Pregnancy after different types of WLS

 Thank you everyone!! You've all given me plenty to think about!! i had pretty much decided on either the RnY or DS, I had never heard of the VSG before, so now I will research that too!! I have my consult with my dr on Monday, so hopefully the ball will get rolling and I can start the process quickly!!

I had a DS in '08 and got pregnant with my son when I was about a year and a half out.  My pregnancy was great, no hypertension like I'd dealt with when pregnant with my daughter pre-DS.  I ate like a horse and ended the pregnancy smaller than I'd started out (but I am a DSer who didn't make goal so that wasn't a bad thing.)  I really did have to force down as much protein as possible and I chose to drink some caloric beverages so I wouldn't have ketones all the time (there's some speculation that ketones could hurt a developing fetus.)  My labs stayed decent during pregnancy, but my iron stores did get pretty low.  They're coming back now, a few months postpartum.  I stayed on pretty much the same vitamin regimen as pre-pregnancy, but my body just didn't want to use that iron, dangit.

I also have PCOS.  It took a year and a half plus Clomid to get pregnant with my pre-op baby, but I got pregnant the first time we timed it properly after I had my DS and had my IUD removed about a year and a half post-DS.  I really do think malabsorptive surgeries might be better than purely restrictive ops for PCOS, but obviously that's not a medical opinion.

My boy was a bit lighter at birth than his sister and he's a slimmer baby than she was.  She was pure chunk.  At any rate, breastfeeding has gone fine for both babies, but they just seem to have different builds. 

I hope you have great results from WLS and that you're holding your own little bundle a couple short years from now!

 Its hard to say which is best and which  I had Open RNY  I suffered a blood clot in my lung after surgery and so now everyday I have to give myself injections during the pregnancy of a very exxpensive blood thinner  just in case  A blood clot can happen after any suregry so base it on the RNY  I have been told by a couple different drs that us WLS ladies seem to have gastric issues during pregnancy  I myself develpoed some odd pain in my upper abdomen  at times excrutiating  but seemed to go away after a few weeks  Other then making sure baby is getting nutrients I think any surgery is comparable  I did lose one pregnancy after WLS but I believe it was was too soon to get pregnant  The only other pain in the butt is now that I am 35 weeks my tummy has obviously stretched and my scar from surgery is sore and itchy