When You're a Parent With Diabetes: A Real Life Guide to Staying Healthy While Raising a Family
helpful tips... pretty focused on type I tho. But she wrote what she knows....
Finding the time and energy to maintain a healthy diet and exercise program is a challenge for any parent–but it can be a matter of life and death for parents with diabetes. Diabetes in pregnancy, if poorly controlled, can increase the risk of miscarriage, birth defects, and prematurity. Mood swings and personality changes during a parent’s spells of low blood sugar can frighten young children. And even on good days, it can be difficult for a parent to remember to check their glucose levels in the haste of getting the kids off to school.From the psychological to the medical to the purely practical, Kathryn Gregorio Palmer guides parents with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes through the ups and downs of staying healthy while raising a family. Helpful for adoptive and stepparents as well as moms and dads, the bookanswers questions such as:• What are the risks of being pregnant with diabetes?• Will I have the energy to handle a rambunctious child?• Where can I hide my juice boxes so the kids don’t accidentally drink them all?A mother of two, Palmer blends her own experience...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9781578262328 / 1578262321
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I loved it! It's a quick, easy read (and honestly when you're a parent - nevermind one with D, who has time to read?), the author's "voice" really shines through (some days, I swear Kassie is my long lost sister!), and I love that its written by someone who lives with these challenges day in and day out, instead of some pushy MD that... helpful tips... pretty focused on type I tho. But she wrote what she knows. alot of it applies for type II as well. I should return to this when I'm in the thick of parenthood. It made me think about some things, contemplating how I might handle different situations. I would say it includes reminders of things we all already know but have a tendency to push off or ignore in the course of daily life. It's not deep and it isn't really a how-to, it's...
