A new study done by Reuters health in the UK compares blood sugar levels of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes and pregnant women with type 2. The first study done with continuous glucose monitoring on pregnant women and diabetes shows that women with type 1 have a harder time maintaining steady blood sugar levels throughout their pregnancies.
"These findings illustrate just how difficult it is to maintain treatment targets for glucose levels, particularly among the women with type 1 diabetes," Murphy and colleagues conclude.
This doesn't surprise or interest me particularly, what does grab my attention is that the pregnant women with type 1 experience less highs and lows as their pregnancy developes. I wonder... is this because the women become more accustomed to their needs and the changes in their body as they progress, or does it have to do with changes in hormone levels or what? I know with my own pregnancies, the further along I went, the more insulin resistant I became and by the end of the pregnancies, I was giving more than double, almost triple amounts of insulin than when I'd started. So how does glucose magangement improve?
I am not a doctor but I am a woman with diabetes and a mother, and I'd like to know the answers to these important questions!
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