Pregnancy after surgery

[PurpleIris]

Hello,
This is my first post, though I lurked in the forums often after my diagnosis and subsequent surgery. I had my AN removed in June 2013, retrosigmoid approach. I have profound hearing loss on that side after surgery but am grateful that otherwise everything went as smoothly as possible - no balance issues, no facial nerve issues, some headaches but mostly resolved, able to get back to running 5 weeks after surgery and train/run a half marathon.

My question now is that I am newly pregnant (I have a 4 year old also) and was wondering if anyone has any experience with this after surgery. I had spoken with my surgeon at my follow-up appt about what to do if I have another child, and he basically said "Your OB will send me a letter, I'll send them a letter, and they'll follow you". I'm mainly concerned about if/how this will affect my delivery options - my first birth was natural with no epidural, and after having a 9.5lb baby I'm certainly considering an epidural this time! I've looked for info about this online but haven't found much, I guess I'm mainly concerned about pushing - has anyone been told this is a problem post surgery? My appt with my midwife is not for several weeks and I'm hoping to find what information I can before that so we can work on a plan.

Thanks for reading.

[arizonajack]

I found an article on acoustic neuromas being diagnosed during pregnancy. To the right of the article are links to similar articles.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8109621

Being male, that's the extent of my contribution. 

[Kathleen_Mc]

My first child was born about 8 years post op from my first AN surgery, no special consideration needed, epidural etc. and a "natural" delivery without issue. I thought at that time I was "tumor free" and what was seen on the MRI before he was born was scar tissue, came to find out indeed it was tumor regrowth! I went on to have another child without issue with the regrowth still in there. Your neuro. doc is right, he'll send your OB a letter and the OB will send the neuro. a letter and that's likely all that will occur. It seems to me having AN surgery before or still having an AN during pregnancy/delivery is not an issue but that they just want to be aware it's there!
Kathleen