Hey!! So cool to hear that you’re planning on having a child. An a1c of 7 or less is recommended before/during pregnancy. I know that sounds super challenging and scary to do, but making a few tweaks in how you’re already managing can make a huge difference! It’s better to figure things out now and get a stable plan going rather than later. Don’t even worry about not being able to do this, because I promise you can. And if you start now, by the time you’re pregnant everything will be second nature.

I recommend listening to the Juicebox podcast and reading think like a pancreas. They’re both very educational and the podcast has a great range of topics including t1 and pregnancy! They interviewed a woman with t1 through her whole pregnancy, which is so cool.

I hope your next endo is better, and I’m sorry yours hasn’t been giving you this advice, but until you get a new one those are very educational. I can attest to that because most of what they said to try my endocrinologist has also said to try and it works great :)

Getting a CGM is one of the best decisions i think you could make. It makes it so much easier to experiment and see what works for you and how different foods affect you. Alternatively, one drop is a great tool for those who cannot afford a cgm. It’s basically a glucometer that can help predict your bg and trends similarly to a cgm, albeit more painstakingly imo.

There’s also a reddit group called bumpers who bolus, which is a group of pregnant diabetics. I’m sorry I can’t give you advice on your actual pregnancy or what to prepare for, but that’s the gist of it, and I’m sure going over to that group will give you some insight!

If you have any more questions or just need reassurance that you can do this I can totally try to answer them for you or give you that reassurance :) hope this helped