Guest guest Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 , It is very difficult for us to answer questions like yours because so many of us are in our first pregnancies, too... and few, if any of us have the medical knowledge to answer your questions with any certainty... so be aware, that my answers are just from my own experiences, from my research, and from what I have gleaned from my friends... and ALWAYS ask you ob and surgeon before making any changes in your routine, okay? :~) 1. How long should we expect to continue losing weight, and when will we start gaining? This varies so greatly from person to person it can't really be answered. It depends on how soon after wls you got pregnant, whether or not your weight had stabalized, how much you are eating, and so many other variables... everyone is different. 2. How many of you who got pregnant before the end of your first year after WLS had a high risk OB? IMHO, anyone who is under 12 months out should be considered high risk... 3. How many vitamins are you generally supposed to take a day? AGAIN, it depends on the person and their vitamin assay results! You need to get a complete vitamin assay/bloodwork done and supplement accordingly. Some women take one prenatal and supplement with other vitamins as the assay's determine, and others take two prenatals and other supplements. It should depend on YOUR bloodwork and nothing else!! Try to eat a well-balanced diet of 2000 calories per day, stay away from sugars, be sure to take the vitamins that your assays determine you need, be careful with the glucola gestational diabetes drink, it can make you dump (there are two other alternative tests you can do... one is a fasting then 2 hour after eating blood sugar and the other is the jelly bean sugar test). Hope this helps and good luck!! Sharon > Hi my name is Ibarra. I'm 27 and had my WLS on 7/16/03. So i'm > a little over 5 months out. I found out Dec. 23rd that I'm pregnant. > We were planning on waiting until the doc said it was ok, but, oops! > Anyhow, guess my due date will be around Aug. 25th, 2004. This will > be my husband and I's first's child. We tried for about 6 months > before the surgery with no results, so we are really excited, but > somewhat scared. I saw my ob/gyn last week just long enough to have > him confirm it, but today I will see him for blood tests, pap smear & > hopefully ultrasound... at least that's what he said. I would love > to get such an early ultrasound, I think it would make me alot more > confident about this whole thing... > > Anyhow, I've read that alot of new people are coming in right about > now, and most of them are asking about some of the things they can > expect. But it seems that people are just welcoming them rather than > answering their question... And of course, I have the same questions. > > Could someone please just give us newbies a general answer to some of > the following questions? How long should we expect to continue > losing weight, and when will we start gaining? How many of you who > got pregnant before the end of your first year after WLS had a high- > risk OB? How many vitamins are you generally supposed to take a > day? How many who've had they're baby had low birth weight babies? > And any other miscellaneous things that might be important to those > of us who are really in the dark right now. > > (I might be a little more in the dark cuz' this is my first so I dont > even know what to expect regularly!!) > > Thanks guys for your infor and your welcomes! > > > LRNY - 7/16/03 > 364/257(on 12/30/03) > EDD - 8/25/04 > Can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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