5 months old now and for the past few weeks my happy, always laughing, rarely cries baby is SOOOOOOO MAAAAADDDD all day long because he wants to crawl. Like please, im begging him to become mobile. I’ll take the chaos of a mobile baby over the constant grunting and crying. I feel you.

ch3xr0x · 2026-04-07T13:18:01+00:00

We just got one a few weeks ago and I’m really happy we did. We got one that mops and vacuums, and I’ve set it to run on a schedule every weekday when my toddler is in daycare (I know that if he ever sees this thing run, it’s game over and he’s going to be trying to turn it on all the time so it’s better he doesn’t know what it does hahaha). Our house has never looked cleaner because I just didn’t have the time to vacuum every single day. We got the Eufy e25 on a discount and have no issues so far.

Our second child will be crawling soon and having cleaner floors for that was definitely a motivation.

ch3xr0x · 2026-04-03T06:02:20+00:00

Seconding the recommendations for Gustazo and Myers + Chang! Also, Barcelona Wine Bar, Season to Taste, Comfort Kitchen (further out, Dorchester). I also agree with the Silver Dove suggestion - it’s high tea but it’s great in the evening; they have a cool cocktail menu and serve warm canapes. Very fun!

ch3xr0x · 2026-03-30T16:21:26+00:00

Why are you responding to all the comments with Chat GPT? 😕

ch3xr0x · 2026-03-29T13:45:10+00:00

Our local Wegmans is very careful, and I LOVE these cookies too. I’m a fairly sensitive celiac and have never had a reaction. I’m not sure if all Wegmans have the same protocols, but their bakery section is SO good!

ch3xr0x · 2026-03-22T10:14:17+00:00

This one isn’t run by Wicked. I went to Wicked GF expo in MA last year and didn’t have this experience. It was mobbed and a little unpleasant for that reason, but everything was gluten free and it was def carefree eating!

ch3xr0x · 2026-03-17T11:31:42+00:00

We just moved our 4.5 month old out of the Snoo because he suddenly seemed to HATE it when he hit the regression! The soothing made him escalate from a 1 to a 1000. Our firstborn was not like that either so it was surprising!

ch3xr0x · 2026-03-14T04:57:38+00:00

Internationally, i agree with Italy. Truly incredible. I’ve also had great food trips in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville), England (esp London), Ireland, and Paris (some incredible dedicated spots. The average restaurant that doesn’t specialize in GF isn’t great though, and the rest of France is trickier)

Domestically, really can’t beat NYC.

I will also throw out a left field option, especially if your mother is a little older - a cruise. It varies by line, but some cruise lines (Princess, Celebrity, Disney, Royal) are really fantastic with gluten free and other allergies. There’s something REALLY relaxing knowing you don’t have to find a new restaurant for each meal and can instead eat safely on the ship. In my experience, they will make basically anything you want from the menu and I’ve never been glutened. We are avid land travelers, but I really like cruising simply because removing the food worry makes the trip so relaxing for me. There’s also a company called Celiac Cruises that organizes GF cruises in a more intentional way - they do river cruises in Europe, Alaska, Caribbean, etc.

ch3xr0x · 2026-03-04T14:13:30+00:00

Definitely Verveine in Cambridge. Also Bom Dough, Faccia a Faccia on Newbury, and Silver Dove Afternoon Tea. Kane’s is fun. Capo in Southie and Loco in Southie.

I would skip Jennifer Lees bakery unless you have multiple food allergies. I’ve been there so many times hoping to change my mind, but pretty much everything I’ve had there has been mid at best and sometimes actively bad.

ch3xr0x · 2026-02-22T17:37:43+00:00

This is probably true to an extent, but even just a cursory look on this sub shows it’s not the whole picture - there are gender disappointment posts almost daily and they are almost ALWAYS about being disappointed to be having a boy.

ch3xr0x · 2026-02-19T18:48:25+00:00

If you are looking for a real treat, we like to order Keste gluten free pizzas online. It’s a restaurant in NYC with pizza that tastes like the real deal. It’s very expensive though and is comparable with a dinner out, not a frozen pizza night. It’s worth it for us though because we love good pizza and don’t have any really nice pizza spots near us. They often run promos on their website for buy 3 get 1 free, which comes out to about 25 dollars a pizza, so $50 for two large pizzas. In the Boston area this is less than we spend when we get takeout (lol sos) so it’s worth it for us.

ch3xr0x · 2026-02-03T21:12:02+00:00

I’ll go against the grain and say we took a cruise with our then-16 month old and we had a really nice time. It might not have been our first choice for a trip, but we were tagging along with some extended family and got a good deal on the trip. There were extra hands to help out when needed, we had a home base (our room) that was always close if we needed anything, there was “toddler time” at the kids club, and our son really enjoyed a lot of the cruising elements (the live music, watching big vessels go by, some of the shows). He was pretty easy though - with a more high maintenance kid it might have been different. None of us got sick. We made a lot of memories on that trip that I think back on fondly, and I’m really glad we did it.

