We have been fine tuning Chance's night time basal rate. We are seeing an interesting trend. His BG readings can be 100 at the 11pm check, then be 300 by 2am requiring insulin, then he has a massive drop off by morning. Nancy, our diabetes educator, thinks this is due to growth hormones, which is common in little ones.
We're trying to balance this with his basal rate. We don't want him going too high overnight, but we don't want him too low either in the early morning hours. We made an adjustment yesterday and Chance's numbers were great last night. We increased his basal rate from 11pm to 2am to 0.075. The result: at bedtime, he was 104. At 2am, he was 213. At breakfast, he was 163. HORAY!!!!!!!!!
The other big news is that the new daycare teachers (whom we love!) are doing the morning snack by themselves and are feeling real close to taking over the meal routines without us there. His new teachers are awesome and very engaged in the whole diabetes management process. The head teacher's husband is a type 1 diabetic so I believe this helps.
We are still waiting for word on when Tas will move up to be with Chance. In the meantime, I am giving him a lot of extra love and have been bringing him over to the 2 year old playground so he can see his brother, whom he asks for during the day. This morning, Tas was playing with my hair and said "Mommy red hair." I thought I would melt.
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