Pregnant after hernia repair?

 I have had two hernia repairs with mesh, and one of them was HUGE.  I am currently pregnant and wondering if anyone here has been pregnant after a hernia repair with mesh?  I am wondering how it will be near the end and if I will have trouble.  My hernia repairs were pretty high (up near my sternum) so I think I will be ok, but I just wondered if anyone had any experience with this.

I had mine repaired the same time I had my tummy tuck completed back in 2006.  I have had no problems with mine.  My hernia was right at my belly button area....Good luck!  Stacey

I had a hernia repair with mesh in 2006.  The hernia was quite large, about the size of a junior football, and like yours located below near sternum.  I was pregnant with my first baby in 2008.  I didn't show quite as much, but it was my first baby and also because I carried him high and more under the mesh.  The only problem I experienced as the baby grew was sometimes feeling pain at the edge of the mesh--almost like a sawing/cutting feeling.  it would stop if I changed positions and/or shifted the baby.  It didn't do any damage and doctors said it was nothing to worry about.

During that pregnancy, I developed an umbilical hernia; it slipped out under the mesh.  They opted not to repair it since we planned to have another baby.  It has also grown to the size of a junior football but poses no danger since it's an umbilical hernia.  Looks like I have a huge baby head or bottom sticking way out.  It--and any others I might develop with this pregnancy-- will be repaired after this baby is born.

Good luck!