Two Lives, One Pancreas: Type 1 Pregnancy Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe pregnancy with type 1 diabetes. Some writers planned for a year or waited because their team asked them to, others were surprised, and some came through IVF. They include a primary school teacher in Leicester, a school cafeteria cook in San Antonio watching the pharmacy bill, a midwife who became the patient, a night-shift nurse in Phoenix, a mail carrier in Cleveland watching her kidneys, a single mother by donor in London, two mums in Seattle, and a partner in Johannesburg learning where the glucagon was kept. They write from Columbus to Cork, Nashik, Durban, Kingston and Singapore. They describe pens and finger pricks, sensors, closed-loop systems and hospital rules about pumps, third-trimester insulin needs, steroid injections and a week of high sugars, Ramadan, a hawker centre lunch, twins, an eye exam, coeliac disease and gastroparesis. Births range from a midwife-led plan with conditions to early inductions, a big baby and a quick decision, and eleven days in neonatal intensive care. The book is honest about harder outcomes: a first pregnancy lost, a baby stillborn at thirty-six weeks, ketoacidosis at twenty-four weeks, a heart condition, paramedics at night, and low mood after the birth. A retired school secretary looks back across twenty-six years.

Who it's for

For women with type 1 diabetes who are thinking about a pregnancy, expecting now or looking after a newborn, and for the partners and families standing beside them.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 277 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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