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Diabetes Forecast: Telling Others About Your Childâ€™s Diabetes

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The News-Gazette: Mom Makes Sure Life is Sweet for Her Diabetic Child

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BabyCenter MOMformation: D-Moms: Parenting children with diabetes

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Praise for Leighann and D-Mom Blog

Allison of Lemonade Life: I met Leighann last summer in Chicago while on business at BlogHer. She is a smart, active, passionate mom and although I havenâ€™t had the pleasure of meeting her daughter, I can already tell she is just darling. I have always been â€œloud and proudâ€ with my diabetes, and itâ€™s great to see other children following suit.

Kim of Hormone-colored Days: Having known Leighann and followed her blog long before the diagnosis of her daughter, it was scary to see this all happen. Leighannâ€™s done a great job of handling this curve ball that was thrown at her family and Iâ€™m sure her blog will be a source of comfort and inspiration to many.

Nan of My Pump Gear: Leighann has taken great care in the design, layout and content of this new and wonderful resource site for parents of type 1Â kids.Â It just launched last month.Â What an incredible need it fills!Â How I wished there had been something like this when C was first diagnosed.

Joanne of Death of a Pancreas: When Elise was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 12 months, I had nowhere to turn. There seemed to be no place for a Mom with a diabetic baby to go for information. I remember feeling so alone, and that nobody out there understood what I was going through. That’s why I think a blog like The D-Mom Blog is so important. Think of it as a one-stop shop for diabetes information that creator Leighann Calentine has taken hours and hours of her own time compiling. It is a wonderful resource for both the newly diagnosed, and for those of us who have been dealing with D for awhile.

Rachel of What Life Has Become: Leighann, another D-Mom, created a new website called D-Mom Blog the sweet life with a diabetic child. Itâ€™s a great site full of resources. This site will be fantastic for newly diagnosed families but also for those of us who have been around the block a few times!

Hallie of Window to My World: Leighann, a fellow mother of a child with Type 1, has created an amazing new site. It’s called D-Mom Blog! How perfect is that? And check out the chick! That’s how I see myself – as a D-Mom Superhero fighting the evils of high blood sugar and uninformed people everywhere! It’s truly a wonderful site filled everything you could imagine! There is something so amazing, after a diagnosis, to find other people out there going through the same thing you are. Or others who are a little further down the D road and can truly empathize. I’m not even sure I can put into words – it’s such a wonderful feeling! It’s like recognizing a kindred spirit.

Kristina Sauerwein of MOMformation: I am familiar with the disease and all of its challenges. Parenting a diabetic child ups the ante, and thatâ€™s why I am proud of my friend Leighann for starting the D-Mom Blog, a comprehensive and compassionate site for moms, dads and other caregivers raising a child with the disease. The D-Mom Blog is an all-in-one, go-to site, but it is not clinical in tone. Leighann deserves kudos for launching the D-Mom Blog, because if you or someone you know is caring for a diabetic child (or teaching a child, or even knows a diabetic child), this site is a must-read.

KeyVive: If you haven’t already done so, bookmark the D-Mom Blog, Calentine’s personal blog about her journey as a D-Mom. It includes everything a mom needs: advice, understanding, resources, recipes, snack ideas and a connection to other moms experiencing the same thing.