Humira and pregnancy, one silly question or two

Hi! I'm a mom to three great kids and I currently take Humira for moderate crohns. My personal thought would be to inject the thigh. I do it occasionally and it's not too terrible really. During my pregnancies I was able to stay off all meds and my hormones kept the crohns away. I did have a pretty bad flare about a month after each of my babies were born. I attribute the flare to my not starting up the meds immediately after birth. It's just that I felt so great and normal while pregnant that I always hoped the crohns would disappear permanently. Not so.

Good luck, I hope it all goes well for you!

I have to use my thighs since I have too many scars and stretch marks on my belly and not enough fat on it... I have not had issues I use the syringe tho not the pends although I have used the pends too just prefer the syringes.  Best of luck

It was my personal choice to go off meds before becoming pregnant. My GI who is one of the best in the country and has crohns herself respected that decision and backed me up but only because my cd is fairly manageable. With my last baby I was on remicade and in remission so 8 weeks after my decided last infusion my husband and I started trying and I became pregnant immediately, no time to flare. I felt great for the entire 9 mos. After delivery I delayed my remicade infusions hoping not to need them anymore and I had a flare --for me that's some consistent insane D. Remicade didn't help the flare and that's when I started Humira. It may have not been the best thing to do, not taking the meds.
You should do whatever you and your doctors decide is best.

I don't know what the medical advice is about switching injection locations, but I probably would just because your belly will eventually be too hard and round to inject there anyway. I always had hubby inject the fatty part of the back of my arm. So that's another option besides your thigh.

I flared after baby #1 and baby #3 both times around the 4 month post part. time-frame. Not sure that there's much you can do to head it off at the pass, but just discuss with your GI and have a plan in place for if that happens. With baby #1 I was not prepared and kept breastfeeding, making myself sicker - draining all of my "health reserve" so to speak and ended up having to wean her suddenly. Learned my lesson from that and introduced formula early with the next babies- a bottle or two a week so the flavor wasn't unfamiliar and baby wouldn't resist if I had to make a schedule to wean because of a bad flare. I guess you could pump a lot of milk for just in case, but I was never able to get enough to make a good stash, so formula was the next best option.

Also - found it helpful to keep a bouncer/seat/carseat/blanket/something near every toilet so if I had to make the "mad dash" I would have a safe place to put baby. You never know when you're going to have to go. :)

I can't help on the Humira, but wanted to vouch for staying on the meds. I was in remission, so I took only Pentasa through both pregnancies. The first was a breeze and I didn't even flare post partum. The second time I wasn't as compliant with my meds, then my son was in the NICU (Group B strep unrelated to CD), and I was nervous about taking anything while nursing even though I knew it was fine. I went back on when he was a couple months old, but that brief break was enough to create a new stricture and looming surgery. It's really true that a healthy mom results in a healthy baby. You also have to make sure you're healthy post partum. It takes a lot to care for a little one and to give them your best you need to be at your best. I've learned my lesson and will stay on top of things when we have baby number 3 (as soon as I figure the stricture out).

Congrats!! The best I've ever felt in my life was during both pregnancies.