Pregnancy After Bypass: Week 7 Pregnancy Diary
My seventh week of pregnancy started on Mother’s Day! I had been hanging out for Mother’s Day because we were planning on telling our son…
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When your tiny tummy isn’t happy
My tiny tummy is very temperamental at times. Often I go through patches when, for whatever reason, my stomach is just generally quite unhappy and…
Getting Pregnant After Gastric Bypass
It has to be said that this is just my story of conceiving after gastric bypass. I am not a medical professional and am not…
Things I will never take for granted
It’s a well-known saying that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. I think obesity and morbid obesity are things that slowly take…
Pregnancy After Bypass: Week 6 Pregnancy Diary
My sixth week of pregnancy got off to a great start with bloggers brunch club at The Garden Shed in Mt Eden with a whole…
The weight loss work you do before the weight loss surgery
When you decide to have weight loss surgery so much of the focus is around the procedure itself. There is so much work to do…
Pregnancy After Bypass: Week 5 Pregnancy Diary
This week has been quiet on the pregnancy front but hectic everywhere else. The baby started the week around the size of a sesame seed…
Head hunger or physical hunger, how do you tell?
One thing I love most about having had a gastric bypass is that I, for a long time after surgery, did not feel physical hunger…
Pregnancy after bypass: Week 4 pregnancy diary
What an interesting week it’s been. I’m barely pregnant, the baby was the size of a poppy seed at the four week mark but already…
The pre-op, are you sure you can’t do this on your own, suggestion
If there’s one thing I’m sure we all hear just before our surgery it’s the good old, “Are you sure you can’t do this on…