Here’s a great, brief article that came from the American Diabetes Association’s Parents eNewsletter.
Tips for Sleepovers
The following section was taken from posts on the Place for Parents Message Board on diabetes.org. These tips should not replace advice and/or recommendations from a health care provider but reflect issues that parents deal with day-to-day.
“I know my 7–year [...]

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Traveling with diabetes and taking insulin on a plane was something we experienced right away. Our son was diagnosed while he was visiting Thailand and so only a week after getting out of the hospital we were on our way back to the U.S.
Not only were we still shell-shocked with the diagnosis and not [...]

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This will be our first year celebrating Halloween since our son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.  We hope we do it right.
Our primary philosophy is to allow him to experience as normal a Halloween as possible.  He’s got his school costume party, a separate one that he is heading to at the local hospital [...]

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