This clinic accompanies women who live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and are approaching pregnancy. IBD calls for close medical monitoring at every stage of the journey — from before conception, through the pregnancy itself, and after the birth.
Before pregnancy: you’ll get multidisciplinary professional advice covering your diet (including checking for deficiencies and guiding you toward a varied, sufficient diet); a review of your medication, with recommendations for any changes needed for your safety; and an assessment of how your disease has behaved over the six months leading up to the pregnancy, so that you go in without active disease or flare-ups.
During pregnancy: you’ll have both high-risk pregnancy monitoring and close gastroenterology follow-up. That includes ruling out nutritional deficiencies (and advising on them if found), and watching your weight to catch any gain that doesn’t match the stage of pregnancy, since that can lead to preterm birth or low birth weight.
The vast majority of pregnancies and births in women with IBD go smoothly, with a healthy mother and baby. Research shows that combined monitoring and multidisciplinary care lead to better pregnancy outcomes and benefit women’s long-term health.
