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Hello everyone. My name is Jeny and I live in the Twin Cities, MN.

I had a BPD/DS with Dr. Elariny in Arlington, VA in July of 2001 and

am currently 30 weeks pregnant with my first child.

My stats... I had a high weight of 412, weight at surgery of about

405, pre pregnancy low weight of about 185 and went between 185 and

195ish pretty consistently. I honestly don't know exactly what my

pre pregnancy weight was. I had two tummy tucks (last one went

around my whole torso), my arms tucked, breasts lifted, and was

scheduled to have my legs done in May when I found out I was

preggers. My doctors say I probably have about 20 lbs of skin on my

body still and that with that weight gone I would have more than

passed my goal weight of 175. I am 5'9 " and have very large bones.

Pregnancy situation: I have been told for 10 years I probably would

have to see a fertility specialist when/if I was ready to have

kids. I have cystic fibroids or something along those lines

(excessive and large, up to tennis ball size) cysts on my ovaries,

the name of that escapes me at this point, darn pregnancy. So it

would be very difficult for me to get pregnant at all, much less

easily. Then two years ago this week I ended up with a terrible

infection in one of my falopian tubes and they had to go in and take

that and my ovary out in an emergency surgery. At that point they

said I had a 70% chance of never having my own kids.

In February a condom broke, and I became a miracle. For the next 6

weeks I continued on my incredibly dangerous lifestyle of rock

climbing, learning how to snow board, going to Mardi Gras, Partying

like nobody's business for about 5 of the 6 weekends, including a

ski trip where I bruised my tail bone so badly my PCP decided it

might be broken. I was scheduling the appointment to go in for the

x ray when the date occured to me and I bought the pregnancy test.

And then bought 5 more just to be sure I wasn't doing something

wrong. I was terrified, thrilled, excited, and devastated all at

the same time.

I hadn't been with the father all that long, but there was no

question on whose it is. He and I didn't exactly see eye to eye on

if I should have the kid or not, so now I am on my own. I left my

great downtown single in the city lifestyle in Chicago's Lincoln

Park and moved back to the place I grew up, Twin Cities, MN where my

family lives. Quit my job, got a new one at 16 weeks pregnant, was

very lucky and have a great boss who is very understanding and

supportive.

My family has been amazing, but sometimes its hard because of the

many challenges that we face as post WLS and pre natal. I battle

with 9 vials of blood drawn every 2 months, and 3 or 4 every month,

struggle with weight gain, worry about fetal weight and yesterday

was put on partial bed rest because at 30 weeks the baby's head is

engaged, and already in position and they are afraid that I will go

into pre term labor. I spent 2 hours on a monitor yesterday to make

sure that I wasn't in labor, and now am having to go to part time at

work. I don't know if this has anything to do with my WLS or not,

but I do know the anemia and probably the adema has quite a bit to

do with it. Are any of you having any problems with either of

those? What about weight gain? Any other DS WLSers that are PG out

there? HELP! I desperately need to connect!

=)

Anyway, now that I have babbled, and carried on, that is me, and my

90 second life story (although it might have been a bit longer than

that, sorry) and I would love to hear about some of yours. Either

email me personally at jenykell@..., or post here. I can't

wait to hear from you.

Jeny