A medical diagnosis for your child can be a really difficult thing to navigate and adapt to and

emotionally cope with. And today I wanted to talk about type 1 diabetes, just diabetes in general,

but typically with young kids, when they're diagnosed, it's with type 1, and it's getting

increasingly more common.

So today I have my good friend, who's also a registered dietitian like me and a mom,

and she also has been living with diabetes for much of her life.

So I thought that her perspective would be really great to have on,

not only as a professional who really understands the nutrition and physiological components, but also just what it's like to live with diabetes.

It's super interesting to hear from her and her perspective what she has to say.

So let's bring her on.

Music what she has to say. So let's bring her on. If you're new here, I'm Casey Barnes. I'm a registered dietitian and mom of two living in Dallas, Texas, and I help make feeding kids easier. It's really that simple. That's my goal,

but also my goal is just to like be a mom friend, parent friend, and be able to connect with y'all.

I love just being in this parenting space. It's the hardest job in the world. So I like to be able to come together and

share the space with y'all. So let me bring on Mary Ellen. Hi, Mary Ellen. Welcome on. Hi, thanks

for having me. I'm so happy to have you here today because we're real life friends too.

I know.

It's so great.

I was so excited when you emailed me because when did we meet like several years ago at

Fencey?

Yeah.

Like pre-COVID.

Yep.

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