Been told to wait

Hi all, have marked as sensitive as though being told to wait isn’t the backstory could be triggering. I have a beautiful boy who is two and a half years old, we fell pregnant with him after one night of not using protection so was a very happy surprise, my diabetes was well managed but the pregnancy was horrible, I had HG, was admitted to hospital most of the time and ended up with an emergency c section at 35 weeks with baby boy in NICU. Once he was home everything was fine and although traumatic at the time it didn’t put us off wanting another one! In August last year I went to the clinic and we were given the go ahead to start trying again, in September we were pregnant but this ended at 11 weeks, viability scan was good and no problems but for whatever reason it didn’t stick and resulted in a MMC. Last month we started trying again, I am still on folic acid and HBA1C was 54, a little high but nothing I was made to be concerned about. This week I was admitted to hospital with keatones, I have been type one since 1996 and have rarely been admitted so this was unusual. Also for some background I have recently had some very stressful family news which I think has had an impact on diabetes, again though nothing to bad, (according to CGM average is 9.4) Following the hospital stay I had a phone call from the diabetic midwife who told me to stop trying as it would be very high risk and she is sending an appointment out to me Monday. I know my bloods have been a bit higher than I would like but it feels very extreme to stop trying, and to be honest, really heartbreaking. I was wondering if anyone else had been told to stop TTC and what the outcome was or if you know what I can expect at the appointment? Thank you for reading x
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Do you have an endocrinologist. I would be asking them… or an obstetrician? Your hba1c is not bad so I can’t see why. Was your bsls and ketones out of control during your admission?

i personally (with both pregnancies) waited until my A1C was a 6 flat to start trying and my doctors could tell me nothing about it since it was so managed. if i were you though i would listen to ur doctors and pause momentarily on baby making if ur diabetes isn’t super controlled there are lots of complications (as you know) and im literally getting induced on friday due to diabetes complications with this pregnancy and i started this journey at a perfect A1C! i dont know if you have a pump but if u dont i would look into getting one (i have the tandem tslim with dexcom g6 paired). it changed the game for me and once ur numbers drop for a little while and u can show ur doctors ur diabetes is super very well managed i would try again for another baby. best of luck 🤍

I don’t have an endocrinologist, I can make further enquiries though. So my HBA1C was 53/7% which I thought was good, higher than mine normally is but not high by any means! Normally I’m around 42/6% but I had been unwell for a few days and had higher bloods. When I went into hospital I had two days of really high sugars that were unexplained, but came down once I was on fluids so only lasted 48hrs. I’m on a closed loop system so my blood sugars rarely go over 10 or bellow 4 which is why I’m so confused as to why they said to wait? My last diabetic clinic I was told me control was amazing but it seems this one incident has changed their minds? X

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