I'm scared to get pregnant again, my child is 2 & I j/had V Sleeve 5 months ago. I know you hv to wait 18 months that's fine, I just don't want to get fat again. Anyone feel this way or going to do this?

I heard only a year! Eek!! I planned on getting pregnant in a few months!!

I'm only 8 weeks but almost 8 months post op, my restriction at first was just me trying to get as much food in because of an appetite. Now for three last week my restriction had increased I'm sick and fluids like our liquid diet before hand is what I'm at. I heard most women Auer a baby with sleeve lose 90 percent within the first six weeks. So far I'm with a 4 lbs bounce. And that's 8 weeks. I honestly think you'll be fine. I plan on best feeding and I usually drop a significant amount of weight just because of that. Don't worry.

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wow! I really wanna get pregnant...since being sleeved I will be having my second period since being sleeved...the past 3 days I have been having very intense ovulation pain and LOTS of cervical mucus too....The hubby and i are using condoms...I hope to lose another 30-40 lbs before we try to get preggo...I was gonna wait till december to try to get pregnant...Im 38 years old....no kids....

I heard only a year! Eek!! I planned on getting pregnant in a few months!!

That's just what my surgeon @ Vanderbuilt told me

I'm only 8 weeks but almost 8 months post op' date=' my restriction at first was just me trying to get as much food in because of an appetite. Now for three last week my restriction had increased I'm sick and fluids like our liquid diet before hand is what I'm at. I heard most women Auer a baby with sleeve lose 90 percent within the first six weeks. So far I'm with a 4 lbs bounce. And that's 8 weeks. I honestly think you'll be fine. I plan on best feeding and I usually drop a significant amount of weight just because of that. Don't worry.

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Congrats! Thanks girl that makes me feel better, keep us up to date on ur pregnancy!

wow! I really wanna get pregnant...since being sleeved I will be having my second period since being sleeved...the past 3 days I have been having very intense ovulation pain and LOTS of cervical mucus too....The hubby and i are using condoms...I hope to lose another 30-40 lbs before we try to get preggo...I was gonna wait till december to try to get pregnant...Im 38 years old....no kids....

It's probably your system changing getting ready to be able to conceive! Yay!

It took is 3 years to get pregnant I have PCOS I went through all of these "top" doctors ended up doing Accupuncture & even though I only had one child, I got pregnant w/twins. Our bodies are crazy! But he's my little Angel & I guess I'm really not ready to go through all that again, it was a very rough pregnancy.

I am pretty chunky again at 9 months I have gained 60!!! Two more weeks to go!!! 39 weeks on Wednesday. I really hate this weight gain, but it seems like I have gained the most out of everyone!!! I can eat a lot more...but it doesn't justify 60!!! I will just have to see what happens after she comes out, but I am not stressing about the weight...I have a baby...my first on the way... Ummmmmm that is stressful enough!!!!

I am pretty chunky again at 9 months I have gained 60!!! Two more weeks to go!!! 39 weeks on Wednesday. I really hate this weight gain' date=' but it seems like I have gained the most out of everyone!!! I can eat a lot more...but it doesn't justify 60!!! I will just have to see what happens after she comes out, but I am not stressing about the weight...I have a baby...my first on the way... Ummmmmm that is stressful enough!!!![/quote']

My surgeon told me if I gained too much weight to go back on my post op diet & start over, that way it will fall off!

This is my biggest fear. I am beginning to love "me." There is nothing more than I want than to have a baby, however I am so scared to go back where I started! Any success stories out there?

Honestly ladies based on what I'm experiencing I don't know how I could gain even half of my weight with my stomach not giving, nausea, and just feeling over all blah. With blood volume increase, uterus, baby, possible Water weight I would suspect 25 to 30 lbs. Each baby I've had previously was 30 to 35lb gain. I'm pregnant too early, however my cravings have been much more manageable then before the surgery. I've been bouncing between 198 & 204 I've also had bowel issues due to Zofran, lost 3 lbs after a bowel movement. I love my new me, I hate that my energy is gone, I hate being sick. But I'm grateful for a fertility treatment free conception and miracle baby. I think in the long run as long as we are aware of what we eat we will be fine. I've had my days but I realize I'm not consuming my liquid. So I'm always tweaking but we have been through more difficult times than pregnancy no matter what you gain, after the first week of delivery just assume you will lose 15 lbs right away. Then as your uterus and blood volume decrease more weight loss. So you will for sure lose that weight. I don't worry, because I'm more concerned about getting my baby his/her needs met, my weight will come back off, just eating right and exercise!

