Starting this whole journey

So I'm 6 months post op and hubby and I want a baby. Hubby has arthritis so the medicine he was on was switched last week and will take 4 months to leave his system which will put me at 10 months. Doc says it'll be ok for us to start trying then.at this point I've lost 104 pounds since pre surgery liquid diet and hope to be at goal weight before we actually try.

So any suggestions? Any cautions?  advice? Etc...

my dr told me at least 12 mo. before trying to get pregnant. ive read on forums that once you do get pregnant make you you have a prenatal vit w/ folic acid and make an appt w/ a nutritionist. other than that i dont know what to tell you bc im only 1 mo. out and have no kids yet... hope this helps or hope you can find someone to giv eyou more info

Actually you should start taking the prenatal vitamins with folic acid before you get pregnant. Make sure you are taking all your vitamins in general... an important time :)

Make sure your labs are good before you try and that you take your vitamins everyday! Good luck and have fun trying!

My surgeon also recommended a 12-month weight. I found it nearly impossible to continue my regular post-op eating plan while pregnant, thanks to queasiness and hormones and whatnot, so I'd be concerned about losing your window of opportunity for the most weight loss.

A few suggestions I'll make:

• Start taking prenatals ASAP! Or you can continue to take your bariatric vitamins, but add on a folic acid supplement and maybe DHA (fish oil). You need lots of folic acid stored up in advance.
  
  
• Continue to track your food and check with your OB/surgeon about how many calories you should be eating. Mine told me 1800, when I'd been eating 1200 on maintenance, and it was hard to do at first-- I had to graze.
  
  
• Some folks seem to be even more nauseous than usual after WLS while pregnant. I tried EVERYTHING-- aromatherapy, nausea bands, crackers-- and had very little luck. For a while, I had a couple of small gingersnaps for breakfast every morning because it was the only thing I could keep down, and after a year of no-carbing it was mentally pretty weird.

I've started prenatal vitamins and I recording my food choices. I've also started doing a simple fertility tracker just in case. Following the advice listed we've decided to wait for twelve months out instead of ten. What's two extra months compared to safety right?