Hi everyone,

Well I have been gone for awhile. Getting pregnant consumed me so I felt like I was bringing the board down. But I am back and Prego!!! Yes we did invtro and were able to conceive the first time out. What luck. But I did want some advice now from those of you who have been through this before. Any stories ect. Thanks

I get banded in march. My surgeon has this thing on the sheets I noticed and they mentioned it to me too being a newly wed-- they ask all their female patients to not get pregnant until it has been a year post band. Not a problem for me since we want to wait a couple of years. Ideally I would finish grad school and lose all my excess weight and then we can see about this pregnancy thing. Though I have to admit the baby buisiness is something that is on my mind as a thing that makes me nervous because I know I would be banded. So I like to read these posts. Also, I suspect there is a decent chance my husband and I will do something non traditional. Perhaps PGD? I'm not sure- we would need to see a genetic counselor first and undergo thourough testing and all that. But PGD is pre implantation genetic diagnosis and then the embryo is implanted. So while I'm pretty sure I'm fertile and all that (no one in my family has had any trouble concieving) I do worry about the gentic illnesses that I am a carrier for and other serious neurological problems in my family that may be passed on genetically (like alternating hemiplegia of infancy), plus both my brother and I are on the autism spectrum (he is much more severe than I am), and there are other things to consider too. Plus I know my mother had very difficult pregnancies with both my brother and my self (she was dilated one week before I came out and we were both a couple months premature) but there are all sorts of variables (she did smoke through both pregnancies). I don't even let myself watch Special Delivery on TLC anymore. So reading about successful band pregnancies and healthy band babies is something I find very encouraging!