Pregnancy 2010 - August

Hi, I am new here. I am 24 weeks pregnant. I joined myfitnesspal to try to make sure I do not gain any more weight because I had already gained 23 pounds and I was overweight to begin with. I weighed myself today and have lost 1 pound already. I really don't want to lose too much, I just want to maintain so I am trying to stay as close to my calorie goal as possible.

I think conception just depends on the person. I've never, ever been on birth control and it still took us a while to get it right. I would think it just depends on your body and hormones.

Congratulations to all of the expecting mamas! This Pregnancy (Motivation and Support) Group seems great to be a part of. I am 13 weeks pregnant with my second child.

Congrats souldancer!!! I'm 7 weeks :happy: Welcome to the group!

That being said, I want to sum up my loss from my start date to my pre-pregnancy weight. I started the last week of February, so I have been going at this for about 5 1/2 months now. In the time before I was pregnant (late Feb.-mid July) I have lost 24 lbs. and about 21 inches all over. I started at 176 and went down to 152.6 and have lost 6 inches in my hips (my HUGE - haha - problem area!) I am so proud of myself, and love eating healthier and exercising. I feel like a more productive person, and someone who cares about my future and health. I hope to continue this trend (losing weight) after the baby comes, to get down to my ultimate goal of 140. Pre-pregnancy I was only 13.4 lbs away from that! Once I reach that I will reevalute. I have worked really hard and don't want to gain excessive amounts during the pregnancy that will make it that much harder to loose again. Thanks to all my MFP support ladies!! :flowerforyou:

I joined MFP about 7 weeks ago, and I'm just over 7 weeks preggo! So, I'm having trouble determining what my "pre-pregnancy" weight really is/was... I started at 156 pounds, but am down to 147 (at last weigh-in). Do I go with 156, since I was this at the beginning of the 7 weeks, or 147, the lightest I've been since my wedding? I think 147, but what do you all think?

I had my ultrasound today and we saw and heard the heart beat....164 BPM, it wsa so tiny.

I need to eat less sodium and high fat foods, I've noticed I am out of breath and after the slightest bit of exercise I am red faced. Not good. That has come out of nowhere.

I hadn't gained any weight but haven't weighed in about a week, I need to recharge the batteries in my scale and see the damage. I have to keep this under control.

Angela, Sorry to hear you're so swollen. I was swollen for one very hot day this summer, but din't feel any pain. Hope you feel better soon

Hello to all of you mamas and congrats! I am expecting my 3rd, due 4/10 and it seems like a few of us are just days apart way cool there is someone to "understand" what you are going through. I started my weight loss journey here on 7/23 at 232.2 lbs and I have since dropped to 218.6 as of today. I want to gain as little weight as possible, I did up my calories to 1700 when I found out I was pregnant but my doctor told me 2000-2500 when I went in yesterday for my ultrasound. My goal is now 2000 I will save the extra cals for later in the pregnancy. I have noticed that my food choices are not always the best now, nothing sounds good and I go with whatever does. The only positive is that salads do no make me feel sick. This is the first pregnancy I've had where I've felt sea sick. I just had a miscarriage in March so this baby is such a blessing. I hope to get to know all of you as we go through this journey together. :flowerforyou:

I finally found something that makes me feel better to eat/drink without making me feel yucky. Plus it has vitamins, which I can't take prenatals or regulars cause they make me puke.

Carnation chocolate instant breakfast with a class of fat free milk. Yum.

Angela, hopefully your swelling will go down on its own, with my first son the swelling got so bad I didn't have ankles and could barely walk. Unfortunately for me the swelling didn't go away until my son was 2 weeks old, I hope your doctors has some advice for you and I know it can be super painful

Congratulation sherijimenez!

Angela- I hope your swelling goes down and you aren't in any pain. Congratulations on passing your certification test, its always nice to accomplish something and then move on.

Sorry I have been MIA lately lots of stuff I had on my to do list kept me away. Today I have a 3D ultrasound and I am hoping to find out what baby is, I already had an anatomy scan and all went well. My logging has been non existent and I need to get back to it, had a lot of eating out dates and I think this little one is interested in packing it in now. Will weigh in on Wednesday and deal with the damage then, Have a great week everyone and I will keep you posted on baby.

Hi Everyone! It's been about 2 weeks since I logged in because as you know - my little bundle of joy came 2.5 weeks early!!

