Hi everyone! Hope you all are well! Sorry its been forever since I have logged in to update yall! I just currently turned 19 weeks today and we found out a couple of week ago that we are expecting our second little boy :) I have had a very easy pregnancy thus far, unlike my first pregnancy were I was soo ill the first 5 months. I had very slight morning sickness which was easily cured as soon as I ate.....which means I have gained....ALOT ;( The day I found out I was 144lbs but I usually ranged any where on a daily basis from 144-148. At my 8wk apt I was 150lbs and today at 19wks I am 164. My OB is going off my 150lb weigh in, NOT my starting #. He isn't too concerned only in that he is afraid that I will make another big baby (my son was born at 8.2lbs 21 1/4in at 38wks via C-section due to failure to progress) and since I am having another boy its already known boys are just bigger than girls, stature wise....at least in most cases. I am trying to a VBAC (vaginal birth after c section) which are sorta hard to come by where I am located, a lot of OBs just aren't on board. My OB is great at will let me try to VBAC if ALL goes well. BUT that means that baby must NOT be breech, I nor baby can't have any issues ie. preeclampsia AND I must go into labor +AND+ progress ON MY OWN. He will let me go to 41 wks to go into labor on my own. But knowing that I 1. have a history of a large baby 2. failure to progress 3. failure to go into labor on my own (I was INDUCED) He thinks that I probably will go to 40 weeks and thinks I could bake a 9lb baby which apparently doesn't stand a chance of passing vaginally. I have a sonogram on the 16th and they will measure the baby and ck on his growth, I can't wait. My son started measuring ahead at 20wks by 2wks and by the time I was 32 weeks he was measuring 6weeks ahead. Originally he said I should gain 25-35lbs but now says to try to keep it 25 to keep from making a 9-10lb baby.....well, shoot...I am more than half way there and I'm not yet officially 1/2 way there. I am trying to do MY best but its hard. I crave all carbs and salt :-/

Sorry this is soo long!!!!!! Again, hope all you mamas, bumps and babies are doing fantastic! Congrats to all the new babies and BFPs! Oh, just fyi there is a Pregnancy after WLS facebook page. It is closed NOT secret. But you can search for it and request to join. There are soo many women in the group and its super active.

Big hugs to you all!

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I can't get in to see my surgeon as they don't accept my new insurance :-/ 

I'm 3.5 years post op roux en y and almost 2 years post op belt lipectomy and abdominoplasty. We had a miscarriage in August 2014 with no real diagnosis as to why. We are about 5-6 weeks pregnant now and worried. 2 days ago we saw the yolk sac (nutrient sac) and the gestational sac, both IN the uterus (yay!) but no fetal pole or heartbeat yet. We're hoping to see that wiggling baby when we go back in 2 weeks. 

My question is this: I am one of the few that STILL malabsorb! How much folic acid do we need to take? Is it one of the ones that we only absorb a part of what we take? Any other vitamins that we need to "up" as preggo moms?

Had the 2 hr GTT with 75 grams glucose today and it was horrible! The only reason I went for the test is I had gone back and forth with my DR and felt, after my last apt, that he was implying something could go wrong if I didn't have it done. He made me feel like it would be fine because he has treated 6 (oh ya a whole 6) post WLS patients and none of them had any problems with the test. Now I feel like that has got to be wrong because I have never dumped so bad. I threw up after 10 minutes (only a few teaspoons so they said its ok) my heart raced for a hour, I was sweating, had the chills, and was too dizzy to stand. It passed by the time the 2 hr mark hit, but man was it brutal. Especially sitting in a lab full of people when I just wanted to be alone in bed. My advice don't do it find a different solution

Hi everyone! Have a question need some answers. This is my first time being pregnant after having R N Y. Surgery since March 2012. Im totally lost I am two months and considered high risk do to the surgery. Are all pregnancies considered high risk after surgery? What about eating habits? I am craving a lot since I got pregnant I am afraid I'm going to gain the weight back Started off before pregnancy at 145. Now I'm 160 in two months Omg!!!!!!! Which twins and triplets run on his side. Yikes