Top 6 T1D Apps Every Parent Should Know in 2025

Let’s be honest—managing Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is a full-time job, especially when it’s your child who’s living with it. Between school, sleepovers, sports, and snack time, it often feels like you need eyes...

The Easiest Way to Set Up Nightscout in 2025

If you've landed here, chances are you’re a fellow T1D warrior—or the parent of one—looking for a reliable way to view and share blood glucose data. A few years ago, I wrote a popular...

Nightscout setup guide for dummies

UPDATE (July 2025): This method is now deprecated. Please see my new article "The Easiest Way to Set Up Nightscout in 2025" for my preferred method with less admin work headache. UPDATE (Nov 2021): Sugarmate has...

Closed Loop at kindergarten. A difficult decision to take.

Gregory is attending kindergarten for a few months now and his diabetes management at school is not easy at all. Various factors affect his blood glucose even though he is under insulin pump management. Unexperienced...

Diabetes management in Kindergarten

It has been two months now that Gregory is attending kindergarten. Current equipment Insulin pump: Medtronic 640G CGM: Guardian 3 Remote BG monitoring: Nightscout and xDrip+. Also 600 Series Uploader Android app that would take the BG values...

How CGM marinating made my sensor more accurate on Day 1

My son Gregory is wearing a Medtronic 640G insulin pump, along with Guardian Sensor 3 CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring). Before switching to an insulin pump he was using Freestyle Libre 1 and Freestyle Libre...

Square Wave vs Dual Wave bolus

My son Gregory, as a Medtronic 640G Insulin Pump user, can use different types of bolus deliveries, depending his insulin needs during the day. There are also different ways he can deliver a bolus,...

Gregory’s first day at kindergarten

My son Gregory has finally started school. His first school year in Kindergarten, or I would say half year as his diagnosis with T1D held us back a bit. Me and my wife are a...