perfectly normal to have lots and lots of hypos up to about 16 or weeks......its all the other hormones making you incredibly insulin sensitive. In fact if you werent having hypos it would be unusual. then it usually levels out until maybe week 24 or so then it will go the other way and you will need heaps more insulin for the last trimester, like up to 3 times as much as pre pregnancy. It is all normal for us!

With regard to the other insulins they MAY be of benefit to you but hey I am no doctor so I cant say for definite. i do know that a lot type 1 d's these days use them in perference to protophane and actrapid unless of course they are on insulin pumps like myself. I use humalog in a pump which has been of enormous benefit to myself in getting precise control.

oh and birth defects.....my high risk ob said to me once she would only be worried about that if your hba1c got over 10 so you would have to be really really out of control for that to be a d related issue.