Birth Control Choices, Why Choose One?
After any surgery for weight loss, the first 12 to 18 months is when you will lose the most weight. Your body will be going through hormonal and physical changes. Some bariatric doctors describe the way your body operates during the first year after surgery as “starvation mode”. Your body will be holding on to whatever nutrients it is able to absorb just to maintain yourself. To require your body to support, nourish, and grow another human life during your first year is not wise. Many women have become pregnant during that first year after surgery and they have pregnancy stories that are good and bad. Many were able to carry to full term (40 weeks) and have healthy babies. But for others, the outcome was not as favorable. Some of the potential risks of pregnancy after weight loss surgery, during the first year, are poor fetal growth and low birth weight, severe iron deficiencies in mother and possibly baby (anemia), and possible miscarriage. After you’ve waited the allotted time recomm
