#259 She Is Having a Baby! First Trimester
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Samantha is 24 years old, newly diagnosed with type 1 and pregnant. I'll be talking with Samantha after each trimester and after the baby arrives. - Part One of a Four Part Series
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| 0:00.0 | You sent a nice simple email and it said hi first really enjoy your |
| 0:08.3 | podcast started listening a couple months ago I was diagnosed last year in |
| 0:12.0 | 2018 with an A1C of 12 and a half when I was diagnosed last year in 2018 with an A1C of 12 and a half when I was three months pregnant. |
| 0:16.0 | Unfortunately due to the undiagnosed diabetes and as a result of the crazy high blood sugars in the early stages of the pregnancy. |
| 0:23.0 | So this is incredibly sad. |
| 0:26.0 | I mean, who gets type 1 diabetes like right when they're pregnant? |
| 0:30.0 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:31.0 | You would think that that could never happen except Sam the giveaway I did just the other day |
| 0:36.7 | was one by a woman who found out she had type one four days before she found out she was pregnant. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh wow. |
| 0:45.0 | So apparently, it's a thing. |
| 0:48.0 | You can just get diabetes, whatever. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | So, you know, you talk here a little bit about the loss of your child and and what you figured out and then you said you know I now have an A1C of five |
| 0:59.9 | You know you're in range and you're two months pregnant. So you call you know, |
| 1:04.5 | blah blah, email goes on and I think you're just pretty much emailing me to say |
| 1:10.3 | hi I like the podcast and thank you. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.8 | And then I email you back. |
| 1:15.0 | So here's an idea Sam. |
| 1:16.4 | What if you came on every time at like at every trimester |
| 1:22.2 | and we walked through your pregnancy on the |
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