RE: Pregnant at 3 mo post op New member

[Guest guest]

Kathy V wrote: Hi - I know even on this board that not many people

get pregnant quite as soon as 3 months, but I have seen some.

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There are some members in here that were pregnant BEFORE/DURING their

WLS, (was undetected by pregnancy test before surgery) or within a

week or two afterwards and their pregnancies progressed normally with

strict dietary/nutritional/protein intake and close obstetrical

monitoring of their pregnancies. I don't know if we currently have

any of those women or if they have all delivered and no longer read

the messages in here. By reading back through the gazillion archived

messages and asking new questions as you have them, you will find

this a most informative and supportive group!

Welcome!

Sheila, L&D/NICU RN

#315 pre WLS/#160 pre-pregnancy/#175+/- currently ($^#&@ those CLOMID

pounds anyway! lol)

Mommy to Blake 9/25/94

Open RNY- Columbus Ohio 1/25/00

Wife to Jim 5/26/01

Mommy to Christian 10/24/02

[Guest guest]

I replied before even reading message 28557- lol

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Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:01 pm

Subject: Our Miracle Baby is Here

Well, after a very long 9 months, our miracle baby is here. I had

Lap RNY on 6-23-03 and found out a week later that I was 1 month

pregnant. Hospital just messed up. Anyway, it was rough, I was sick

the entire time, but it was worth it. Shelby Faith made her arrival

on 2-18-04 weighing in at 6 lbs. 8 ozs......and a head full of black

hair. Will post pics when I have a chance. I'm recovering well from

the C-section, her big sister thinks she's a keeper (for now), and we

just couldn't be happier!

Slone

Mom to Shelby & big sis le

[Guest guest]

Kathy,

Welcome to the group!! I would love to talk to you sometime as we live very

close to each other. I live in New Castle and you are in Newark. I haven't been

able to find anyone that is going through the same thing as me that lives close

by. I also had my surgery with Dr. Wynn on 10/16/02. I was reading your profile

and could really relate to everything you were saying. Please email me privately

sometime so we can talk at applekrazee@.... Hope to talk to you soon.

DE

RNY 10/16/02

Katelyn 6/94

Miscarriage w/triplets 9/03

EDD#2 8/2/04

" Kathy V " kalliemj@...> wrote:

>Hi - I am so glad I found this site.  I am a member of

>Obesityhelp.com and several people refered me to this group.  It is

>so comforting to see other people having healthy pregnancies.  I know

>even on this board that not many people get pregnant quite as soon as

>3 months but I have seen some.

>

>I am now 4 mo post op & 6 weeks pregnant.  I just went today for my

>HCG quant and progesterone level screen blood work.   6 yrs ago I got

>pregnant quite quickly and unexpectedly with our 1st son.  He was

>born in Dec 97' After he was born I got 1 depo shot so I would not

>get pregnant " right " away.  But we did want to have our kids close

>together.  God had other plans.

>

>I was diagnosed with PCOS after Matt was born. It took about 2 1/2

>yrs to get pregnant again and that included having my fallopian tubes

>flushes, my ovaries " drilled " and taking several rounds of clomid and

>glucophage.  Unfortunately I lost that baby due to a trisomy 16 (Gene

>problem).  I also had a progesterone difficency and probably could

>not have sustained that pregnancy anyway as they like the prog. level

>above 30 & my was a 7.

>

>After the miscarriage, which was very hard - somehow I never thought

>about how hard something like that would be, now that I've

>experienced it, well I don't wish it on anyone.  Anyway - that was

>late September 00' The day I dreaded more then anything was April

>23rd, the due date of the baby I'd miscarried.  I prayed so hard to

>God to let me be pregnant before that day came as I did not know how

>I'd bear the hollowness.  In Jan we started clomid again and up the

>dosage. I got pregnant in March and was born Dec 01'

>

>My WLS was on October 15th 2003.  I've lost approximately 75 lbs. We

>did not use a formal methosd of BC because I honestly assumed we'd

>have to try at least a little to get pregnant again after everyrthing

>we went thorugh to have .  We avoided sex around my ovulation

>times but obviously that was not enough. My biggest fear is making

>sure the baby is nutritionally sound.  I don't know how many calories

>I need to consume - and How I will get them in.  I assume I'll do it

>with protein shakes.   After that my concerns lay with myself and

>everything I am putting my body through.  How will the weight loss

>work now? How much harder will this make losing weight - will I ever

>get below 200 now? lol.  

>

>This is already more information then you need but if you want

>my " full " story it is journaled on OH

>http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=V1068352105

>I wish everyone a healthy pregnancy.

>

>Kathy V.

>

>

>

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