Pregnancy following gastric bypass for the treatment of morbid XXXX .

@entity1 @entity1032 @entity5852 @entity353 @entity28 @entity20208 @entity1866 @entity68 @entity2246
Of the @entity1 undergoing gastric bypass for treatment of morbid @entity28 , 75 per cent are female. A common question both pre-and postoperatively concerns the advisability of a pregnancy following surgically-induced @entity353 . Of all @entity1 , 45 became pregnant on 54 occasions following gastric bypass and 46 @entity1 were delivered. There were two spontaneous @entity5852 (4.0%) and six early terminations of an undesired pregnancy. Seven @entity1 were delivered prematurely. One @entity1 was born @entity20208 and has developed severe @entity1032 in both growth and development. In contrast to reports of @entity1 born to mothers with jejunoileal bypass, 12 of the babies that were born to mothers after gastric bypass were heavier at birth than older siblings. An additional ten @entity1 were the first born to @entity1 who had lost more than 100 pounds following gastric bypass. All but one of the @entity1 became pregnant more than six months following surgery. This corresponds to the period of maximum @entity353 and reversal of @entity1866 associated with massive @entity28 . Pregnancies were well tolerated by the mothers, with no excessive increase in @entity353 or development of @entity2246 . Since the gastric bypass is modeled on the Billroth II gastrectomy, additional @entity68 supplementation was recommended during the pregnancy. While we cannot recommend pregnancy during the period of rapid @entity353 in the initial postoperative period, our data indicate that neither the mother nor the developing fetus is unduly endangered by a pregnancy which develops after the period of rapid postoperative @entity353 .
