Summary Of Great Expectations: Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery
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I choose the article “Great Expectations: Pregnancy after Bariatric Surgery.” A Caucasian woman comes to the clinic, but she denies having health problems. The only thing she has done to her body was the laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery. Before doing the surgery, she was overweight. Her concern was that being overweight she wouldn’t conceive. However, now she wants to know if she can have a positive pregnancy after the bariatric surgery. According to the article, 35% of woman aged 20-39 are obese and 60% are overweight (p.250). The obesity has many effects in the pregnancy. Many women had gone through the Bariatric surgery to lose weight. In this article, said that the surgery helped to lose weight which then increase fertility. Also,