TTC

My husband and I would like to start "letting it go" soon.  We already have 3 kids and I am 9 months out from being sleeved but I am at my doctors goal and my labs look good and I stabalized.  My docs gave me the go ahead whenever we want to try however we are getting stationed in California in 4 weeks and I wanna wait until after we move to let it go.  How long did it take after WLS to conceive?  I have always conceived within 2 months of trying so I have never had a problem with getting pregnant.  I am just wondering if I will be more fertile (if that is possible).

I am almost a year out and found out on Halloween that I am pregnant.  Around 6 weeks now.  We were not trying but it happened.  I have read that you become much more fertile after losing the weight.

Good luck!!!!!!

Got my IUD out in March, waited until May 1st for my short term disability insurance to become effective in case I went on maternity leave in 40 weeks. 40 weeks later I was collecting insurance for my FMLA maternity leave! (glad I paid the insurance premium!) So umm like May 1st I was pregnant. Weight loss tends to make us healthier and hence more fertile.

Where are you stationed at in CA? I grew up in Los Alamitos, a now closed military base. My dad was stationed in Long Beach for most of my childhood.

Good luck!

My husband will be working at Los Alamitos!!  It is a reservist base but He will be one of the 5 that are active duty working there.  Did you like it?  We should only be there for 3ish years.  I am excited:)

I am apparently a fertile myrtle (as it sounds like is the case with you).  With my first pregnancy I got pregnant as soon as I went off the pill (we were still using other forms of bc even) and with my second pregnancy I got pregnant the day I said "maybe we should just stop birth control and see what happens".  If you're already pretty fertile, I don't see the weight loss being able to change things much.  I was sleeved last August, and at my six month visit, my labs were great, my weight loss had stabilized, and I was very close to a normal BMI, so we decided it was safe to start trying.  I just delivered a perfectly healthy baby boy and had a very easy, uncomplicated pregnancy.  I found that I could definitely eat a bit more while pregnant (I'm hoping this will change now as everyone says it does) and he was a healthy 6.5 lbs, born on his due date (I gained a total of 18 lbs during the pregnancy).  My daughter, pre WLS was  just a few ounces smaller than him and born a full week later, so my sleeve really didn't seem to impact my ability to nourish a growing baby at all, even being only six months out.  Good luck with your move and with TTC!  Wishing you a happy healthy pregnancy!