Mother Nurture.

This article looks at the pregnancy of singer Carnie Wilson. Since her 1999 gastric bypass, Wilson once 300 lbs., had lost half her body weight, dropped 20 dress sizes and maintained at around a healthy 160 lbs. So last fall, when she saw the needle climb past 165, then 175 and rise higher still, she says, "I was panicking." Still, her bypass surgery--which reduced her stomach to the size of a golf ball, forcing her to eat only small portions--played an important part in her decision to have a baby. There is less risk of having a baby after gastric bypass than having a baby while you're morbidly obese. In May the couple will welcome a daughter, whom they are planning to call Lola Sofia. Now up 40 lbs., "I'm not freaking out anymore," says Wilson, "I do feel ugly because I'm blown up, but also beautiful because I'm carrying this life inside me. Pregnancy is a whole new experience for me. Now I eat to be healthy--I don't feel like Gastric Bypass Girl." INSET: FAQs: Baby After Bypass.