Newborn adopted son... & pregnant!
Hi everyone! My husband & I just adopted a baby (he's 9 weeks now) and I discovered i'm 9 weeks PREGNANT!
I had surgery in July last year, so i'm not even a year out. We used protection, but God must've had other plans for us!! We tried 10 years to get pregnant with help from fertility doctors with no luck & waited 3+ years to adopt our son and BOOM we're pregnant!
I had my first prenatal last week and everything looks good. All my labs came back great except I'm low on vit D. I had horrible horrible morning sickness (more like all day long sickness), but the prescribed me Zofran and it works wonders! I was having such a hard time taking care of my son because I was soooo sick. Now I'm just having a hard time because I'm so freaking exhausted and he EATS every hour & a half to 2 hours... It's crazy!
I contacted the Bariatric dept at Kaiser to inform them of my pregnancy & the woman on the phone made me feel like crap & that I was either going to miscarry or i was going to cause serious damage to myself. I mean, we used protection, it happened, let's move forward & tell me how to best proceed. I'm not naive, I know there are risks. But she was so mean & made me feel like crap. I'm so nervous now. I don't want to harm myself or my "blueberry"
My children are going to be 9 months apart!! Oh my how will I manage!? :)
i'm also worried about weight gain, but as long as I don't go crazy, I'll be okay!
First of all, congratulations, what an amazing miracle!! Now, take a deep breath. Everything will be fine! Just because you're not a year out, doesn't mean you're doomed. People have babies before they're 18 months all the time, and they're usually just fine. Eat what you can tolerate, sleep whenever the baby does, and just try to enjoy this crazy ride. Just think how great it will be as they get older and are so close in age. Good luck with everything!
Congrats! And the woman who you spoke with at your dr is just not very educated. Look through this board, and many women have had children earlier than that 18 month rule and have been fine. I have even seen people less than three months out from surgery on here. Vit D is a very common deficiency; I have been on 50,000 mg a week since my first pregnancy 3 years ago. Most OBs consider your gastric when doing test ect, but they don't consider you any higher risk than anyone else that comes in your office. Hope you are feeling better with morning sickness, Zofran can be your best friend, it was mine throughout this pregnancy.
Good luck! Stacey
Stacey
RNY-10/27/04