We are doing great! She is as healthy as can be and she likes to sleep! :flowerforyou:

As you all know, I went to the doctor on the 10th and they scheduled me for an ultrasound because my belly was measuring big. So after work I went to get my hair cut and highlighted. I had a standing joke with everyone saying that I needed to get my hair done and then she can come anytime after that. I pulled out of the salon at 6:45 and stopped by our best friend's new house they just closed on that afternoon at around 7:30. (it's 2 blocks from our house). I literally was there for about 5-6 mins, was up stairs in her walk in closet and then it happened.....

A big gush of fluid (not messy and thankfully I was wearing pants). I stopped for a second and thought, well maybe I peed myself. Took 2 more steps and realized it was not stopping. So being funny, I asked my best friend if she had a bathroom upstairs with toilet paper. She asked "Why?"...my answer " I think my water just broke!" So as I'm trying to figure out what was happening, she's screaming through the bathroom door..."does it smell, what color is it, is it stopping"...all I could do was laugh. My best friend has 2 kids of her own, so she came to me with a diaper and said "I know you're going to think I'm crazy, but put this on". she was right....boy did that help!

So I drove home, still laughing at the situation. My hubby was on the phone when I got home and I must have given him a look. I told him he needed to get off the phone. He hung up 2 seconds later and then I told him that my water broke. He thought I was joking....I told him to feel my crotch. LOL. So in like 30 seconds, my bag, robe, pillow and such were at the front door. He was freaking out....I had to reel him back in and calm him down. He was so cute I called to on call doctor and we left for the hospital about an hour later. I was in no pain and really calm.

Got to the hospital, got checked in (about 9pm). I was having contractions, but not feeling them. The doc came in and I was dilated to a 3. My full water was not completely broken, so the doc broke it for me. They moved me to my birthing suite and we met our nurse....she was an angel! My hubby is quite the chit chatter, so she realized that and gave him an entire packet of paper to keep his mind busy. It was cute. She talked with us for about an hour and a half. I got to a 4 without any pain meds. Then I got some type of pain meds through my IV bag (about 1am). That lasted for about an hour and a half and I started to feel the contractions again...and they were pretty intense. So about 3:30 am I got an epidural, I was at a 6 almost 7. Let me tell you I was SO sacred of getting one. But at that point you could have put an epidural in my skull and would not have cared. :laugh: It felt like a bee sting....no joke. It was easy peasy!

So the epidural got me to a 10 in about an hour. I started to feel them pretty strongly again. I thought the epidural was supposed to help with the pushing pain - not in my case. I felt like I felt everything! I started to push at 5 am and I pushed for about an hour and a half. The pain was intense! My hubby was being so supportive, but I was in my own zone. My favorite words were "shhh" and "don't touch me". In order to concentrate and get through the pain I needed quite time. LOL So I must have pushed about 15 times (in sets of 3) and out she came. Towards the end I felt her head and everything...hurt, but it was so cool!

Alexis Marie was born at 6:31 am 6lbs 15 oz 19 3/4 inches long on August 11th.

She came out and they put her on my belly and it was love at first sight. She had my dimples and the sweetest lips ever. I was crying, my nurse crying, my hubby was crying. It was a beautiful moment.

Hubby cut the cord and then she got a bath. I got stitched up. I didn't tear that much and not in your typical place, but I tore more internally. They cleaned me up - what a process! And I was all set.

I was not in any pain afterwards....just the typical bleeding and such. We stayed in the hospital for 2 days, just to get rest and relax.

At home it's fun! She's a solid sleeper and eater. I had one bad day with breast feeding. The day my milk came in was a bad one. My boobs were huge and she wouldn't latch on. I was an wreck. I felt like for a week, if a pen dropped I would cry! :sad:

I'm good now and we are on a pretty good schedule! I'm enjoying my time off and just loving the heck out of her.

I weighed myself the Monday after we got home and lost 16 lbs from just delivering her. I'm down another 2 lbs so I have 8 more to go. YEAH!:happy:

Hope everyone else is doing great!! I haven't had much time to follow since she came!

Here's a link to my facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2073641&id=1443997793&l=9ecfde0fc4

YAY! Congrats ShoppingQueen! The pictures are beautiful and you look great! Thanks for sharing your story, funny that it happened in your friend's new house. Glad to hear you all are doing well. :flowerforyou:

Shoppingqueen she is so beautiful. I know how you feel about being scared of the epidural all you can think about are the scary stories, but when I had my first all I wanted while they were doing it was a cheese burger.

Thanks for sharing your story it has been 7 years since my last birth and I am already having anxiety, you make it sound so great and you look really awesome for just having a baby. Very inspiring.