The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: Pregnancy-Safe RA Relief...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 14... By Mariah Z. Leach4 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments0 comments
Pregnancy and Parenting with Arthritis Study by the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance... could relate to the specific challenges I was facing because of my arthritis. That’s one of the reasons I decided to write the RA Pregnancy Chronicles... By Mariah Z. Leach2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments0 comments
The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: Morning Sickness and Other Unpleasantness...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 9... By Mariah Z. Leach3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments0 comments
The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: The Post-Birth RA Flare...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 32... By Mariah Z. Leach4 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments1 comments
The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: Balancing Acts & Difficult Decisions...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 30... By Mariah Z. Leach4 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: The Magic R-Word...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 12... By Mariah Z. Leach3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments5 comments
The RA Pregnancy Chronicles: RA Friendly Baby Gear...The RA Pregnancy Chronicles is a series of posts that share my experiences being pregnant while living with RA. This post was written during Week 18... By Mariah Z. Leach5 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments2 comments
Mamas Facing Forward – A Community to Help Mamas Facing Chronic Illnesses Move Forward... hopes that women in the future wouldn’t have to feel as alone and unsupported as I did, I started writing the RA Pregnancy Chronicles to share my... By Mariah Z. Leach3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments0 comments
Tips for a Tolerable Pregnancy...When I made the decision to become pregnant, one of the chief factors I weighed was how my body would handle the pregnancy. I had long heard about... By Tamara Haag5 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments2 comments
New FDA Pregnancy Labeling Standards – Not As Boring As It Sounds!!... pregnancy and breastfeeding – and if the first half of that sentence makes you want to fall asleep, please bear with me!! I totally understand how the nitty... By Mariah Z. Leach3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments1 comments
Trying to Conceive During My RA Diagnosis... successfully conceive and go on to have a safe and healthy pregnancy and birth.1 It is not very well understood if having RA has any serious effect on... By Janeil Whitworth3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments3 comments
"Pregnancy in Rheumatic Diseases" at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting... better while pregnant – but to my surprise flared badly during my second pregnancy. So hopefully rheumatologists will use these new statistics to help... By Mariah Z. Leach4 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments0 comments
RA and Pregnancy... About 50% to 60% of women with RA may experience an improvement in symptoms during pregnancy. However, if you are pregnant and have RA, it may be... By Editorial Team3 min readBookmark for later
Book Review: “Arthritis, Pregnancy, And The Path To Parenthood” By Suzie Edward May... pregnancy (and my chances of getting pregnant in the first place). Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find as much information about this topic as I... By Mariah Z. Leach3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
It Takes Two to Tango, It Takes Three to Get Pregnant... relationship decisions. In this article, I’ll talk specifically about pregnancy but I will re-visit relationships as a whole later. I recently had... By Monica Y. Sengupta3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments6 comments
Safety of RA Drug Treatments in Pregnant and Nursing Women... may improve for many women during pregnancy, many pregnant women with RA may still need to use pain control medications and medications to control... By Editorial Team6 min readBookmark for later
Methotrexate Access... methotrexate can lead to severe birth defects, including spina bifida. Some people who become pregnant while taking methotrexate may want to end their pregnancy... By Editorial Team3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments1 comments
This Decision is Between My Husband and Me . . . and My RA... would be more manageable to add infant care to the job of caring for her. My husband and I agreed to wait before attempting a second pregnancy, and... By Tamara Haag3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments0 comments
Pregnancy and the Remission Expectation... process of adoption. I was in so much pain, I didn’t see how I could handle pregnancy. However, about a year later a number of factors came together, the... By Tamara Haag4 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments2 comments
RA After Child Birth...Even though the symptoms of RA may improve for most women during pregnancy, typically there is a flare of symptoms at some point during the first 8... By Editorial Team4 min readBookmark for later
