Hi everyone. I see no one has posted here yet. I'm 24 and married. Right now I am the happy mother of four dogs- Hailey, Daisey, Molly, and Tess. They are my babies and I love them to no end. BUT, who knows what the future holds for my hubby and me. There could be a baby one day. I was just wondering if there is anyone out there pregnant with the VSG or has had a baby with the VSG? Would you mind sharing your experiences?

Or, even if you have had kids before the VSG and you now have the sleeve, maybe you can share what you think it could be like to be pregnant with the sleeve.

Thanks,

Rose

Goodness, I couldn't imagine having any more kids at this age either. My brother is 50 years old and he and his wife just had a baby girl about a month ago! No way, my youngest is 16 and soon I will be an empty nester.

OMG I think if I found out I was pregnant at my age (51) I'd have to slash my wrists ... my boys are 30 and 26 and I have a 4 year old grandson ... those are the only babies I want in my house - grandbabies and someone else's babies.

Me and you both!!! He will be over 70 years old before she graduates from college, can you imagine!!

I had one and half successful pregnancies with my band.....breast fed all three with it....and pumped all week while recuperating.......I will look for the link of the articl I just printed for my doctor on managing the ob visits for bariatric patients.

I think the one thing both of us would have done different this last pregnancy (ended w/ premiee due to emergency band removal due to strangulation) would have done monthly Protein checks and realized the intermittent leg swelling was not related to my ppregnancy .....but the protein deficiecy due to band..

I had never swelled with my othe two.....but I was considered a "geriatric" pregnancy so every one kept blowing me off....even when I had belly pain......told to not worry...all pregnancy issues (not my ob...his partner.....mine freaked out when he got back and realized what happened!

But there was a list of other tests the should do....... I will hunt it down for you

My DD got pregnant the first month she tried.

She was about 1 1/2 years post op from gastric bypass. My grandson was very healthy and weighed a little over 7 lbs. She has not lost the weight she gained being pregnant though.

Speaking of older moms, my boss had twins at the age of 50. She was almost 51. They were born on New Years Eve and she was 51 on March 1st.

Twins!! At 51?!! Oh my, I can't imagine having one baby at that age, let alone two. She must be a special lady.

Speaking of older moms, my boss had twins at the age of 50. She was almost 51. They were born on New Years Eve and she was 51 on March 1st.

If I got preggers today I'd have to dig my eye out with a rusty nail.

She is crazy. She doesn't have time for those kids and they call their babysitter Mommy.

She is a very busy attorney. Her husband has a son, she has an adopted daughter and a bio son. So they thought they needed a child together. That makes 5 kids in all. They are on a one month vacation to Minnesota right now, so I think she is finally getting a taste of what it's actually like to be a mom to 5 kids. the babysitter/nanny didn't go with them.

AT 51 All I want to do is PRACTICE not have any!!

If I got preggers today I'd have to dig my eye out with a rusty nail.

And that's putting it mildly!

AT 51 All I want to do is PRACTICE not have any!!

ME TOO!

You guys crack me up! It is good to be able to read here and start my day off with a nice chuckle.

You guys crack me up! It is good to be able to read here and start my day off with a nice chuckle.

Happy to be of service -- I always start my day here, too. :lol0:

fertile myrtle is about right!!! i had my surgury 10 August 2009 and at 3 months out of surgury im 7 weeks pregnant!!!! omg!!! I called my dietition straight away and im now on 1 slow release multi and elivit (translation 2 x horse tablets) I then called my surgon who was very happy for me and told me not to worry about a thing. bottom line is this..... there are people in the world starving having babies. The baby will take what it needs. The responsibility is now on my head to make sure i simply follow my outlines *shrugs* he said that if anything i was in better condition now than ever before, you knowwwww looking after yourself eating well, exercising daily and dropping bucket loads of weight!!! what better conditions to fall pregnant!!!

so.... at 7 1/2 weeks i feel sick as!!! i didnt get morning sickness with my first baby (well not like this anyway) i am having trouble eating and drinking....all day!!! The desire to eat has gone out the window (unless its something i really shouldnt be eating) typical craving right!!!

anywho... will keep you all posted

cheers

ange.

Ange -

Wow - and congratulations. I wish you a healthy and happy pregnancy. Keep us posted on your journey ... I know there are others on the forum (Rosey, Tiffy) that want to have babies and they'll be interested to read your journey, I am sure. I would say at this point in the game, eat whatever you can get down - try to make health choices; however, if you can't get anything down that isn't healthy, you still need to get in calories as the baby will take what it needs and you don't want to be malnourished. Keep up your fluids too.

Congratulations Ange! I don't know how I missed this. I hope you are doing well. Keep us posted, I hope to get pregnant so I'd be very interested in how things go for you.

I'm glad someone wrote about this. I'm actually dying to have kids. I just turned 30 and I've been waiting for things to fall into place (get a job, get a house, lose weight) b4 i have kids. But here I am at 30 and none of that has happened for me. I was like forget it, i just want a baby. So I went to my endo (i have pcos) he said he would rather me weigh less but it wasn't impossible to have a baby at my weight. but i told him i was starting to contemplate WLS. The lap band to be exact. He was super duper supportive. He thought it would be the best thing for me and he rooted for me to get it. However he told me I should get gastric bypass and not the sleeve. I was NOT cool with that. Then he said you know what you should get actually, the new one, whats it called, the sleeve. And I didn't really do research on it so I was like no. lol. But now that i've looked into it I'm dead set on the sleeve.

But he told me he has a patient who had bypass and is pregnant now and she's doing just great! Also I spoke to a girl on OH that is pregnant now after she got her sleeve. I'm so anxious to get the sleeve so i can loose weight and have kids already! I want 2 or 3 kids. I wanted more but realistically i don't know if it will happen because i wanted to space them 3-4 years apart and i'm already 30. not to mention by the time i get the sleeve and get to the point where doctors say its ok to have kids i'll probably 32 or 33. way later than i wanted to have kids. i feel like right now i'm running out of time. i want babies! lol.