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Thank you for being positive! I hope everything will go smoothly! This time next year I hope to be pregnant or trying!

I'm 30 weeks preggo.... and very surprisingly became pregnant just 5 months post op... this pregnancy has been fabulous! I have not gained a pound since becoming pregnant. I have actually lost a total of 22 lbs since first finding out. My baby is very healthy and right on track.. my ob is not concerned at all. I expect I will gain a few in these last weeks. My appetite has definitely increased... and I have given into some cravings. : ) Good luck to everyone!

I'm 30 weeks preggo.... and very surprisingly became pregnant just 5 months post op... this pregnancy has been fabulous! I have not gained a pound since becoming pregnant. I have actually lost a total of 22 lbs since first finding out. My baby is very healthy and right on track.. my ob is not concerned at all. I expect I will gain a few in these last weeks. My appetite has definitely increased... and I have given into some cravings. : ) Good luck to everyone!

This is really encouraging to hear. I do worry about not gaining enough or gaining too much. Even worse, losing it after baby. We worked so hard and went through so much (surgery and dieting)... just want to be extra careful.

Great post!

These people posting just had the surgery and are still in the honeymoon phase of it all. You can lose for up to 1.5 years give or take. I would not look at those weight gain as the end all be all. I got pregnant at 1.5 years out from the sleeve and settled into 160 for two months prior to getting pregnant. While I am probably on the high end...I gained 70 pounds. I just had my LO 5 days ago and a significant portion of that weight was water!!!! So yesterday I weighed 206. I believe I will land around 195/198 in the next week as my uterus shrinks and I lose more water. My appetite is so-so now, but I still have crazy hormones going all over the place. I really want to see where I get to in six weeks. I will post again.

Okay, every day of my pregnancy I was deep down scared about the weight. It never goes away, but it wouldn't go away even without a pregnancy! It's a fear all of us deal with because we're worried we'll fail again, only this time, with 15% of a stomach.

I'm three years out.

I reached goal in 17 months. I maintained for several months and got pregnant ten days before my 2 year anniversary. I gained 32 pounds while pregnant; 3 pounds on the dang hormone shots I had to take to get pregnant. (We did FET, frozen embryo transfer with frozen embies left over from our IVF in 2007.) How you gain is up to your body. I gained much less than I gained with my previous pregnancies prior to sleeve (97 pounds for a single, 80+ for twins) but I think that we gain a "normal" amount of weight in most cases so expecting anywhere from 25-45 is probably reasonable. It could also be more. Some women just gain more while pregnant! The only folks I've seen gain almost nothing were still in their early months post sleeve when they got pregnant.

My daughter will be 5 months old in a week. I lost the huge bulk of my baby weight before a month postpartum. As before, when closing in on goal initially, my last fifteen pounds have been slow coming off. That's perfectly normal and not something I attribute to pregnancy at all, though I admit that the lifestyle we have post baby makes it challenging to lose weight (namely, wacky hormones and sleep deprivation, which slow our loss further) but I say IT IS POSSIBLE.

Losing weight, while doubly frustrating because I feel I'm losing pounds I've already lost, is just as "easy" as it was for me before my baby. I make good choices, I watch my intake, I try to stay active and I lose (albeit slowly!) and most importantly, I still have just as much restriction as before. I can eat one single hard boiled egg or a few ounces of dense Protein in a sitting. My sleeve is no larger than it was in 2011 and so the only way to not lose weight would be to not try and to fail to be diligent about my habits.

So I'm a success story. I have 7-8 pounds left and while I might wish they'd fall off tomorrow, I know that if I'm patient and keep plugging away they'll come off eventually. I've been back in my pre-pregnancy clothes for months, though, regardless of those few pounds.

~Cheri