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Continue reading →: How to Read Nutrition Labels EffectivelyUnderstanding what is on food nutrition labels and what it means to help with blood sugar management and eating a balanced diet.
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Continue reading →: World Diabetes Day: Celebrating Insulin’s ImpactWorld Diabetes Day (WDD) is a global diabetes awareness campaign marked on the 14th of November which is the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting who discovered insulin in 1922 along with Charles Best. WDD was created in 1991 with becoming an official United Nations Day in 2006. Each WDD has…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Health Insurance Costs With DiabetesCommercial health insurance in the United States is health insurance that is employer sponsored or privately purchased and not provided by the government (i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc). Every fall, the time comes once again to select your health benefits for the next year which can make you want to…
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Continue reading →: Made with Love and InsulinTo all my blog followers that have read along with my pregnancy journey, introducing Lillian Grace born on July 13! Lillian is pictured with all the insulin and omnipods I used during my second and third trimesters of pregnancy. I didn’t start saving these until a few weeks into my…
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Continue reading →: Third Trimester of Pregnancy with Type 1 DiabetesAs I sit here writing this at week 38, I can confirm that the third trimester does feel like the longest! I’m feeling uncomfortable and ready for this baby to come out, but also emotional in thinking how the time is almost here and how our lives are going to…
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Continue reading →: Review of Using the Omnipod 5 Insulin Pump During PregnancyThis blog post is sharing my own personal experience in using the Omnipod 5 insulin pump during pregnancy. This is not affiliated to Insulet Corp. in any way. Please discuss all blood sugar management and insulin therapy options with your personal diabetes care team, but as always, I hope this…
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Continue reading →: Second Trimester of Pregnancy with Type 1 DiabetesThis post shares my thoughts and a review of my second trimester of pregnancy with type 1 diabetes. This is my own personal experience except where a source is cited. If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant, please only take diabetes management guidance from your personal diabetes healthcare…
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Continue reading →: First Trimester of Pregnancy with Type 1 DiabetesI’m happy to share that my husband and I are expecting our first child in July 2023! As I sit here and write this I’m already half way through my second trimester (time flies!), but wanted to reflect back on the first trimester and share what I’ve experienced, what helped…
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Continue reading →: Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) vs. Time in Range (TIR): Measures of Blood Glucose ManagementLife with diabetes is filled with numbers: blood sugar values, insulin units, carbohydrate grams, carbohydrate to insulin ratio, basal rates, and the list could go on and on, but 2 numbers especially important to understand in terms of overall blood sugar management are Hemoglobin A1C and Time in Range. The…
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I’m Katherine
Welcome to With Diabetes in Mind, a diabetes health and lifestyle blog dedicated to sharing my experience in living with type 1 diabetes along with sharing my health knowledge from my career experience and health and exercise science degrees. I hope this blog provides relatable information in experiencing the daily challenges of diabetes, knowledge to empower living a healthy life and taking control of managing diabetes, and a reminder that life with diabetes is still worth living and designed with purpose. Let’s connect via the Contact option or at the links below!
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