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Hi everyone, I just found the list today and joined immediately. Let

me introduce myself.

My name is Kim and I live in North Texas (about 60 miles north of

Dallas). I am 33 years old, married to Glenn (for 12 years) and we

have a 9 year old daughter, Katelyn. I had open RNY on September 8,

2003, so I'm 10 months post-op. I have lost 155lbs to date, and still

losing. I was 400lbs the day of my surgery, today I am 245lbs. My

goal is 170 (I'm 5'7.5 tall).

When I got pregnant with Katelyn I weighed 330lbs and was told that

she was a miracle baby, that I shouldn't have been able to get

pregnant without the aid of fertility treatments. When she turned 6

months old, we started trying to conceive our 2nd. It never happened.

Now she's nine, and I'm not super morbidly obese, and we're ready to

start trying for another one. I have one more week of this month's

BCP, then I'm getting off and we're going to officially start trying

to conceive.

I'm so excited, mainly because it will be so nice to be pregnant and

NOT be 330lbs at the same time. We are so ready for another child,

each of us craves for this baby.

My DR told me he wanted to see me wait a year before getting pregnant.

Well, that year is 2 months away, I figure it will take my 2 cycles,

if not more to get pregnant, so I'm getting off the pill now. How

quickly have some of y'all conceived after getting off the BCP?

My first pregnancy was text-book. I gained only 13 pounds, no

high-blood pressure, no gestational diabetes, I delivered a healthy

8lb baby girl via c-section nine days late 9 years ago. I'm certain

that I will have to have another c-section, which is FINE by me, and

while they have me open, I'll have them tie my tubes. We can't afford

more than 2 kiddos.

I'm eager to learn lots from everyone here, and so glad that I found

this list.

Kim in North Texas

400/245/170

not pregnant YET!!!