pregnancy with adrenal fatigue

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Hi,

My daughter and I had successfully weaned off HC this past summer after I was on

it 4 years, and she was on it a year. OK, good enough. But this fall with the

return to school and routine and stress and deadlines, we just had to go back on

it, 2.5mg/day. I hope it won't go any further than this! It's so much better

when we can make our own cortisol!

Anyway, I desperately want another baby, but I'm afraid that if I even make it

through the pregnancy (which I hear actually lessens adrenal problems for

people!), the nights of staying up with the baby and the stress of constantly

being " on-call " to breastfeed, which I like to do with my babies, will kill me.

My husband is of the same mind. I also don't let my kids cry themselves to

sleep, and I pick them up when they cry. I'm just hard-wired to do this, so

please no one give me advice about this. It's been 3 babies already and I don't

think I'm going to change. None of our kids is spoiled, they are universally

praised and people love to have them over to their homes so I think it hasn't

destroyed them. We do train our children, which for us has nothing to do with

giving them love when they cry.

I'm at the point where if I don't get pregnant soon, I won't ever have another

baby because of my age. (43) Yes I am well aware of the risks of having a baby

at this age. My son keeps begging me for a baby and he's only externalizing the

inner voice of my heart which wants just one more! I grew up in a family of four

and loved it! It was a wonderful, happy noise - MOST of the time! LOL!!

Has anyone here ever had a baby while on Cortef, and how did it go after the

baby was born? Someone told me that the adrenals absolutely plummet after

childbirth. Please relay your experiences to me, I am really just so dismal at

the proposition that we can't have one more. I need advice, warnings, and

assurances, whichever way your story goes ---

Thank you all so much!

Cherwyn