Hello friends and welcome to episode 952 of the Juice Box Podcast.

Today on the podcast, I'll be speaking with a mom of a 12 year old with type 1 diabetes

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My name is Joanna. I have three daughters. My oldest of which is 12 and she is the one who is

Type 1 diabetic and I live in Canada. Okay, you're 12 year old to T1. Just for context,

how old are your other kids? They are eight. So I have eight year old identical twins and then

a 12 year old. Did that, I don't know, I don't know what phrasing I was just about to use,

but my brain was like, don't say it that way. Was that from IVF or loss? We did have help. So we did

actually IY and Clomid to get pregnant with the twins, but they are identical twins are

spontaneous. And so it was a surprise. We actually were pregnant with triplets at the beginning,

so it looked like the third one was fraternal, but we'll never know, passed away and then ended up

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