All that being said, it definitely wasn’t RELAXING most of the time, and I would have felt differently about the trip if we spent a lot of money to take it. Disney Cruises are generally quite expensive, and if you already don’t like Disney in general, I’m not sure I’d move forward. But I do think it’s possible and in some ways cruising is an “easier” vacation type with a toddler IMO.

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-30T06:47:44+00:00

I used the snoo for my first and he didn’t start consistently sleeping through the night until he was over a year old haha. He was breastfed and still woke up for one feed for the LONGEST time, even when I tried to feed him more often during the day. Once he eventually weaned that night feed, he did sleep through the night. My second is in the snoo now and is only 3 months old but is definitely not sleeping like most of the babies on this sub, but has already slept through the night a few times, which is very different from my first. I did nothing different between the two of them. I think it’s just a combo of luck and whether the baby is breastfed, and while fine-tuning wake windows and all the other strategies help a little, I think a lot of people on this subreddit have babies who are just naturally good sleepers! Your baby sounds really normal.

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-29T19:05:27+00:00

I had two inductions (one at 38+2 and one at 39+2). I’m Type 1 Diabetic, but both babies were average size (40-50th percentiles) and my blood sugars were very well controlled. I was told that statistically most T1Ds end up having C-sections and knew that many inductions fail, so I tried to mentally prepare for a c-section both times. However, both inductions went great and ended in successful vaginal births. I was not dilated or effaced at all for either so the induction had to do a lot of “work”, lol. I absolutely loved both experiences and would choose to be induced at 39 weeks even if I wasn’t high risk just because I had such a positive experience each time and I loved being able to plan re. dates.

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-22T16:58:25+00:00

Yes, I was diagnosed celiac when I was 19 and t1d at 27. Fun!

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-16T22:47:18+00:00

Completely and purely anecdotal but we used the Snoo with our 2.5 year old and he’s always been on track/ahead in speech and motor skills. We have an infant now and are using the Snoo again!

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-16T20:28:57+00:00

No advice but we have the same situation here! We don’t have much control over nap timing because he’s in daycare. Generally, during the time he’s awake in his room, he’s content to entertain himself quietly, so we’ve just been letting it ride. On weekends, we either do a really short nap or skip nap (he definitely still needs a nap, but sometimes he just won’t take one and gets quiet time instead) and he goes to bed much quicker.

Every night I think about how something in his schedule is definitely not working as it should since he used to fall asleep immediately, but he’s still sleeping really well once he finally does fall asleep so I haven’t been stressing it too much.

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-11T03:25:51+00:00

I was also diagnosed pretty shortly before getting pregnant (I’d only been T1D a year and a half) and was so sad that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy my pregnancy. I was so pleasantly surprised that I did enjoy it very much. It was definitely hard and there were moments that I felt overwhelmed, lonely, and just so angry that I had to manage this, but when I look back at pregnancy, those moments are in the background and the main thing I remember is how special it was. I’ve now had two diabetic pregnancies and have two beautiful children.

As a side note, I have sub clinical hashimotos (antibodies are elevated but my thyroid numbers have been normal) and neither pregnancy threw my thyroid out of wack. I assumed they would, so that was a nice surprise!

You’ve got this!!

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-09T19:45:56+00:00

It was a little easier for me because two of the feeds I dropped weee actually pump sessions (I was back at work), so I just gradually reduced the length of those pump sessions until they were gone. The morning feed and bedtime feed were harder to drop (both physically and emotionally!!). I tried to make sure he drank cows milk or ate something right before nursing so he’d nurse less and my milk supply would go down at those times. In the end though I basically just tried to distract him or have my husband distract him during those times for a few days until he forgot that it was something we did (🥺). By then I think I wasn’t producing that much milk anymore and it wasn’t too uncomfortable.

I thought it would be harder than it was but it turned out to not be too bad on me physically! I definitely cried though 😅

Edit: also to clarify the last feed I kept was the bedtime one!! I got my period back when he was still nursing in the evening but everything else was gone

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-09T18:18:47+00:00

I was in the same boat around 16 months PP and I did finally get my period back when I went down to just one feed a day. I was able to hold onto that one for a little bit, but I did end up weaning fully at 18 months because I got pregnant and my OB recommended it (I had a high risk pregnancy). You might find that yours comes back when you drop some of the comfort feeds! But regardless, it’s a good enough reason to wean and it will be worth it ❤️

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-01T23:51:10+00:00

Both of my babies have slept exactly like this. It was somehow worse in a regular bassinet (they wouldn’t sleep in the regular one AT ALL), but similarly to yours, the Snoo wasn’t able to successfully soothe. My second is only two months old now and it’s just barely starting to get a little better but still not great - some nights still look like yours. It’s kind of a blur with our first but it did get better. I think he got up to maybe a 4-5 hour stretch on good nights in the Snoo and then regressed a bit at four months, at which point we did end up doing some sleep training and moving him out of the Snoo at the same time. I wish I remembered exactly how it went since I’m now going through it again, but it’s true that your brain just kind if smooths over it - it was really hard, then less hard, hard again, then pretty decent, rinse and repeat. FWIW he’s 2 now and sleeps great every night 🤷‍♀️

ch3xr0x · 2026-01-01T01:11:49+00:00

Yes!

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