My Journey with IBD & Pregnancy
I’ve partnered with the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) to bring you this blog post. Read on to learn more about a new resource that was just launched today to help women navigate IBD and pregnancy . Until my early 30s, I wasn’t really a “kid person.” I never really played with dolls as a kid. I didn’t babysit younger siblings or cousins. And, honestly, I had very little interest in other people’s kids. When Mal and I got married having children was always part of our plan, but it wasn’t a priority for us. We got married kind of young (we were the first of our friends), so we weren’t in any kind of rush. Plus, we were enjoying life with just the two of us, so the kid stuff wasn’t a topic of conversation for many years. But, then, things with my health changed. I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at 31 years old, totally out of the blue. (Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) along with Crohn’s disease.) I was 100% healthy prior to my diagnosis