Pregnancy Post WLS (RNY)

I have been craving peanut butter sandwiches too!  (and just spoonfuls of PB)

I have done the carbonated waters to suffice my want... and an occasional coke zero. 

It's just my mind having an internal war with itself... 

Yeah, the head-game was pretty rough during pregnancy for me too. For me it came down to "my sanity is important for baby's health, too," but it was still really hard!

Have you tried PB2? It's great stuff, you can mix it into strawberry Greek yogurt and it tastes kind of like PB&J. I mixed it into chocolate milk, too, to get my calcium in.

I do have that, haven't tried it yet, though! no milk for me... I take my calcium chews for that and my labs have been great. 

I will definitely have to try it with greek yogurt!

Glad to hear the chews have been doing the trick!

Feel free to PM any time if you need a preggo buddy. I didn't know anybody who'd had a baby post-op when I was pregnant, and I had a rough time trying to figure stuff out. So I'm happy to help however I can! :)

I tried the PB2 in my yogurt... and soon realized it tasted funny... the PB2, I thought we just bought was really the one that had expired in late 2015... yay. 

Trying again today with the good batch!

I have always been overweight.  When I was pregnant with my first child, I did not want to gain much weight.  I had never lost weight and kept it off, so I was afraid to gain too much weight.  My doctor said 10 pounds was enough to gain up until the last month.  If I was craving something like ice cream, I knew the nutrients  were not what the baby needed, it was head hunger. Although this was before WLS, it did help me to keep my weight gain to a minimum.

Eating more carbs is fine.  But I would stick with complex carbs so you don't trigger your appetite.  The baby will get the good stuff, you will be left with the junk food.

hi there and congratulations! i'm currently 9 months pregnant (37.5 weeks). my weight gain has been average--i don't love it but i know its what had to happen, and i have a plan to get back on track as soon as this baby is out! 

i have a scale, but decided not to use it during pregnancy. i'm weighed at my midwife appointments and that's it. most months i gained only a little and there were a couple of months where i lost weight. then i had about 2 months with steady gain, and then back to very little gain. this is NOT because i'm making good choices--i am by no means a saint. its because most food has been kind of unappetizing to me, and because as the baby has grown, i've been increasingly uncomfortable and after a few bites i'm full and disinterested. 

my sister (who is a normie) gave me good advice which was that if i let fear of weight creep into my mind then it would invade my whole pregnancy. i think that applies to WLS'ers and normies alike. no one wants to gain weight. so i decided to trust my body and my baby to do what they needed to do. i really didn't want to spend this time (my first and possible only pregnancy) being obsessed with weight. i spent far too many years doing that in the past. so that's my take on it. 

i have carbonation every day---i love plain seltzer and prefer it to plain water. it think fear of carbonation is a WLS old wives tale. as far as carbs go, i've been having quite a bit of them---i don't recommend it but i'm being honest. they are about the only foods agreeing with me lately. 

not sure if you have had the glucose test yet but i did both the 1 hour and 3 hour test. i did fine with the 1 hour, but the 3 hour made me really sick. i knew it would happen because of my RNY, and i also knew what the results would be (high glucose at hour one, and then down to very low glucose but hour 3--due to dumping duh). and midwife understood as well. 

anyway congrats again! and i'm happy to chat, please feel free to PM me. 

You have amazing insight and I agree with you 100%! Thank you for sharing this and I am looking forward to everything that is to come. 

Carbs, as well is the only thing that really is appetizing to me, but I wan's sure if it was my "old self" creeping back in or just the pregnancy hormones...lol 

I refused the glucose test, because I am not a very graceful "dumper"... I requested blood to be drawn and thankfully it was granted/approved. 

I have some days where I feel I can eat a truckload, and others where I eat like a bird... So, I am doing my darndest to find that happy medium. If I haven't eaten a lot, supplement with a protein shake, but trying to focus on dense protein rather than the liquid.

hang in there! for me, pregnancy really affected my eating habits. pre-pregnancy, i had a very regular appetite and was like clockwork with hunger and tolerating all foods. and it wasn't difficult to follow a bariatric plan. pregnancy really changed that. dense proteins and most raw and cooked vegetables literally make me nauseous!! i'm even grossed out by rotisserie chicken right now. like you, i also have an appetite that comes and goes. 

i was also thinking of the blood test versus the glucose test and it sounds like you made the right choice!

honestly at 7+ years post WLS, i don't feel like i'm going back to old ways. i feel confident and not food-obsessed like i once was. as far as pregnancy changes, i've tried to roll with it and i just followed what i could tolerate and enjoy. and i have ZERO intention of continuing this once the baby is born.