Having a newborn is a lot of work, I won't lie, but many mothers manage to prevail under adverse conditions and in extreame circumstances. Motherhood will strain all of your physical emmotional and mental resources which depending on your situation, may not always be a good option for those with severe ilness. That being said, if you choose to have a baby despite the odds being stacked against you, the love you feel for the tiny life you hold in your arms will provide you with the strength you need to acomplish what is necessary to ensure your baby is healthy and happy.
I have posted some advice on stratagies that worked for me on how to minimize the stress of new parenthood.
Breast feed, this requires no prep or extra clean up whatsoever and is always right there when you need it. When my daughter came home from the hospital, if I had a hard day and was feeling ill, we would hole up in the bed with a book/TV/laptop and doze in and out between feedings. I would keep diapers etc. beside the bed and get up only to eat/go to the bathroom. breastfeeding is also great for the health of mom and baby and makes life easier since breastfeed babies have less colic and better immune systems which means fewer illnesses and infections
Consider co-sleeping, baby and mom get much more sleep this way, I barely have to wake up to feed and my daughter never cries at night because she is secure beside mom.
Give yourself permission to ignore the house work. Yup, thats right, it will still be there when you're feeling more up to it.
If you can afford it consider a doula or a mothers helper and dont be afraid to ask for help from family and friends when it comes to meals, grocries and chores. Also insist that if family want to visit baby, that they come prepared to help, you should not have to "entertain" and be expected to do all the extra work involved in having guests at your home.
Give hubby certian responsabilities that you can both agree on. ie. hubby does an hour of child care in the morning before work so mom can have an extra hour to sleep or attend to personal grooming/chores etc. or maybe he picks up grocries on the way home from work. I find men are like children when it comes to chores, rather than ask my husband to do a specific chore, which in my case is always met with hostility, i will instead give him a few options i.e. he can choose between doing the dishes or cleaning the bathroom. Rather than being angry that I asked him to help with the house, he is happy to choose the chore he thinks is easiest of the two, lol.
I think it would also be helpfull to have an emerg. plan for extreame situations. discuss with your partner and family about who will care for baby in the event mom has to be hospitalized. This may include family members working in shifts, dad using vacation time to stay home or putting aside income to hire a nanny if need be.This may provide you with some peace of mind, knowing your little one will always be looked after, no matter what.
Lots of woman without Crohns become ill after pregnancy for many reasons, they do not have the forwarning that someone with a diagnosed illness has to prepare, it's not always easy, but one way or another we all manage to make it work.
I had an awful preg. severe diearreha, excruciating abdominal pain and so weak I could hardly get out of bed, my hair was falling out in clumps I had rashes all over and I measured two full months larger than my date (i dropped forty pounds of what i'm guessing was fluid within two days of delivery). I was pre diagnosis when I had my daughter, but she was born at 27 weeks gestation, my guess is from crohns related issues, but they never really could tell me what was wrong. I also developed an infection in my uterus from the c-section.
Dispite being quite ill with what I now know was a flare and also a uterine infection and recovering from my c-section I managed to make meals for my self and husband and clean the house, pump breast milk every three hours night and day and drive myself to the hospital to sit next to my daughter in the NICU for ten hours every day. We moms are capable of increadable feats!
Good luck to all the future moms out there!
(Thank God!) 
