ICP Care Team MemberMy name is Cheyenne Terry and I am the Texas ambassador for ICP Care. I am a wife and mother of 4, with my 5th due in March of 2023. In 2019, while pregnant with my son, I began experiencing severe itching in my hands, feet, legs, and belly late...
At around eight months, I started developing itchy skin all over my body. I did not think much about it as I thought it was due to dry skin or my skin stretching due to pregnancy.
I first developed intense itching on my hands and feet five days after testing positive for COVID. I contacted my midwife and she sent in orders for blood work, which came back elevated (20.7) for bile acids, and in a normal range for liver enzymes. I was diagnosed...
As a mother who has suffered loss during my second pregnancy, I have experienced firsthand the inexplicable pain and grief a woman goes through. On July 9, 2022, I suffered a miscarriage during my first trimester.
ICP Care Team MemberI am a very proud wife and mom of two beautiful boys. One son I hold in my arms and the other in my heart. My journey with Intrahepatic of Pregnancy (ICP) has been a complex and traumatic one, however the love I have for my sons have given me the...
ICP Care Team MemberHi, I’m Hannah Jew and I’m excited to be the Ohio ICP Care Ambassador. I experienced Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP) during my second pregnancy in 2020. At around 23 weeks, my back started itching and after googling my symptoms, I...
ICP Care Team MemberI’m Kirsten, the Northern California ambassador for ICP Care, and mom to one itchy baby girl - Harper. I found out I had intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy when I was 31 weeks pregnant. Four days after testing positive for COVID, my hands and...
ICP Care Team MemberMy name is Kathleen Adkisson. I am a Virginia Ambassador for ICP Care. My journey began as I began experiencing symptoms of itching on my belly during my second trimester of my first pregnancy. When I complained of how uncomfortable I was, many...
ICP Care Team MemberMy name is Meaghan Steele Moore and I’m a new mom to a little boy named Grayson living in beautiful British Columbia. I was diagnosed with ICP towards the end of my second trimester after being up night after night with severe itching on my hands...
It had been a difficult pregnancy - with Hyperemesis Gravidarum plaguing me in the first trimester to dealing with Intraheptic Cholestatis of Pregnancy. My ICP journey began in my third trimester, itching from all parts of my body that left my partner and I confused,...
I started experiencing itching at 30 weeks with my second pregnancy. At the time I experienced the symptoms, I also was waiting back for results for gestational diabetes. From doing an online search, I saw that Cholestasis of Pregnancy may be a possible cause of the...
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The nurse practitioners casual tone shifted and she implored me to alert her if this happened again or did not improve. I told her that it really had not improved much but was manageable during the day. At this time, despite, nine years of education and 2 years of residency in health care I had never heard of ICP and had no idea that my itchy hands could be more than an allergy.
I had a pretty normal pregnancy, up until about 21 weeks, when one morning I woke up with an unbearable itch all over my body. I made an appointment with my doctor, the next day he did labs
on my liver panel and bile acids.
My name is Hannah and I live in Columbus, Ohio. My back started itching when I was about 20 weeks pregnant with my second kiddo, a boy we’d name Asher, in October 2020. A whole lot of intuition and some quick googling led me to guess ICP and I quickly had my levels...
ICP Care Team MemberI am thrilled to be joining the ICP care team! I am an ICP mom and clinical pharmacist but, despite my health care background, I first learned about ICP, like many of you, in my OBGYN’s office after I had presented with itching on my hands and...
ICP Care Team MemberI am the mother of one beautiful baby boy and due with our second in June. I am also a registered nurse working specifically in gynecology and oncology. Prior to being diagnosed with ICP during my first pregnancy, I had never heard of ICP before....
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Lindsay Ann, I am an Illinois Ambassador for ICP Care. I've had two babies with ICP - my second was very ill by the time I had her at nearly 39 weeks. She had meconium and I hemorrhaged 5 days postpartum during my OBGYN rotation for my...
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Guadalupe Manrique-Maldonado, and I am the Pennsylvania Ambassador for ICP Care. In 2017, I was 36 weeks pregnant with my first baby. One day I woke up feeling different, uncomfortable. The palms of my hands and the soles of my feet were...
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Ashley Bonnes, I am the Illinois Ambassador for ICP Care. My ICP story started in 2018, while pregnant with our son. I'd just been diagnosed with gestational diabetes at 28 weeks. Only 2 weeks later, I first felt itching at 30 weeks while...
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Jolene Johnson, I am the Iowa Ambassador for ICP Care. I started experiencing itching on the soles of my feet entering third trimester. I attributed it to sitting in my car most of the day for part of my job and also, we were entering the...
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Courtnay Kenney and I am the California Ambassador for ICP Care. I had a very severe case of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy with my second pregnancy with my daughter. She was born at 35 weeks safely thanks to my medical team and to...
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Veronica Taylor, I am the North Carolina Ambassador for ICP Care. I am a wife and mother of 3 beautiful children. After experiencing multiple losses, my husband and I had a baby boy, Evan, in 2015. He is our rainbow baby and my pregnancy...
ICP Care AmbassadorMy name is Tiffani Ice, I am the Virginia Ambassador for ICP Care. I was diagnosed with ICP during my third pregnancy. I had never heard of Cholestasis prior, so I thank ICP Care for supplying the knowledge and support I needed to self-advocate for...
My 35 week appointment was cancelled due to Covid. When I called in Tuesday questioning Laylee Joy’s movements, my nurse who I had seen for every appointment said it was normal for babies to have sleepy days.
New Evidence from two new studies have been published that support the benefits of Ursodiol to treat Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy.