Maintaining current weight in pregnancy

afr0ricanpride19

Hey ladies! I am 28 weeks pregnant and Aldo would like to not gain too much weight. I've lost weight so far during the pregnancy and don't want to balloon toward the end. I need help with keeping up with my calories with healthy food. I also have a 2 year old and work 3 12 hr nights a week. Any suggestions and support would be greatly appreciated.

nxd10

You do want to balloon towards the end. The first two semester's weight gain is breasts, bottom, blood, and your lung capacity. It you're already overweight, your body can find materials to build those from metabolizing the fat you've already built up.

The last trimester is when your baby lays down THEIR body fat (which they need) and builds their brain and nervous system. This is when the weight gain of pregnancy is for THEM and not you. You also want great nutrition.

Don't lose weight now. Have your healthy baby. You'll immediately drop 15 pounds - 7 pounds of baby, 5 pounds placenta, and 3 pounds of amniotic fluid. Then you'll start dropping all that water weight. If you breastfeed you'll lose weight really fast. Even if you can't nurse long, it's good for your baby. If you don't carry and push that baby around and gets some good exercise. With those two little ones you're going to be running!

Good luck!

Jennloella

you probably will gain quicker at the end, don't be too concerned. Your baby will grow regardless, they are parasites and baby's size is determined by genetics not by what you eat. Not that this is a good time to diet, bit if you have extra pounds, staying active and watching what you eat can help you maintain. I wouldn't go overboard.

nxd10

Their size is determined partly by what you eat. If you undereat, they will be underweight that was a big strategy in the 1950's - they told moms they should only gain 15 pounds during the whole pregnancy so the babies would be underweight and 'slip out easily'. We know now that this is unhealthy and puts babies at risk. Women who gain too much weight are at risk for gestational diabetes and can have very big babies - my father weighed 12 pounds! - because of that. Neither are healthy.

Eat healthy. Exercise. Don't worry about weight gain at the end. Listen to your doctor.

rach021979

Soooo.. I lost about 5 lbs when I first got pregnant. I attribute this to not drinking wine anymore! I was 176 (a bit overweight) when I got preg. I reallllly did not want to go over 200 pounds BUT I knew as long as I ate healthy foods that were good for my baby and my Dr. felt I was at a healthy weight, then I would not worry about it too much. At about 32 weeks preg I hit the 200 mark! YIKES. The last 2 weeks I gained another 10 pounds! double yikes! My son was a very healthy 9.5 pounds and within about 2 months I was back to my pre pregnancy weight. I did not watch what I ate nor did I exercise. I'm only here to lose weight bc I needed to prior to getting pregnant. So don't worry too much. I gained 35 lbs w/ my pregnancy and my Dr. said I was very healthy and all of my blood work was great. Just listen to your Dr. and eat healthy but don't deprive yourself! Congrats on your new pregnancy!!

wishiwasarunner

Please check with your doctor - how much weight you need to gain in part depends on how overweight (if any) you were to start. But the last trimester you will generally gain close to 1 pound per week regardless. Most of the adjustments are for the earlier trimesters as noted above.

Jennloella

nxd10 wrote: »

Their size is determined partly by what you eat. If you undereat, they will be underweight that was a big strategy in the 1950's - they told moms they should only gain 15 pounds during the whole pregnancy so the babies would be underweight and 'slip out easily'. We know now that this is unhealthy and puts babies at risk. Women who gain too much weight are at risk for gestational diabetes and can have very big babies - my father weighed 12 pounds! - because of that. Neither are healthy.

Eat healthy. Exercise. Don't worry about weight gain at the end. Listen to your doctor.

sorry without an underlying cause your baby will be about as big as mom or dad. I get severely sick when pregnant, beginning at a healthy weight of 150 on my 5'7.5 frame, hubby is 6'1, by end of first tri I'm around 120 and leave hospital around 125 to 130. I have four kids. I get 1200 cals a day through a feeding tube. All my babies were between 8.5 and ten pounds. I spend the entire pregnancy being monitored by specialists who encourage me and console me because I"m starving, how can my baby not be? I have spent many days getting growth scans and ultrasounds and have listened to OB after OB explain how it works and that I was never in danger of "starving" my baby or making my baby small. After four babies I get it. most healthy women have sufficient stores of nutrients and fats, everything goes to baby first. We are not small people so our babies aren't small, even though I waste away. gestational diabetes and eating too much are a different story, however overweight women in general have "normal" sized babies.

nxd10

Okay, there is a genetic component. But I teach prenatal development at the university level and nutrition makes a difference. And it is a myth that it goes to the baby first. Calcium goes to the baby first. Other things don't. They are effective parasites, but not that good.

It's not that overweight women can't have normal size babies. They often do. It's that your current nutrition, your blood sugar level, and your current calorie consumption influence your baby's weight. They don't hand you all that nutrition information at the ob's office for no reason!

I am sorry you had such difficult pregnancies. It sounds awful.