Life after surgery - Pregnancy

Women should not get pregnant immediately before surgery or 18 months after surgery. 

During the period of rapid weight loss, certain nutritional deficiencies may occur which would put the developing baby at risk for malnutrition and birth defects. 

Therefore, women of childbearing age undergoing weight loss surgery should use two methods of birth control before surgery and for 18 months following surgery. Female fertility increases as weight is lost. 

After weight loss and nutritional status has stabilized, there is no restriction on pregnancy.