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When You're a Parent With Diabetes: A Real Life Guide to Staying Healthy While Raising a Family

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Author: Kathryn Gregorio Palmer
Publisher: Healthy Living Books
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6

ISBN: 1578262321
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.462
EAN: 9781578262328
ASIN: 1578262321

Publication Date: September 19, 2006
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Condition: GOOD CONDITION, COVERS HAVE SOME MINOR WEAR,NO WRITINGS. (STOCK#: NOENN-A4)

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Finding the time and energy to maintain a healthy diet and exercise program is a challenge for any parent#8211;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#8217;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.brbrFrom 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 bookbranswers questions such as:br#8226; What are the risks of being pregnant with diabetes?br#8226; Will I have the energy to handle a rambunctious child?br#8226; Where can I hide my juice boxes so the kids don#8217;t accidentally drink them all?brA mother of two, Palmer blends her own experience with expert advice and tips from other parents to create a compassionate and useful handbook that parents with diabetes will find indispensable.

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5 out of 5 stars

True experience of having diabetes with a family August 26, 2008
I just have to say that I am very impressed with this book! I wish it had been around for my first T1 pregnancy! Reading it really validated all of my frustrations about the sudden and drastic change in care once the baby was born. It also has realistic suggestions about how to deal with the frustrations of diabetes and explaining it to your kids. I can not begin to tell you how many times my child has snuck into my supply of juice boxes for low blood sugar! This book is wonderful and a must read for any mom with diabetes planning for a family. I can't stress how much I wish I had it the first time around! I'll be leaving it in my CDE for another 1st time mommy to read!

5 out of 5 stars

Debunking the myths of parenting with diabetes August 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Kathryn Gregorio Palmer knows diabetes. She has lived with it since age 18. Her husband also has type 1 diabetes and they have two healthy young boys. So, when you read so much about the risks of parenting among diabetics, you can't help but think they may be on to something that all of us diabetics can learn from.br /br /In writing "When You're a Parent With Diabetes: A Real Life Guide to Staying Healthy While Raising a Family" Palmer made her dream of helping other parents struggling with diabetes come true. Using a tone that never sounds condescending while still delivering very valuable pearls of wisdom from her own experience, Palmer takes the reader through the different stages of parenting in a very well structured and enjoyable way. br /br /She doesn't stop at sharing her own experience. The book's 144 pages are also packed with anecdotes from female and male parents as they live through the struggles of parenting with diabetes.br /br /Starting with the considerations leading up to parenthood, including thoughts about gestational diabetes, things to monitor throughout pregnancy and during labor and delivery, the book also even devotes space to adoption as an option for diabetics.br /br /The first year of parenthood, the preschool years, while you still are your children's hero and the time when you can be a cause of serious embarrassment for them (think how teenage children may feel about having their diabetic parent shoot insulin or test blood glucose in public), all have a space in the book.br /br /A whole chapter is devoted to some of the challenges diabetics want to forget about, such as how to talk with kids about diabetes complications, dealing with diabetes and depression, and a cause of much concern: the worries of one's own children developing diabetes. br /br /The last pages are spent reminding us diabetics of the things we can and should do to stay healthy and avoid complications as much as possible, so we can live long to enjoy the lives of our children and grandchildren.br /br /All in all, "When You're a Parent With Diabetes: A Real Life Guide to Staying Healthy While Raising a Family" is an excellent resource for diabetics, whether they are planning to raise a family or they already have kids and can use a little extra help. If you are diabetic or your partner is diabetic, whether you are male or female, you should definitely get yourself a copy.

3 out of 5 stars

Basically only for Moms March 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

My husband is a type 1 diabetic. We are in the planning stages for thinking about possibly having children, and I obviously have my aprehensions for how his diabetes will affect him/us with very small children. A few (maybe 3) times during the time that I have known him, he has fallen into a severe low that he does not feel coming on, and it renders him basically comatose until someone else brings him out of it. I knew this book would deal with a woman with diabetes being pregnant and caring for a child, but other reviews I had heard also said it did a great job of detailing out the best way for the father with diabetes to respond as well, and I was hoping for a book to show me different things to do for my husband to make sure that he is okay when I leave him alone with the child. br /br /I think the book probably does a great job of detailing how to deal with a pregnancy, but I have been terribly dissapointed with the amount of time spent on the fathers, and generally when she is speaking to the fathers, she is addressing them as to how to care for their diabetic pregnant wives. I really want to give it like half a star, but I guess the material is good, the title is just bad. It should not be "When you are a PARENT with Diabetes", it should be "When you are a MOTHER with Diabetes." If that was the title, I would not have wasted my money. br /br /On a separate note, if anyone knows of a good book dealing mostly with a baby/child being raied by a diabetic father, I would love to know the title.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent... wish I had it the first time around. December 8, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is an excellent book-- a must read for anyone with diabetes contemplating a family. It gives the kind of encouragement necessary for staying focused. Thanks for writing!

5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic book! November 30, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have been a type 1 diabetic for the last twenty years. Now approaching my late twenties, I'm thinking about starting a family and preparing my body for that adventure. Doctors tell me about what my A1c should be and how my numbers should ring in, but no one could tell me about what it would be like once the kid actually arrived. How was I going to manage my diabetes daily duties and the daily doodies of a baby? Was it possible? I was unsure and overwhelmed and no one could give me an honest answer.br /br /Finding Kassie Palmer's book, "When You're a Parent with Diabetes," was exactly what I needed. She didn't gloss over her answers and offer platitudes and cliches about dealing with parenting - she gave Real Life situations and actually eased some of my anxieties about parenting.br /br /I feel that I'm at least semi-ready to think about a family now. And that's saying an awful lot.br /br /I would urge any diabetics who are thinking about starting a family to pick up this book. It's a must-read for anyone who wants both insulin bottles and formula bottles in their homes. :)

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