Pregnant and Banded...come join me!

[bandster_1007 1]

hi! i'm new to the forum. just found out i'm pregnant last night!! can't believe it! one month ago doc told me i would need fertility drugs and then i needed a hysterectomy after i had my baby.

i'm 25, just banded in october..i'm really nervous about being pregnant with my diet being what it has been, and i'm nervous that it will mess up my band, or that the band will just have been a waste.

advise from those of you that are experienced would help a lot.

[jillrn 0]

Congrats on your pg Bandser 07! I guess we never really know what will happen with our bands with pregnancy or without pg! Just do your best to take care of it the best you can.

UPDATE!

I had my first OB appt today and all went well. THe HB was 170's He thought I was measuring a month ahead but I sorta doubt I am further along.

[bexleygal 1]

Jodie- Just read your post. I gasped when I read that. You hold your head up high. You are a good person and do not let anyone try to make you feel like you are not. GOd has blessed you with this precious baby for a reason. There are no mistakes in his eyes. You are wonderful!

[j_war06 0]

Jodie- Just read your post. I gasped when I read that. You hold your head up high. You are a good person and do not let anyone try to make you feel like you are not. GOd has blessed you with this precious baby for a reason. There are no mistakes in his eyes. You are wonderful!

I know that this is the greatest blessing God has ever given me (well besides a great family to begin with)...And I really do keep my head up most of the time despite a lot of crap. Its just amazing the looks people give and dont even realize that they are doing it...like, who are they to judge me? Ive got better dirt on them, but I dont look at them like that, or treat them badly....I guess its just hard because people assume that I moved back to my hometown BECAUSE I was pregnant....I moved before I even knew I was pregnant, I came home because I was getting away from the corruption I had gotten into in Corpus....People are so stupid and need to go away lol:) Most days Im a happy happy camper, just sometimes its hard to put up a happy front when you really feel like crap (which most of the time I am actually happy, not just pretending to be). But I know that I am strong enough to make it, but I have SOOOO many hard decisions to make including what to do in the Fall....I just found out I have to travel to my college an hour away (I cant take any more classes online or from my local location) because I will only have two semesters left and I have to do an internship in that city....thats a tank of gas PER day, 5 days a week at 3.10 a gallon (current price, who knows what it will be then)....Mom and dad dont want me to move the baby that far away without anyone that I know and trust well enough to babysit her, so I either have to let mom and dad have her during the week (I REALLY REALLY dont want to do that) or drive every single day and be gone allllllllllllllllllllllllllll day (probably from 7 am - 11pm at the earliest)...I wouldnt even get any time with her if I did continue to stay here.......Its so hard, I hate it, BUT its the only way that I can provide the lifestyle that she and I deserve....Jeez, I guess its Jodie's going to vent week....lol

[j_war06 0]

Oh....what a morning, I woke up to my sister ringing my phone to death...just to ask if I had the addresses for the baby shower...uh huh, knew she had something up her sleeve, and she did...she found a hole somehow and started a whole conversation about everything that I could do to fix my life.....ummm...last time I checked, my life didnt need to be "fixed"...it was a long conversation, but the jest of it was that she knows how I feel (no she doesnt) and she told me what I needed to do, and treated me like an utter and complete idiot........

I so effin SICK AND FREAKIN TIRED of people treating me like an idiot....YES, Im 20, single, and pregnant.....But I also am continuing my education and have a lot more of it than everyone trying to run my life and tell me what to do. And believe it or not I have enough sense and brains to make it in this world, but for some reason I just get looked at like Im the dumbest thing walking on the earth everytime I open my mouth....THEN (oh this is the good part) THEN when Im proven right, they act like the conversation NEVER happened.............UGH!

I know Im young and that I dont know a lot about real life yet (through experience ofcourse), but I havent made it this far without SOME KIND of intelligence. These people that surround me make me feel like a little scared girl instead of a soon to be mommy, an adult...Im having a dramatic week ladies....

