When I found out I had MS one of the first questions was can we still have more children? To which I was super glad to find out that not only can you be pregnant with MS, it is encouraged because while you're pregnant symptoms (can) go away. Doctors theorize that your body is working so hard on creating another life that it stops attacking itself.
That being said it is still a little bit scary because you have to go off of medication, which makes me wonder what if symptoms come back.
I have six children,this pregnancy is planned to be our last. I have been blessed with very good pregnancies no real complications with any of my pregnancies (except after my second child was born and we were trying for number three I did have a tubal pregnancy which resulted in a tubal rupture, but amazingly I was able to have four more children after that easily.)
So even though the doctors encourage me to get pregnant, and I have good pregnancies I'm still really nervous.
The week I found out I was pregnant was the week of Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving I started having some severe abdominal pains, like the pains I had with my tubal pregnancy. That scared me so much Dr. ordered up an ultrasound to which we found there was no baby in the fallopian tube it must've just been indigestion from too much Thanksgiving food yeah!Things where fine again. Fast forward a month. We went on a trip to Mexico the week before Christmas, which was really fun and rewarding because we were able to provide food for some families that where in need .For anyone that has children you know that a family vacation is stressful, especially with a toddler that wants to touch everything that he shouldn't. And if you look into MS you'll know that relapses or episodes can be triggered from stress. Well I think that trip that was really nice had just enough stress that it triggered an episode and my hand started going numb again. This worried me a little but not too much I decided when I got home I would just take it easy. But I wanted my house to be back in order and needed to go to the store to buy food and to do laundry and cleaning… I did not relaxed the day after. The next day was Friday morning I started having lower back pain that felt a lot like minor contractions. I told my husband and the kids that I needed to have a day off and just lay down all day not to stress about anything. I did, the contractions did not go away they did not get better they got a little worse. Now I was worried about miscarriage. Thankfully I was able to get a good nights sleep and Saturday morning I woke up feeling better and numbness was slightly better and if I kept laying down the contractions were minimal. It's now Wednesday after Christmas and if I lay down all day I can keep the contractions under control but if I get up at all I have contractions that quickly get painful. Wednesday was the first day my doctor was available so I called him this morning (Wednesday) and I had an appointment. Baby is doing great looks like the symptoms are more MS attacks and not issues with the pregnancy. Which given the two choices I'm glad it's just MS and not problems with the pregnancy.
