pregnancy and prednisone

Okay I am 22 and have colitis since I was 17. I am currently 6 weeks pregnanct and cannot see my doctor for another month. I was having a bad flare back at Christmas time so was put on 40 mg of prednisone for 2 months and have been tapering by 5 mg every week since then. I am currently at 15 mg should be going down to 10mg today. My bowels are perfect at the moment (not thanks to the prednisone but thanks to the pregnancy hormones) wondering if I should be tapering even slower than 5 mg a week. I am concerned that since tapering has an effect on us it might have an effect on a developing fetus in the early stages. Any women out there with experience in this? I want to get off of the prednisone but I don't know if I should taper slower than 5 mg or if I should wait until I hit the second trimester to taper. I had a miscarriage before this pregnancy I just want to make sure I am doing the best I can this time. Any advice/ experience would be greatly appreciated!

I was on prednisone off and on pretty much my whole pregnancy because everytime I tapered off I got sick again. However, I tapered at 10mg each time. My daughter turned out 100% healthy, but I never went above 20mg of pred while I was pregnant. I suggest tapering now at than 5mg to allow your body to adjust, but no slower than that if you don't feel any symptoms. Maybe (and hopefully) you wont end up sick again like I did. I have since found that a slower taper worked much better. Still talk to your GI and ob/gyn. I am no medical expert.