FRED 14 weeks born 6 weeks early, mother has crohn's disease 3rd child, me age 36

Fred born 2nd Dec08
premature born 6 weeks early, small for dates, birth weight 4.15oz,(not that small though was very floppy and bruised) now video at 14 weeks old, just 8.8lb (new born size) just started to wear newborn clothes! real cutey, no health problems.

Born due to pre elampsia (natural very fast birth-born so fast he came out bruised, he wouldnt feed, so had to put in incubator for 1 week and fed through tube-would only tolerate breast milk)
doing well, wish id done a video from beginning) my age 36, 2 previous children all normal deliveries, i suffer with chrohns disease, and looked felt dreadful as had massive chrons flare up 6 weeks after birth, and re-admitted to hospital for massive steroid injections (kicked start me back to earth like popeye!-feel great now, until next time!!)
2 previous children all fine during and after pregnancy,

though this one By far the most difficult pregnancy, chrohns flare up most of pregnancy on and off streroids with ALL pregnancies, side affects along with other meds affected me more than children, (especially Methyldopa and labetolol for hypertension)
message me if you have any questions re my pregnancies and my experiences with medications, im not an expert just a mother with chrohns and children and can only tell you my experience, dealing with chrohns/pregnancies and side affects with steroids and high blood pressure meds

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• chrons disease
• crohn's pregnancy
• steroid use
• prednisolone

[babyprog]

thankyou!! paul, bike in cupboard waiting!!

[jackdanblake]

Check out research into hookworm inoculation as treatment for Crohns. Search wikipedia for Helminthic herapy

Also check out helminthictherapy (dot) com/

It's expensive @$3000, but it's for 5 years so it's more like $1.65 a day. I don't have a personal experience, but I heard an interview on the Radio and then looked into it online.

Beautiful Human being you grew there. We have ours at home here in Australia. Beautiful.

Be Well,

Jaq.

[williammoller9]

its eyes are just pure balck, no borun no blue no green ..its..its just freaky

[goldenthroat86]

Hi fellow Crohnie! Your baby is sooo precious!!

[ZoNLove07]

such a sweet baby! My son was born at 36 weeks too..but he is doing great a feisty 11/2 already! Time goes so fast!!

[ukp42]

Well done, he is a beautiful baby. Now he is wearing baby clothes, but turn yer back for 5 mins, thens it's a school uniform!! Aye, they grow up fast now adays, come christmas he will ask for a scooter/motor bike! lol =) Love from Scotland Paul =) xoxo