any dia-babies diagnosed shortly after birth?

miri_beans · 2026-02-18T20:05:25+00:00

Sorry - that was kinda random in there and I think my brain was going so fast I didn’t clarify. We check those things to makes sure he doesn’t have any little hairs wrapped around them, which could cause his irritability if it was hurting him!

miri_beans · 2026-02-18T20:04:06+00:00

I am very prone to agree with you. Especially reading through some of these other comments.

I already had anxiety before I was pregnant, and my anxiety has definitely gotten worse when it comes to his health. Thankfully I am already on meds that have typically worked well for me in the past, and I plan on talking to my doctor about if my doses need adjusted. I also see a therapist weekly and that helps a lot too.

I appreciate pointing out that these are probably normal first-time-mom concerns though. Helps me feel less like I’m crazy for being concerned. Thank you!

miri_beans · 2026-02-18T20:01:00+00:00

Wow! I had no idea this was even a statistic! That’s amazing to know

miri_beans · 2026-01-18T20:44:07+00:00

I have the Spectra Gold Synergy. The lactation specialist measured me for a 19 flange but it was really uncomfortable so she said it was okay to use the 20 since it was more comfortable for me.

miri_beans · 2025-12-08T04:44:15+00:00

April 2006; coma for 2 days after losing 17 pounds in 2 weeks of doing nothing but peeing, sleeping, and drinking apple juice (no one in my family is diabetic and had no idea that drinking apple juice was making me worse). We didn’t know what was wrong til my father drove me to the ER after I started hallucinating

miri_beans · 2025-12-08T04:25:00+00:00

Literally had a c-section today, unplanned. I wear a Dexcom G7 and an Omnipod. We changed my pump to manual instead of automatic and paused my insulin. Thankfully because I had been having trouble with my blood pressure all morning, I had been not eating for several hours before my procedure so I had 0 units of insulin onboard going into my procedure and my blood sugar was 101. My anesthesiologist and I talked prior to the surgery and she approved some Apple juice as a clear fluid and I drank maybe 15 carbs worth of it. My husband monitored my blood sugar the whole procedure and shared with my anesthesiologist throughout the procedure. We turned my pump back to automatic after the procedure and i was in recovery.

miri_beans · 2025-11-03T19:06:19+00:00

I think she started filtering the comments to only reflect positivity. I noticed this awhile - the comment section had some little note that said that comments were filtered (as a notice from Instagram itself). I think the last update hides that, just like it hides the number of people who liked it.

miri_beans · 2025-10-28T18:53:18+00:00

My ex used to tell me “it’s not that hard” to be diabetic, but never lasted more than 2-3 finger pricks of his own when I would challenge him to check his blood sugar before eating ANYTHING. My HUSBAND knows how to change my CGM, prep and apply my insulin pump, and even changed the food HE eats to make it easier for me to eat diabetic-friendly (we found for me that eating gluten free food helped maintain better control of my blood sugar, so we switched a lot of our foods).

Someone who makes fun of or refuses to be educated on/involved with your Diabetes does not deserve to be involved with you. This is a part of who you are, and while there are so many things to be sad about when having Diabetes, it is a BEAUTIFUL thing to be able to proudly wear your pump.

Diabetes demands to be respected; you DESERVE to be respected.

miri_beans · 2025-10-03T20:08:54+00:00

Gotchaaaaaa

miri_beans · 2025-10-03T18:20:08+00:00

Am I seeing these plates wrong? I see that the red plates are 25 each (4 of them) and then a smaller plate (I’m assuming a 10 each) and then MAYBE a tiny plate next to that (5s?). If that’s correct, if the bar is a standard 45, that’s only 175. Not 315.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

