What worked last month may stop working tomorrow.
In this gentle educational episode within The Things We Were Not Taught series of The Diabetic Mammy Podcast, Catherine explores one of the most unsettling realities of parenting a child with type 1 diabetes: growth changes everything.
From pre-puberty’s quiet insulin resistance to puberty’s loud hormonal shifts, this episode explains why insulin needs can suddenly rise, why ratios stop behaving, and why beautiful patterns can unravel overnight, even when you are doing everything “right”.
We unpack the physiology behind growth hormone, cortisol and sex hormones, and how they increase insulin resistance. More importantly, we name the emotional whiplash that comes with changing baselines: the grief, the self-doubt and the quiet fear that you are losing control.
This episode is a reframe: adjusting insulin is not regression. It is recalibration. Stability is not the goal, responsiveness is.
If you are navigating rising insulin needs, creeping blood sugars, or the unpredictability of puberty with type 1 diabetes, this conversation will steady you. Growth is not mismanagement. It is biology. And you are allowed to move with it.
🎧 A compassionate listen for parents, carers and anyone living with T1D who needs reminding that adaptation is not failure.
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