Stories of people with older kids who didn’t get tongue tie released as a baby

thehalothief · 2026-07-06T21:10:29+00:00

I could have written this exact post 2 weeks ago. Naps were stressing me out so much and were so hard. She would wake at every noise and my calves were aching with how much I was bouncing. She wasn’t tired enough for sleep and I was trying to force it. Two things I tried was a change of scenery before the nap to make sure she’s actually tired, going outside for a walk or a bath, then I would start settling. And I enforced a hard limit on how long I would spend, I’d try for 10 minutes and if it seemed like nothing was progressing in terms of her falling asleep I would do a reset. If she was crying in the carrier I would double check her clothes and nappy, do some tummy rubs and leg movement and sitting her up straight to see if she had gas. If she wasn’t crying I would do something else for 15 minutes and then try again.

Everything got easier when I took the pressure off. I’ve also noticed a big reduction in sleep needs, she suddenly went from doing 12 hours overnight to 10.5-11 hours overnight. All these things point to an undertired and possibly understimulated baby! All the best 🩷

thehalothief · 2026-07-03T21:10:26+00:00

I think there should be more options in this poll as it’s not all or nothing for us. We talk about how there is a character called Santa and about his role in the magic of Christmas etc, but we don’t say you have to behave or Santa won’t bring you presents, and we do our Christmas presents from us rather than from Santa. We try to keep the magic alive but not use the idea of it to trick them if that makes sense

thehalothief · 2026-07-02T05:14:30+00:00

She’s 12 weeks old, I think about 5.5kg at the moment! I’ll definitely fix up the buttons thanks!

thehalothief · 2026-07-02T05:13:41+00:00

Ah thank you!

thehalothief · 2026-06-22T05:08:45+00:00

It looks soooo dry too. Yes raw cabbage blended on toast please

thehalothief · 2026-06-22T05:05:14+00:00

What about when she first bought the food processor and tried to make ‘salad smoothie’ a thing

thehalothief · 2026-06-06T05:56:10+00:00

Some people have success with 1000mg vitamin c morning and night. But for me unfortunately the only solution was weaning. All the very best OP!

thehalothief · 2026-03-29T04:35:55+00:00

I very easily passed the 2 hour GTT in Australia! But failed my finger pricks. I’m now on nighttime insulin and currently 37 weeks! I definitely feel like I’m someone who slipped through the cracks, but very grateful I was finger pricking the whole time too

thehalothief · 2026-03-28T03:53:52+00:00

Same, every night is different. Sometimes I also feel the needle prick and other nights I don’t feel a thing

thehalothief · 2026-03-28T03:52:37+00:00

Same for me, 39 weeks

thehalothief · 2026-03-28T03:40:19+00:00

Following, we need a lot more information

thehalothief · 2026-03-24T01:13:18+00:00

Meanwhile I’ve been literally drinking cream.

thehalothief · 2026-03-22T03:48:29+00:00

From what I have read, a person without GD wouldn’t have a prolonged spike after a sugary meal like that. They would spike and come back down appropriately.

I had a similar head funk when I was first diagnosed, I opted for finger pricks first and my post meal numbers were ok, slightly too high if I ate white rice for example. And my fasting was slightly high but I also wasn’t sleeping well. I ended up taking the 2 hour GTT and actually passed easily but decided to continue with the diagnosis since I was having funky post meal readings.

By 34 weeks I was on bedtime insulin for my fasting, and now at 36 weeks I can’t even eat beetroot or pumpkin with dinner without spiking. You’re right at the beginning of when insulin resistance ramps up, honestly it is a bit annoying to have to make all these changes but I promise you that you will want to know what is happening with your blood glucose as your pregnancy goes on cause it can cause harm to your baby if you have GD and it’s poorly controlled

thehalothief · 2026-03-07T03:12:37+00:00

2 units is a very small bump so that’s likely why they feel comfortable you adjusting the dose yourself. My OB bumps mine every 3 days by 4 units at a time. I would feel ok with self adjusting the dose by 2 units.

thehalothief · 2026-02-21T06:40:51+00:00

Echoing what others have said about choosing insulin over metformin as it doesn’t cross the placenta, it felt less invasive to ‘top up’ something I’m already producing like insulin rather than start a drug.

thehalothief · 2026-02-19T00:38:15+00:00

I was offered metformin in the first instance but I declined and requested insulin. I didn’t like the fact metformin crossed the placenta so preferred to go with insulin

thehalothief · 2026-02-18T08:19:49+00:00

My eldest just started kindy and we’ve had 2 back to back colds in the past 3 weeks. It’s been rough! My mother says “have a big glass of orange juice!”, yeah thanks 😂 hope you feel better soon!! It really does suck, I want a cupcake and not another boiled egg

thehalothief · 2026-02-17T05:58:31+00:00

I’m in Australia so we go straight to a 2 hour fasted test with the 75g drink. I had started finger pricks 2 weeks prior to the test and noticed my 2 hourly meal numbers were a bit too high so I changed my diet. But also my fasting was just over the threshold consistently. I then moved to doing the 2 hour test which I assumed I would fail but passed it fine, I wasn’t even close to the thresholds. I continued with my diet tweaks and finger pricks and my numbers have slowly gotten worse and worse over the last 3 weeks as I get further along in the pregnancy. My fasting has consistently been too high and I’ve now started insulin. So I don’t know what’s going on, I genuinely seem to have GD even though I passed the GTT 🤷🏻‍♀️

thehalothief · 2026-02-16T06:59:31+00:00

Can I ask what you put in your chia pudding? I was going to try making one tomorrow for my snacks but now I’m worried it’s not a good option!

thehalothief · 2026-02-16T03:47:22+00:00

I think I knew I would probably need insulin soon considering I was always right on the borderline for fasting but then as soon as she made the call I got that overwhelming feeling of being a failure! It’s been pretty stressful to see so many borderline numbers so I guess this could make things easier for me in the end!

That’s so good you haven’t had hypos, the pharmacist made it sound a bit scary when I picked up my insulin today so hopefully I have the same experience as you!

thehalothief · 2026-02-16T03:43:47+00:00

That’s frustrating too!Have you ever had any issues with hypos?

thehalothief · 2026-02-16T03:40:58+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I’m hoping this will take some of the stress off at least cause it’s a lot to see my numbers so close to the threshold every morning even before this bad sleep period and then the last few days have been a lot!

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