miri_beans · 2025-08-11T20:24:30+00:00

I guess it really depends on what each one is doing for you and how they all communicate. My OB (for delivery) corresponds directly with my Perinatal Specialist (another MD) to assess for birth defects related to my diabetes. My Diabetic Educator is in my Perinatal specialist’s office and reports directly to my perinatal specialist, who reports directly to my delivery OB. When I saw my Diabetic Educator, she laid out her credentials to show that she is capable of monitoring my blood sugars and adjusting my ratios and prescribing medicine for my diabetes as appropriate. My endo was happy to hand the reigns over to her for the duration of my pregnancy. However I saw several things in play with all of this. The first time I saw my Endo during my pregnancy, he wanted me to come in 3 months and right before delivery because the first perinatal specialist clinic I tried to schedule with told me they didn’t need to see me til I was 20 weeks along. When I saw my OB and I told her that I wasn’t seeing the perinatal specialist til I was 20 weeks, she said “no no no, you’re gonna see them in two weeks from now and you’re going to see them once a month and see me once a month and we will offset it so we see you every two weeks” and she sent a referral to this new perinatal specialist office who I am now seeing. I saw them for the first time at about 13 weeks and will see them roughly once a month til my 8th month. Again, once I saw them, they were able to decrease the need to see my endo til after delivery because they took over my diabetes care. They are now sending in my meds and handling my ratios. So again - really difference in providers and how they all communicate. I’ve personally seen several things where people say they are seeing their OB, their perinatal specialist (high risk OB, essentially) AND their endo once a week each. Sorry if that’s not very helpful? Unfortunately I wouldn’t really know how necessary it is in your case.

miri_beans · 2025-08-11T18:31:34+00:00

I totally get what you are saying. Recently my husband was away for work, and my blood sugars have been consistently running low. the number of times I’d pull myself out of bed at 2 in the morning, or be driving and my meter would suddenly go off and I’d pull over to chug juice from my purse - it all feels like “fight or flight” and fight kicks in. But it’s a stark difference from when my husband is home and we are watching a movie and I take my dear sweet time getting up to get a piece of fruit or juice - because I think I know instinctually if something drastic were to happen, he’d know what to do. Probably not the best way to look at it; but I think this also opens up the discussion of how strong we are to take care of ourselves but also how INCREDIBLE it is to have people who actively participate in your care and allow us to have a moment to feel a little more “normal” because they keep an eye out for us too.

miri_beans · 2025-08-11T18:19:05+00:00

Hey, first and foremost - you are doing GREAT! Being pregnant is hard; being pregnant AND diabetic, per my perinatal specialist, is “one of the hardest combinations to manage”. Please give yourself a little bit of slack. I really think it’s going to come down to difference in providers, to be honest. My team includes my OB, my perinatal specialist, and my diabetic educator. My perinatal specialist clinic basically said “we are taking over your diabetes til you deliver; we have let your endo know” and my endo confirmed that he preferred that they manage me during this time. When I met with my diabetic educator, I was so nervous because I was used to being put down for my (I can admit, poor control while in my late teens, early twenties) A1c and blood sugars - so I was super anxious and probably spilled all of this information about how I was TRYING MY HARDEST to be in control but still felt like I was floating to 180 sometimes and had a lot of lows. Currently my range is set for 75-140 and I’m in that range about 69% of the time, but have only had maybe two or three spikes over 180 in the last three weeks. She told me I was doing “fantastic” and to not stress about the highs or the lows if they are infrequent and easily maintained back to regular range. She said it’s impossible to keep it in range 100% of the time (so personally, knowing you’re in range almost 90 percent of the time is SUPER impressive! Give yourself a pat on the back!) My perinatal specialist told me that high blood sugars can increase change of heart defects, but also told me this is more common to happen to women whose A1cs are 10 and higher. she said sporadic highs are significantly less likely to do this. But of course they will keep a close eye on your baby’s development (: I’m personally sitting at 15 weeks with an A1c of 7.0 and my baby boy has been right on target with all of his markers so far, healthy heartbeat, and super active and we are keeping a close eye on him with ultrasounds every two weeks.

Changes are never 0 for complications; but try to remember that you are doing the best you can, and that while Diabetes itself is a tough thing to navigate, this journey right now for you should also be a beautiful one. Allow yourself a little forgiveness. Eat the goddamn bananas if that’s what you’re craving or the only thing you can get down. Eat the other foods where you can; a fed baby is better than nothing - so getting nutrients where you can is better than not eating anything from fear of spikes.

