Today was an emotional day. For years my husband and I have tried to have kids. Unfortunately we've lost 3 to miscarriage. I know that choosing to have WLS is going to greatly improve my chances later. I will be so much more healthy & fit & able to carry a baby. It has been proven that fertility greatly increases with weight loss. So they have advised me to use 2 forms of birth control. I chose not to take oral contraception but rather an iud & condoms. I feel that the risks will be lower and hopefully it will be quicker and easier to get pregnant more quickly. Still in the back of my mind and heart it seems weird. To be trying so hard to get pregnant and now doing something to prevent it. I know I made the right decision. But it's odd.
As far as the insertion goes. Well it was painful. Not so much the iud but the speculum. I felt cramping for a while. But now (10 hours) later it feels like monthly cramps again. They try and put it in within 7 days after your cycle starts. I have to go back in 4 weeks to check and make sure it hasn't expelled. I'm really hoping they will call me back from the surgeons office tomorrow to schedule my surgery. The hope is when I got back to my obgyn I will be much smaller :).
P.S. The doc did mention I have a pretty uterus. Haha. Hopefully that means its great for having babies. Lets hope so.
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