Pregnancy with a mesh abdominal hernia repair?

Alyse • 02/06/20 🌱🌈🌷 10/13/23

About 3, maybe 4 years ago I had surgery to remove my gallbladder and there were some pretty bad complications that caused both an umbilical and surgical hernia right next to one another. I had a surgery to repair them which included a mesh implant right across where my bellybutton is and then another surgery after that to revise the mesh. It still causes issues to this day.

I just found out that I'm pregnant, as of today I'm about 4 weeks and won't have my first appointment right away so I'm hoping to get some answers here. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with carrying to term with a mesh abdominal implant and if there were any complications that they experienced?

Obviously I'm going to ask my actual doctor when I have my first appointment but I'm a worry wort and am trying to calm my stupid brain.

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