Pregnancy 2010 - July

00Angela00

Hello everyone!

For those of you just finding us, this is a group that is trying to be healthier and/or lose weight while:

a) wanting to drop some weight before TTC
b) TTC
c) Pregnant

Wednesdays are our days to weigh in, and we have started having weekly challenges. This moths will be: to meet your highest exercise goal each week AND now that we're in summer to drink all your water everyday!

Welcome all!

00Angela00

Happy Canada Day to the Canadians out there!

Challenge: I want to exercise 30 minutes/5 days this week starting today ending next Wednesday. My water goal is 10 glasses a day.

DeidreJean

What is TTC?

lucifa73

TTC = Trying To Conceive

mwilson1018

I lost 2.6 lbs this week!!! It's been a LONG time since I've seen more than .5 a pound coming off on the scale. I'm so excited!

I was worried because I had to weigh in a day earlier than usual because I'm leaving for the beach this afternoon. So I will catch up with you ladies on Monday! Have a wonderful 4th! :flowerforyou:

shoppingqueen34

I lost 2.6 lbs this week!!! It's been a LONG time since I've seen more than .5 a pound coming off on the scale. I'm so excited!

I was worried because I had to weigh in a day earlier than usual because I'm leaving for the beach this afternoon. So I will catch up with you ladies on Monday! Have a wonderful 4th! :flowerforyou:

YEAH!!!!! That's so awesome!

00Angela00

congrats Mwilson! I can imagine that feels awesome!

Glucose test today and OB appt. Please scale be kind!

shoppingqueen34

congrats Mwilson! I can imagine that feels awesome!

Glucose test today and OB appt. Please scale be kind!

Have fun drinking the nasty sugar drink - ew! Fingers crossed for you!!

pmaria10

Good Morning All,

Challenge: I will walk every morning at 5:30am and get some strength training in at least 3-4 times a week. I need to drop at least 15lbs before TTC in August.

paldal

thanks Angela for setting July up.
I can't believe it's July 2010 already.

We haven't asked any challenge questions the past few weeks...so I figured I'd ask...

How many kids did you want to have? How many kids do you think you'll end up having?

I would love 2, my hubby wanted 3 before we got married, but reading about the expenses by the time they are 18 etc. We may end up with 1 (2 at the most).

yessie75

Angela - did you see my last June post? I was wondering, it's about gestational diabetes.

challenge question - I'm pregnant with our 4th child (my husband had a boy before we got married). We have not discussed closing the factory :blushing: I think I'll like to have 5, if God so chooses to bless us.

00Angela00

thanks Angela for setting July up.
I can't believe it's July 2010 already.

We haven't asked any challenge questions the past few weeks...so I figured I'd ask...

How many kids did you want to have? How many kids do you think you'll end up having?

I would love 2, my hubby wanted 3 before we got married, but reading about the expenses by the time they are 18 etc. We may end up with 1 (2 at the most).

I want at least two, if financially possible up to 4 :-) Living in Seattle (where there are more dogs than children) I want to make up for everyone elses lack of reproduction.

00Angela00

Angela - I had gestational diabetes with my first child 13 years ago. She was born 10. 7 lbs. and my placenta was the size of a newborn. I had two glucose tests done: the first one was high and the 2nd one was normal, but apparentely I still had it. I went up to 176 lbs and a week after I had her I was down to 138 lbs. It was all water and baby stuff gain. My second pregnancy was normal, but I still gained almost 50 pounds. I didn't really exercise with any of those pregnancy, that's why I'm a little bummed out about gaining weigh with this one because I'm actually trying to work out and eat healthy. My mom says I'm just one of those women who gain a lot of weigh during pregnancy, I'm not buying it :sad:
Anyway, I hope just test shows good results. I'm having mine next week, double yuck!

I need to be better at exercising. I was doing really well for awhile, but the last two weeks have not been very good. That's partially why I posted this months challenge. I'm planning on walking 30 minutes at lunch and then maybe swimming tonight for 30 minutes. I don't feel worried at this point about getting gestational diabetes, I'm more worried about being unhealthy and struggling with that after I give birth, and then having a unhealthy baby. :-( I want to do this right for my little man. ;-)

paldal

I need to be better at exercising. I was doing really well for awhile, but the last two weeks have not been very good. That's partially why I posted this months challenge. I'm planning on walking 30 minutes at lunch and then maybe swimming tonight for 30 minutes. I don't feel worried at this point about getting gestational diabetes, I'm more worried about being unhealthy and struggling with that after I give birth, and then having a unhealthy baby. :-( I want to do this right for my little man. ;-)

it's ok to swim when you are pregnant?
I know some people do the zumba...is there anything you can't do pregnant???...I'm worried that I'll be afraid to walk let alone dance in case it effects the baby.

shoppingqueen34

I need to be better at exercising. I was doing really well for awhile, but the last two weeks have not been very good. That's partially why I posted this months challenge. I'm planning on walking 30 minutes at lunch and then maybe swimming tonight for 30 minutes. I don't feel worried at this point about getting gestational diabetes, I'm more worried about being unhealthy and struggling with that after I give birth, and then having a unhealthy baby. :-( I want to do this right for my little man. ;-)

it's ok to swim when you are pregnant?
I know some people do the zumba...is there anything you can't do pregnant???...I'm worried that I'll be afraid to walk let alone dance in case it effects the baby.

