I fell off the wagon at the beginning of my pregnancy and gained 20+ pounds. The past month, I have been eating better and being more active. I have my calories set for 2,000 plus I add in the extra 300 for the second trimester calories. That usually does it for me. I've been maintaining my weight since I got back on here with that amount...sometimes I even eat more than that if I'm genuinely hungry. It just helps me listen to my body.

This is also my second pregnancy, and I'll be done as well! I have a girl who will be 2 in February, and this next baby is a boy!

Hi there ladies! I'm due February 11th with a girl. This is my first pregnancy, Thursday is my anatomy scan and I'm so anxious to see her again.

I'm 20 weeks now, my biggest concern has been eating healthy and exercising. I have a family history of preeclampsia so my biggest fear is that I will have trouble at some point. I've tried eating clean and healthy and taking my prenatals but it's been harder on some days with the nausea and heartburn. My OBGYN suggested I only gain 10 or so pounds, and that I get 20 minutes of exercise every day. I found her suggestion insane, when I was my most active I still took rest days so it's been hard. I haven't gained any weight so far, I've been trying to eat back my exercise calories and set my goal to maintenance +300 calories. So far it's been hard to meet or exceed my calories aftering restricting for so long before I was pregnant but I make sure that I eat what I can.

For exercise I swim laps for 20-30 minutes a day 5 times a week, the other two nights I either do 20-30 minutes of elliptical or go for a 20-30 brisk walk in the park. Swimming has been really great, it feels so nice on my sore body to be weightless for a while and it's good to get a nice stretch in the warm pool after a swim. I've felt so much better since I started back swimming (at 13 weeks) than I did during the first trimester. I've found the elliptical to be much more challenging while pregnant, I try to make sure I'm getting in decent cardio but at the same time I don't 'push' myself and start cooling down if I feel too hot or tired.

I'm due February 2nd. I don't know the gender yet. The little one was not cooperative during my last ultrasound. This is my 4th baby I have 1 boy and 2 girls we are hoping for a little boy this time. I live in Upstate NY and I'm hoping the weather won't be too awful when it comes time to have the baby. My other kids were born in August September and November so this will be our first time dealing with trying to get to the hospital during nasty weather.