[jillrn 0]

Jodie-- (((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

[nikki32 0]

please dont let people get you down honey !!!!!!!!!!!

you will make a wonderful mum and i was 19 when i got married & pregnant and one month before my 20th birthday i had my first son and i was scared but it was wonderful and i have great relationship with him (hes now 14)you are really excited about your new baby and i know you will do great job.

you have all of us here supporting you and your parents you are not alone big hugs being sent to you ((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))

nikki xx

[bandster_1007 1]

i was single and 18 when i had my son. i went to college and later married my son's father.

i was fine. very adamant about my son's intelligence level, read to him, cared for him like any mother should. ...loved being a mom. still wanted to hang out some, but not a lot. i do not think age makes you a good mother, you either have that instinct or you do not. (unless you are 14 or something..but you are by no means too young). geez..our grandparent's had kids when they were 13.

[j_war06 0]

Awwww....thanks ladies for all the hugs and wishes I love this forum because there is so much support, especially in this thread...us pregnant women need people to vent to that know how we feel emotionally and physically :eek: I just wish I could get these stupid girly hormones under control....Ive always been a girly girl physically, but I was a man emotionally lol! Now Im ALLLLL WOMAN! And its pretty bad, funny most of the time though

[jillrn 0]

LOL Jodie- you crack me up with the I am a man emotionally! Well we got ya back girl! Hang in there! Jill

[bandster_1007 1]

i haven't had time to read through this thread, but i need to.

i have a question, my band doctor says no unfill, my baby doctor says that i need a minimum of 1500 calories a day.

what do i do????????????????????

[jillrn 0]

umm OB wins and your surgeon should know that! Track your calories can you get in 1500??

[wey2bz 0]

Hi All!

I was banded 01/15/08 -- first fill set for 03/13/08. Despite a tough first two weeks all has been well since being banded and I have lost 30 lbs.

Last month I found myself reading the pregnancy threads and wishing on all wishes that I could one day add a pregnancy post of my own. Well, I believe my wish has come true!! My period is 5 days late and I had 2 positive pregnancy tests this morning.

I feel soooo blessed right now! Is there such a thing as a false-positive pregnancy test? My husband and I have been trying to conceive for 9 months so we were SHOCKED to see a positive pregnancy test ... it is still hard to believe that this is happening!

I will be calling my OB/GYN first thing in the morning. Since I have not had my first fill yet, do I call my lap band doctor and postpone my first fill until after the baby is born?

[nikki32 0]

wey2bz............congrats honey,no dont think it could be wrong easy to get false negative but a positive result twice is for sure ...you going to be a mom !!

im so pleased for you ,i would not bother with fill now and concentrate on your pregnancy you will find lots of support here and you can resume after baby is born i waited until i was 10 weeks b4 getting unfill but i was too tight and struggling and as pregnancy gone on my restriction has been very tight ,cant wait til junior born so i can get a meal to stay down i have lost weight all way through and it has been a worry but babs seems to be doing fine im very weak though so i would advise all to be honest with yourself if you know you cant eat enough to sustain both you and growing baby get unfill...(weight loss can wait ).

i have 4 more weeks til due date but im predicting early delivery ,ive been nesting like mad woman ,also increase in discharge and every evening my pains are starting up and past weekend and today they coming and going during day too,nothing regular but still coming and going also have lightning pains down legs from babs trying to engage ..i think il be going into labour in next two weeks.

i had test for diabetes done and first one showed i had high result so had to go for fasting one results hopefully tomorrow ,they reckon he is big boy ,he feels big to me too ,so im hoping he not going to wait too long......lol

[j_war06 0]

Oh ladies Im so happy, ITS SPRING BREAK! lol! That means I get to sit, relax and only do what I want to do lol! :drool: Ive just had really bad fatigue lately...like sleeping until almost lunch, taking a nap, and still in bed knocked out before midnight! And its true tiredness....I went grocery shopping yesterday (thank God! Ethiopians would laugh at our fridge ) And I found I was just beat when I got home....So strange....HOWEVER....I am 32 weeks today YAYNESS! But people still cant tell Im pregnant....I can, my BFF can and people close to me that have watched me develop over the past few months....but people I havent seen in a long time just think Ive put my old weight back on...kind of hurts my feelings :sneaky: Then again, Im still not THAT big to be so pregnant...so I keep trying to go the optimistic way......Im starting to get so excited about her being here, but thats when things really start rolling, thats when I have to find time to work, goto school, and do an internship....not to mention I have to drive an hour to do my school and internship...I dont know where Im going to work yet, its REALLY hard to find a job in this area, especially when you will probably only be there a year because I graduate school then. Dunno, lotsa stuff going on in my little world...