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Congrats!  I hope that after my surgery I am as lucky as what you are!  I go monday to have my final weigh in and I hope that I get approval from the insurance company fast!!!!!!  Good Luck and I hope everything goes well with you and the baby.

Thanks everyone for responding.  I appreciate your honesty and stories.  It is very incouraging.

Thanks again
Kim

 OMG we are so similar I too have just discovered I am 5 weeks pregnant  I am 7 months post op and have lost  131 lbs since surgery. I was diagnosed with PCOS at 29 after years of irregular periods generally masked by the contraceptive pill and being overweight pretty much all my life . Well we weren't planning to ever have children especially as I will be 41 in a few weeks .........so this has been a pleasant surprise but like you I am being cautious as there is a long way to go yet but massive congrats to you too 

Congratulations! I hope you have a happy & healthy 9 months. Have you checked out the post op pregnancy board on here? They have a wealth of information. I also had 2 babies post op, although I had RNY I can try to answer as well...

GL & congrats again!

I will be 6 years post op RNY next month.  For me it has worked well and I'm pleased with my results.  I am still 100lb lost and wearing a size 8-10, down from a size 24-26.  My diabetes, IR, infertility, sleep apnea...all gone.  I still have hypertension (high blood pressure) but my doc thinks it's likely genetic as it's quite prominant in my family.  It's very easily controlled on 1 pill a day now as opposed to 3 pills a day I was taking before and was still mildly hypertensive.

I lost 100lb in 6 months and then lost the remaining 14lb by 1 year post op.  As soon as I hit 199lbs I went on the OrthoEvra patch for birth control so I don't know exactly when 'everything righted itself".  At 1 year post op I stopped using the patch and found that I'd became 'normal'.  Pre op I never had periods...never ovulated...even with medications (oral and shots), and now not only were my periods normal but I was ovulating too!  I tracked my periods for 3 months while I finished a medication that I could not get pregnant on and our 1st month trying to get pregnant...we did!  I got pregnant at 16 months post op.  I had a healthy pregnancy & baby who will be 4 in less than 2 weeks.  After her birth I opted for the Mirena IUD because I just didn't really care for the side effects of the patch.  When my DD was 1.5y I had my IUD pulled and was pregnant the next month.  Again...healthy pregnancy & baby...she's 19 months old.  After her I had another Mirena IUD inserted (looooove it!  No muss...no fuss...good for 5 years).  Because of how the Mirena works I no longer have periods.

My WLS not only changed my life, but it allowed me to be a mom after trying for soooo long.  We went through 8 years of failed fertility treatments, then the 1+ year waiting...I finally got my 1st + pregnancy test 9 years 4 months after we first started trying to have children. 

My pregnancies were unremarkable (aside from some spotting with the 2nd) and I delivered healthy girls at 39w1d & 39w0d weighing 6lb 3oz & 7lb 12oz.  I was also able to breastfeed both.

GL and let me know if you have more questions...

Kristy