Pregnancy

I'm noticing that my blog seems to be more about pregnancy than Crohn's so far, but since I have Crohn's disease, and I'm pregnant, I feel it is pertinent.

Getting pregnant was something my doctors had always told me would be near impossible. In hindsight I actually think Crohn's saved me/us a great deal of heartache.  Rather than trying for years to get pregnant, only to be disappointed month after month, year after year, we went in knowing that we would need help.  Showing up in the fertility doctor's office every week and seeing the desperation and anxiety on so many faces revealed to me how fortunate we were to know from the get-go that we would need medical intervention to get pregnant.  It ends up I wasn't wrong at all.  Multiple abdominal surgeries had created so much scar tissue that it was most definitely impossible for us to get pregnant naturally.  After years and years of medical disappointments related to my Crohn's disease, handling the fertility problems were relatively easy.

So here we are five months in and we found out yesterday we are having a boy.  It was funny to see how perplexed the ultrasound tech was by my ostomy and two hernias. I found out that the baby is lying completely on my right side.  I don't know for sure but I am guessing that my perastomal hernia is preventing the baby from shifting to the middle of my abdomen.  This should make for some interesting pregnancy pictures here in a couple of months.