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I want to get pregnant before one year of being banded.

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bmendoRNurse    0

bmendoRNurse
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I am 29 and I have wanted to have a baby for many years, I have had a few successes at getting pregnant but because of my weight they ended in miscarriages. My new OB/GYn says that she can prevent those miscarriages this time but its best for me and baby to lose weight. So i have set a goal to lose 100lbs before december and i have 52lbs more to go, hopefully i can lose more than a 100lbs, What are thoughts getting pregnant a few months before the 1year the band doctor says i should weight?

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melzie_99    22

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I am 29 and I have wanted to have a baby for many years, I have had a few successes at getting pregnant but because of my weight they ended in miscarriages. My new OB/GYn says that she can prevent those miscarriages this time but its best for me and baby to lose weight. So i have set a goal to lose 100lbs before december and i have 52lbs more to go, hopefully i can lose more than a 100lbs, What are thoughts getting pregnant a few months before the 1year the band doctor says i should weight?

I am also 29 and wanting a baby, but my dr said I needed to wait at least 18 MONTHS before I even start trying. I don't really want to wait that long, but I definitely don't want to be pregnant at my current size for health reasons. My dr did tell me about patients who get pregnant a few months after surgery accidentally and they were ok but they really suggest against it. I don't think it would be a big deal to do it before the one year mark, but personally I would want to be able to focus on myself a little longer to make sure I can be the person I need/want to be when the child comes along, you know? Either way, good luck to you. :)

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TracyW2    137

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I got pregnant 4 months after being banded. Me and baby are just fine. I was able to get all my baby weight off and get back to losing weight in no time. My baby was actually born one day before my band anniversary.

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Sugargirl    1

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I got pregnant 4 months agfter getting the band too and so far I am having a good pregnancy. I have no complaints.. I have gained 14 lbs. I really hope I can lose that weight after giving birth...

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amandac82    0

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I had a very intentional pregnancy (with IVF) 7 months after having lapband. This was my one shot and I took it. Do whatever is going to make you happy. My pregnancy is going great so far

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lauragshsu    6

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I had a friend get pregnant 6 weeks after being banded, and was fine.

The reason they suggest waiting (and my Dr also recommended 18 months of waiting) is because of several things. Some want you to wait because you're still healing. others don't want you to aggrevate the band with vomiting (morning sickness). The main reason I've been told is because the first 12-18 months you are losing rapidly and it might be unhealthy for you to be pregnant while losing that quickly.

I waited a year before having my IUD out, and we are TTC now. I feel my weight loss has slowed to a safer level.

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Heather_8.1.14    65

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Good luck on your weight loss journey and your TTC journey. I was banded on 2.22.10 and got pregnant in October of '10. I was about 8 months post op and had lost 75lbs. My surgon knew ahead of time that one of my main reasons for this sugery was so that I could have a healthy pregnancy. When my husband I felt we were ready, I asked for my surgons "blessing", she told me that she was very proud of my success and my loss, as well as my health conditions improving, and gave me the OK to get pregnant.

So here I am starting my 3rd trimester of pregnancy :) I am due at the end of July and baby and I are doing great :)

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lauragshsu    6

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Well, I just found out yesterday I'm pregnant (about 4 weeks now). Yay!

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TracyW2    137

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Laura - Congrats. I hope you have a happy and healthy nine months!!

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melzie_99    22

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Well, I just found out yesterday I'm pregnant (about 4 weeks now). Yay!

Aww...congrats on the baby AND your weight loss success!

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honk    780

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My doctor says to wait 1 year. You are only 29 believe it or not you have the time to wait.

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Tuckersmommy2010    4

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We hubby and I tried to get pregnant ( W/ a second baby ) for about 6 months and nothing happened... Finally i decided to go back to school and work on getting lap band. I am being banded June 30th.. ( 10 days! ) I want to lose about 100 pounds before getting pregnant again. I remember how heart breaking it was to try to get pregnant and each test coming up negative. It seemed as if all of my friends were getting pregnant and i wasn't. At times i felt jealous of them. I remember getting on Facebook and crying when i would see my friends status' saying they were pregnant... : (

Hopefully within a year we can start trying!

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aliciab    8

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My doctor told me clearly that a year has nothing to do with it. If I get pregnant and my OB/GYN says I'm healthy enough to have a healthy baby and everything is good then I have his blessing. He is aware that it is not so easy for some of us to get pregnant and when the blessing comes, it comes. If we need to unfill, we'll unfill and start again after the baby is born.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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