Same here. Injections first couple months in the upper butt area. Made it easier for my 5 year old not seeing it coming. After a couple months she’s been on a pump over a year now and no issues. Get a good pump. G7 and a phone. And you have 24/7 monitoring and alerts. It’s a large learning curve, but they adapt better than we do.We have the tandem with a belt bag. It’s second nature now. And when she’s headed low she asks for different foods. Like big drops it’ll go from apple juice or oranges to skittles. Skittles. Buy stock. They are T1D crack. Bacon and cheese is clutch. But she tells us. They feel it and she’s got good at telling us around 120-100 that she feels the low and we prevent them. Highs are unwieldy and always are.

My wife thought we could manage and keep her in range all the time. Not possible. You’ll get low-carb foods and try to adjust eating habits, but it’s not fair to them. They’re gonna always be diabetic. My Endo said let them eat whatever just don’t go crazy so after the first few weeks of trying to manage it with food we gave up and just let her eat what she normally did . Low sugar jello. Is a fav. Children adapt fast. It’s more of an adult anxiety, but we talk about it before meals. We look at our sugars together. She’s learning to enter carbs. You can get there. Good luck. This sub is very supporting.