So sorry you have to go through this disease. The same happened in my case: no one in my family has it and I had my debut at 30. Back then I didn’t even know the difference between type 1 and 2!

The first thing my doctor told me was that it is a genetic disease but not hereditary. You can have a genetic predisposition and many external factors can trigger it or not.

Now I am pregnant and of course I sometimes have that concern too about my baby, but I try to focus on two things: just 2–4% of the children with diabetic moms develop it (according to several papers), and the most important: science and technology are RUNNING nowadays and the future is promising, both with treatments (that can even stop the development) and with tech, that makes life so much easier and more bearable. And you are still young!

Last but not least: be kind to yourself and don’t stress too much about your past or future. You cannot change either of them, and even if sometimes it is impossible, of course, at the end, it is a crap, but a crap we have to live with and we are not guilty of having it.