Pregnancy Weight Gain (or lack of)!

This is a guest post from milftobe's blog: Baby Dickey. She rants and raves about her first pregnancy as she's making her way through it with her husband of 1 year. They're expecting their first baby December 18th!! This specific post is about her issues with gaining weight during pregnancy and all the worries it brings to a new mom. You can also find her on Twitter at @babydickey. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated!

Pregnancy Weight Gain (or lack of)!

I had a terrible day yesterday.. I kept making food to eat and then once it was sitting in front of me, I couldn’t eat it at all. I thought these days of being nauseous were behind me!!! It is quite frustrating to feel hungry AND nauseous at the SAME TIME. Steve was begging me to finally make something I could actually eat because all the food got sent over to him for him to eat when I couldn’t. He was stuffed–haha! I was finally able to eat Ramen noodles, imagine that. OH, and bacon and snickers ice cream bars were ok too.

As you know, I have lost weight so far in this pregnancy… so many people say to me, “oh I wish I had that problem! haha!” No, you don’t. 1) don’t forget you’d have to be pregnant to have this “problem.” 2) it comes with terrible nausea 3) it’s extremely frustrating and 4) i just feel guilty all the time, thinking my baby is starving. The only 2 things that are constantly on my mind: i’m pregnant.. and.. what can i eat now?

And comments that I look tiny and not pregnant at all only make me worry more. I know you’re all trying to be nice (thank you), but I’d rather hear that I look pregnant, healthy, etc.

ANYWAY, rant over. The reason for this post was that I just googled some info about weight gain. I SHOULD be gaining a pound a week, says everything. So far, I’ve lost about 5 pounds total, but have gained belly, baby and boobs.

I read about women who gained ONLY 3-10 pounds during their entire pregnancy. And gave birth to very healthy babies.

The baby is going to take what it needs from me, so as long as the baby is growing at a normal rate (and my doctor said I am measuring the perfect size for how far along I am), then everything is ok. Every woman is different, some gain 10 lb, some gain 40. Right?

BUT.. then I read things like this: “Inadequate weight gain has been associated with an increased risk for intrauterine growth retardation, low birthweight, and perinatal mortality.” Inadequate weight gain was defined as less than 15 pounds.

I still have 22 weeks to go though… weigh gain can come later.

 

chart from www.healthybump.com

My point (I think): I need to stop worrying. I AM eating and I’m eating well. Although, I could/should trade in my grapes and crackers for milkshakes.

 

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