I'm pregnant with my second baby. With my first I had borderline gestational diabetes. I didn't have to take insulin shots. I just monitored my blood sugar (4 times a day) and controlled it with diet. I did a good job as I never had to be put on insulin and after my daughter was born it went away. The doctor went ahead and told me to do the diet again before I even took the glucose test. She said because I had had it before, that it was a good idea to do the diet. She told me that this did not mean I was going to get it again, but that if I did, it would come back stronger. She also told me that diet would not control it; I would have to go on insulin. Why is that? Why can't I control it with diet? Is there a more extensive diet with more choices that I can choose from? The diet I used with my daughter was very simple and plain. I only had to be on it for two months. This time it's a lot longer.

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.