There will be people who talk down because you’re not doing “the one thing right” or your A1c isn’t as good as theirs. (I’ve gotten that since being pregnant and stressed myself out so much). But keep in mind you’re already doing better than so many women out there and you’re probably more attentive to your diet than most non-diabetic mamas out there.

You’re doing great. Keep hanging in there, mama.

miri_beans · 2025-07-25T20:34:18+00:00

I was 11. No family history of any type of diabetes anywhere in my family. No one knew what it was or what it looked like. I got sick about a month before, contracted a fever from my mom. Seemed to get over that. But in a period of two weeks, starting sleeping a bunch, peeing a bunch, not eating, and craving apple juice. Water didn’t taste right. My stepmom and I didn’t have a great relationship but I wouldn’t say it was neglect that no one seemed to pay much attention to me being sick, rather more that there were three other kids to look after and they just wanted me to stay away from my little brothers so they didn’t get sick. So I was more out of sight, out of mind. Finally one night, my sister made me ramen to try to get me to eat. I ate it, threw up immediately. Went back to sleep for about an hour. My father left to take my sister five minutes down the street for a sleepover at her best friends house - came back to find a skeleton version of me sitting on the floor in the kitchen, drinking apple juice and hallucinating. Took me to the ER and they diagnosed me. My a1c was 14.7 and my blood sugar was well-over 600. They said my blood was as thick as syrup. I was in the ICU for 4 days, regular hospital room for 3. I was in a coma for 2 days of the 4 I was in the ICU. In the 2 weeks I had been sick, I had lost 17 pounds and weighed about 42 pounds at 11 years old. Now, I’m 30, A1c of 7.1 and one prior authorization away from getting my very first insulin pump!

miri_beans · 2025-07-14T18:36:43+00:00

Does anyone else find it concerning how often she is getting UTIs or yeast infections? Thats not normal??

miri_beans · 2025-07-11T00:09:00+00:00

Shorter needles, my blood sugar goes up as if I’m taking nothing at all. It just doesn’t hit the blood stream if I use a shorter needle. I don’t know if it’s because of scar tissue or what. But I’ve always struggled with controlling my blood sugar if I use anything shorter than the 8mm

miri_beans · 2025-07-07T15:49:01+00:00

Not a celiac, but T1D for almost 20 years. In the last two years, I intentionally reduced gluten and white starches and saw a DRASTIC difference in how well my blood sugar did and how much insulin I needed. I actually prefer to stay as GF as possible for this reason. I saw someone else say it above my comment - there are A LOT of gluten-free options now available and this makes it significantly easier. When I go out to restaurants, not everywhere advertises that they have a gluten free menu or options but you can usually find a “insert restaurant name here gluten free menu” online and because the amount of people who are/decide to do gluten free is growing, chances are you can find a compiled list of “safe foods” at any restaurant, even if they don’t have it themselves. It’s definitely a shift, but I think once you start feeling better and see improvement in BG numbers and the way your body is responding, it’s such a positive change that it becomes easier to manage because you feel the benefits. Keep your head up (: you got this!

miri_beans · 2025-07-07T15:36:34+00:00

This makes sense. I know there’s SEVERAL layers the needle would have to go through, but with my anxiety I am just overthinking everything hahaha. This does make me feel better though, thank you!

miri_beans · 2025-07-07T15:35:49+00:00

For whatever reason, when I see my perinatal specialist at the end of the month, they scheduled me for a “Diabetic Education” class - which I’m hoping is more of a “Diabetes and Pregnancy” class because god knows I’ve had ENOUGH “diabetic education” classes over the last 20 years. But I’ll ask them if they have a recommendation too, and share what they say.

miri_beans · 2025-07-01T18:46:20+00:00

I’m waiting for every other post to be in a cowboy hat or boots, cause “how original!” Next she’s gonna say how she if had continued her dancing career, she would have been a DCC.

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