A recent research showed that weight-loss surgery not only increases the chances of pregnancy but it also reduces the risk of various complications in babies at the time of birth. Research team led by Dr. Melinda Maggard from Rand Cop in Santa Monica, California found that obese women who receive weight-loss surgery before getting pregnant are far more likely to have a healthy baby with no complications.

Researchers said that the risks of premature delivery, having a low birth weight baby, or delivering an exceedingly large-bodied baby were reduced for women who had bariatric surgery compared to obese women. Researchers believe that bariatric surgery helped the mother due to the fact that the surgery normalized her menstrual cycles. Hence this allows women to get pregnant far more quickly than obese women. They added that fertility should not be the sole criteria for getting this surgery.

Maggard said that ideally, women should wait a year after the surgery to get pregnant to let their bodies adjust, but some got pregnant earlier without problems.