Early Days – The DiaBeat

Diagnosis, Early Days, Mental Health, Self Care

What I Wish We’d Known

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020by thediabeat2 Comments

This week has been a busy one for us. Our big kid celebrated his two year "Diaversary", and, because it never rains but it pours (and this has never been truer for us than in August of 2018), our little guy turned two this week too. Our house has been filled with balloons and giggles, [...]

Early Days, Reference

The Diabetic Starter Kit: Toddler Edition

July 23, 2020July 23, 2020by thediabeatLeave a Comment

Navigating T1D with a toddler is, I suspect, much like navigating T1D with several sticks of aged dynamite. You never know when they're going to explode or what's going to set them off, and they are fiercely unreasonable in basically every way. Our boy wasn't what we might call the most reasonable of babies, but [...]

Diagnosis, Early Days, Mental Health

Adjusting to the New Normal

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020by thediabeat1 Comment

This particular day was my husband's first long day back at work after a brief but much-appreciated stint of paternity leave, and my first time solo-tackling the baby and the newly-diagnosed two year old. Life was pretty up in the air and to be honest, in the early days of life post-diagnosis, my way of [...]