You can do pretty much the same stuff you did before you got pregnant and anything low impact if you didn't do anything before hand. I cut out jumping and all that about a month and a half ago. But before then I was doing everything normal. The baby is protected pretty well in there and if you're doing something you shouldn't your body will let you know. My exercise routine keeps me sane.

00Angela00

swimming is one of the most recommended activites. It works all the muscles that support your baby and works your back to help reduce back pain, plus it takes pressure off of everything which helps if your feet, ligaments. back etc hurt. :-) I believe there are some yoga poses they don't recommend you doing, and they usually use caution when someone who is pregnant starts any workout that they didn't do before. Other than that I think most activities are fine. I've heard of women who ran throughout their pregnancy ... which I think is crazy because I have a lot of ligament pain from just walking haha.

pmaria10

Challenge ?: I would like to have three but my husband wants five. We have been married now for six years and we are finally TTC next month. I'm not sure if we will adapt so quickly, I mean our lifestyle is going to be very different so we'll see what he says after one. haha.

yessie75

I practice yoga, walk and do zumba. The yoga poses that are not recommended for pregnancy are twists and inverted poses (like downward dog) for a long time. I did the downward dog until about last month, now I use a chair. For zumba, I don't jump but I dance as comfortably as I can, it's so much fun. Walking, I go at a comfortable pace. Exercising also keeps me sane!

00Angela00

Exercise makes me feel good about myself. :-)

So my OB appt went well, I only gained 5 pounds this month compaired to 12 the last two months. According to my doc's scale I'm 4lbs heavier than my scale. Whatever though I'm mostly going by my scale. :-)

kcurtis05

Happy July everyone!

Question: My hubby and I have agreed that we would like two children. They are expensive.

00Angela00

So I took the nasty "sugar test" yesterday. And one of the symptoms I've been having lately is thirst. I've always been bad about drinking water so early in the pregnancy I just assumed I was dehydrated, but the last week or so I've been really really good about getting 8-10 cupes of water a day, but still feel super thirsty ... lips cracking etc. So I started to wonder if it was from the season change, but when I saw my OB and asked her about it she gave me "the look" and said that we'll just wait on my Glucose test result. :-( Come to find out that's a sign of it. :-( So now I"m extra worried because that's one of the main things I've been worried about this whole time. I don't want an unhealthy pregnancy. I don't want to put my baby at risk. :'-(

paldal

So I took the nasty "sugar test" yesterday. And one of the symptoms I've been having lately is thirst. I've always been bad about drinking water so early in the pregnancy I just assumed I was dehydrated, but the last week or so I've been really really good about getting 8-10 cupes of water a day, but still feel super thirsty ... lips cracking etc. So I started to wonder if it was from the season change, but when I saw my OB and asked her about it she gave me "the look" and said that we'll just wait on my Glucose test result. :-( Come to find out that's a sign of it. :-( So now I"m extra worried because that's one of the main things I've been worried about this whole time. I don't want an unhealthy pregnancy. I don't want to put my baby at risk. :'-(

Don't worry too much! I've seen your food log, you are eating great! If you do end up with diabetes, it'll probably just be a pregnancy side effect, and nothing else. It's unfortune that it happens, but at least you aren't pigging out on chocolate to make it happen.
I'm not a big fan of your OB frankly. She's not supposed to scare people like that. Having a baby is worrying enough.

ron2282

Wow it's July already?

challenge question: hubby and I want 2 kids. Originally I wanted 3 and he wanted 1, we ended up compromising on 2.

ron2282

I lost 2.6 lbs this week!!! It's been a LONG time since I've seen more than .5 a pound coming off on the scale. I'm so excited!

I was worried because I had to weigh in a day earlier than usual because I'm leaving for the beach this afternoon. So I will catch up with you ladies on Monday! Have a wonderful 4th! :flowerforyou:

That's great!!! Have a good time at the beach.

kah78

Challenge ?- I want two....mostly because Bill Cosby says that you aren't really a parent if you only have one kid....if something breaks, you know who did it. Just kidding...I've just always thought 2 would be right. Hubby is lobbying for 3--we'll see--we gotta get a #2 here first. :-) Goal this month: an average of 2.5 miles per day walking, remembering to take my vitamins and 8 glasses of water. Whew!

00Angela00

Foods that Quite Pregnancy Complaints: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/104792-aged-cheddar-cheese-pregnancy-complaints-healthiest-food

keith0373

Trying to concieve? Are you guys crazy? I have 4 teenagers in my house that I can send over to provide you some mental birth control if you guys want.

My wifes favorite quote:
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986

00Angela00

Are people reading these?

2nd trimester food is up: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/104836-chickpeas-2nd-trimester-healthiest-foods-for-pregnancy

ron2282

Are people reading these?

2nd trimester food is up: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/104836-chickpeas-2nd-trimester-healthiest-foods-for-pregnancy

I read every one. Keep them coming!!! :happy:

mwilson1018

I'm back! We had a WONDERFUL, RELAXING time!! I needed to get away! And all I'll say is I'm glad I had a big loss last week because we ate really badly this weekend! Oh well, it was so much fun! We were so blessed because when we checked into our room we found out we had been upgraded to an oceanfront room with a balcony! I was SOO happy! It was so nice to wake up and sit and listen to the ocean :happy: Needless to say I did not want to come home!!

I guess none of us first timers TTC have had good news so far - AF hit yesterday Oh well, we'll just keep trying

Yes, Angela, I read them!

00Angela00

I have a feeling all you gals TTC are going to conceive the same month. haha ;-) Good luck, hope everyone had a good weekend!