In this episode we discussed

  • Female and Male fertility in IBD

-Fears about medication effect on pregnancy

-Pre-conception Care

-When should a potential mother to be contact their

Gastroenterologist if planning to get pregnant?

  • When should they not consider trying to get pregnant.

  • What effect does active disease have on the unborn baby/foetus?

  • What is the risk of flare during pregnancy ? and how this differs in

Ulcerative Colitis versus Crohns Disease

  • At what stages of the pregnancy is an unborn child most at risk

and a whole lot more.

I hope you find this talk interesting and most of all, helpful.

Please enjoy