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Hi Everyone,

I'm Skye and i've just joined here and i could do with a little advice, but let me tell you a little bit about me first.

I have been a type 1 diabetic now for 35 years, i'm 36 years old. My diabetes control is pretty good and i don't suffer with any serious complications, i've had laser treatment on my eyes but apart from that everything is ok.

What i need to know is being that i'm 36 and have diabetes, have i left it to late to consider having a baby. When i was younger i was definitely not in a position to start planning a family, but i wondering now if i have indeed left it to late.

Skye x
 
I've known people who are older then you when they had a child (my sister as one) - and my wife wasn't that much younger for our little boy.

But don't hang around! Generally your fertility does start to decline as you get older.

Welcome to the forums too 🙂
 
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Skye said:
Hi Everyone,

I'm Skye and i've just joined here and i could do with a little advice, but let me tell you a little bit about me first.

I have been a type 1 diabetic now for 35 years, i'm 36 years old. My diabetes control is pretty good and i don't suffer with any serious complications, i've had laser treatment on my eyes but apart from that everything is ok.

What i need to know is being that i'm 36 and have diabetes, have i left it to late to consider having a baby. When i was younger i was definitely not in a position to start planning a family, but i wondering now if i have indeed left it to late.

Skye x
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Welcome to the forum Skye, if you are healthy I don't see why you can't have a baby! I'm sure there are plenty of people on here to give you the advice you may need. 🙂
 
Just a welcome from me Skye...............

As a man, I dont have the knowledge you are after, but I would optimistically say that its not too late to try for a baby. Your control seems good, and you not old at all.....

Children are what we all want eventually, with the exception of some I suppose, so dont think you should deprive yourself of a basic human need.........:D
 
Skye said:
Hi Everyone,

I'm Skye and i've just joined here and i could do with a little advice, but let me tell you a little bit about me first.

I have been a type 1 diabetic now for 35 years, i'm 36 years old. My diabetes control is pretty good and i don't suffer with any serious complications, i've had laser treatment on my eyes but apart from that everything is ok.

What i need to know is being that i'm 36 and have diabetes, have i left it to late to consider having a baby. When i was younger i was definitely not in a position to start planning a family, but i wondering now if i have indeed left it to late.

Skye x
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Definitely not. I am now 37 and have a one year old. I have had diabetes for 16 years. I have just requested an appointment for the pre-pregnancy clinic to start talking about number 2.
It is tough work having a diabetic pregnancy but it is so worth all the effort. Have you spoken to your DSN? Does your clinic have a pre-pregnancy clinic you could attend?
 
Hi and welcome Skye

I met my partner when I was 35, having got type 1 diabetes aged 30 years. By the time a couple of years had passed and we discussed the possibility of having children, we decided we had left it too late - not absolutely impossible, but more difficult to conceive and pregnancy with type 1 diabetes being more difficult than without, plus he spends several months each northern winter working in Antarctica, so wouldn't be around to help for longish periods. So, we never tried to have a pregnancy and concentrate on being aunt & uncle to several children, officially to my nieces and unofficially to children of several friends. Plus, my job includes coaching orienteering and running activity birthday parties for children at a country park (25 parties in 2011, involving average 15 children per party), so we're not missing out.

Although I realise this could be interpretted as flippant, but it isn't - ducks (livestock) and cat (pet and rodent manager) are not child substitutes, but they are very entertaining - and children don't lay eggs nor deter rodents from sheds.

If you go ahead, then there is advice available through pre-conception clinics, which I would have used in different circumstances.
 
Hi and welcome tot he forums. I'm glad you are well.

It is more difficult but not impossible for you to have children, the best thing is to take advice and have the tests done. I hope everything works out well for you.
 
Welcome to the forums Skye.

You are not too old and many diabetes centres hold pre-conception clinics. As a diabetic you will be advised to take a high strength folic acid supplement.
 
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No you're not! Ring that DSN/clinic immediately and get the ball rolling!!!
 
Hi Skye. Welcome 🙂

I'd agree with the others, that, as long as you're generally healthy and your HbA1c is within the acceptable range, then you should be able to try for a baby like any non-diabetic woman.

Rob
 
Hi Skye, I have just been to get our my diabetes text book as I remembered reading something last week and just wanted to look it up again. The following is a quote from the "type 1 diabetes in children, adolescents and young adults". It says "It appears that the risk of a child acquiring diabetes decreases as the mothers age increases. If a mother is over 25 years of age when she gives birth, the risk to the child developing diabetes later in life is not significantly increased compared to mothers without diabetes"
 
Thank you everyone for your replies i really appreciate your advice.

I just feel my biological clock is ticking away and because you hear that the more 'mature' you are the harder it is to get pregnant, mix that with diabetes and i honestly thought i had left it to late. I'll definitely have to go and have a chat with my DSN.

Thanks again everyone 🙂
 
Hi Skye, you may be interested to learn that this forum was originally set up by a Type 1 lady who had had diabetes for 35 years - six months after the forum started she gave birth to a lovely baby boy 🙂 Good luck!
 
good luck Skye ..my friend who had babies at the same time as me had no1 at 38 and no 2 at 41 ...so I say go for it x😉
 
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