Banded and Pregnant

EverSoQute · October 29, 2005

Is there anyone banded and pregnant? can you be pregnant and keep your fills or must you have the Fluid removed?

Eversoqute

Jachut · October 29, 2005

Not planning on ever being pregnant again but interested in the answer. I had a health third pregnancy in which I gained no weight whatsoever and my baby was perfectly fine, I ate very carefully and followed weightwatchers throughout because I was petrified about how tired and sick I'd be feeling if I got even heavier than I was.

So I woud say technically, if you're overweight there's no need as long as you can get in about 1500 calories of very high quality, nutritious food a day, maybe a slight unfill if necessary. But you never know either whether hormonal pressures and pressure from your growing baby will make your band tighter, I certainly could barely eat by the end of my third pregnancy.

If having a band is anything like having a 3.7 kg baby sitting in a very high breech position blocking off your stomach, this weight is going to literally fall off me. I could see it week by week falling of my face and arms, while my bump grew. When I came home from hospital I was over 10kg lighter than when Eliza had been conceived, I had no recurrence of my pre-eclampsia that I suffered in my first two pregnancies despite being a good 20kg heavier before I started.