Expecting After Surgery: Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe pregnancy after weight-loss surgery. Writers had a gastric sleeve, a bypass, a mini bypass, a duodenal switch, an adjustable band, or a band later converted to a bypass. Some planned for two years, some were surprised seven months after surgery or when the pill failed, and some had been told for a decade that PCOS meant no children. They include a school bus driver in Mobile, a pharmacy technician chasing her own blood results, a nurse on a post-surgical floor, a student whose partner worked on an oil rig, older mothers at forty-one and forty-three, and a husband watching from the other chair. They write from Leeds to Abuja, Cairo, Bogota, Singapore and Nairobi. They describe iron and B12, a sugary glucose drink that flattened one writer, months of vomiting, protein without meat, Ramadan, mothers-in-law with giant bowls, breastfeeding, twins, hair loss and the cost of doing it properly. Harder outcomes are here too: an internal hernia, preeclampsia, a baby born at thirty-two weeks, a pregnancy lost at nine weeks, an eating disorder returning, blood sugar crashes after lunch, and low mood after the birth. Others describe calm, well-organised pregnancies and a birth centre that said maybe.

Who it's for

For anyone who has had weight-loss surgery and is thinking about a baby, trying, or already pregnant, and for the partners and families who want to help.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 260 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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