I guess I have been so worried about my incompetent cervix that I haven't taken much time to take stock of my Crohn's Disease at this point in the pregnancy. My Crohn's disease still appears to be in remission but I have started noticing more and more that foods that should bother me (but haven't in years) now bother me: greasy foods, high residue foods, etc. I don't know that this is necessarily a side effect of Crohn's Disease or merely the fact that my system is bombarded with so many hormones.
The most obvious "symptom" (I'm not sure this is the right word so imagine me doing heavy air quotes on symptom) I have noticed in this last week or so is that my hernias are not letting food pass through as easily as before. While I was in the hospital the doctors gave me two big shots of steroids to mature the lungs of the baby just in case I go in to labor. He told us that the baby will now act, breath, and look like a baby that is two weeks longer in gestation than he actually is at this point. I am convinced that the doctor was right on the money. They baby's kicks have become noticeably stronger this week and he has grown quite a bit. I think the baby is taking up so much more room in my tummy that my hernias are pressed for room to do their thing.
Between my hernias working overtime and the baby kicking the daylights out of me, I feel like there is a wrestling match going on in my belly.
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