Pregnancy 2011- May

I just happened to find this group while being nosy!!! I am a mommy to 2 little boys ages 3 and 1. I would like to lose alot of weight before TTC-ing #3. My husband and I are thinking in about a year and a half. Looking for anyone who can be supportive of my journey!!!

Hi - I'm 33 weeks pregnant with number 2. I'm due June 29th. I just joined to try and keep myself more accountable, as I seem to be gaining more with this one than I did with the first one. I'm curious how did you ladies come up with a target number of calories? I'm familiar with the add 300 calories more, but I'm not sure what I should add that number too...

I am 5'7" and was 163 before getting pregnant and am 190 now and I'm confused. Should I shoot for my target calories plus 300 for the 163 weight, or just look at what it would be to maintain 190. I've counted calories and tracked exercise to lose weight before, but not while I was pregnant. (Not that I'm trying to loose weight now...just rein in the eating a little).

Thank you for any help you can give. I hope you're all having nice pregnancies. I haven't had a chance to read through all of May's posts yet, but I'm going to try to.

Hi everyone! I just joined yesterday and I am in some serious need of support/motivation. I can't help but notice how friendly everyone is and supportive one another. I hope this helps:)

A lil about me. My DH and I are TTC but I would like to lose some weight. I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), have thyroid issues and some other hormone imbalances. Anyone else have similar problems?

I'm off work today, too, hooray! I FINALLY got an almost decent night's sleep last night. I stayed in bed until noon. It was pretty much amazing.

joonz -- that aching could just be ligament pain. My OB told me that's what mine was. It was kind of in the groin area whenever I'd walk. I don't notice it nearly as often anymore, thank goodness. I was afraid it was going to get worse and worse but that hasn't been the case.

Brittony -- I call it a weedeater. I've never heard anyone call it a "weed trimmer" before. THAT'S weird! :laugh:

jenzimmer -- We call it a "water fountain" round these parts. But if you said "drinking fountain" people would know what you were talking about. If you said "bubbler" they'd probably look at you like you're nuts.

Please stop with all of the weeks to months business. I can't understand why you're all having trouble with it but all your illogical rationalizations are killing my brain! :laugh: You are NOT pregnant for 10 months no matter how you look at it unless you go over 3 weeks overdue (or, technically, 5 weeks overdue since you're not even pregnant the first 2 weeks of your "pregnancy"). There are more than 4 weeks in a month otherwise a year would have 13 months since there are 52 weeks in a year. Come on ladies, math *really* isn't that hard! :laugh: If you're really that confused, just count up the months it's been since the date of your LMP. However many months it's been is how many months pregnant you are. You can do this! My LMP started October 9th, 2010 so I'm 7 months pregnant as of yesterday, May 9th, 2011. I'm BEGINNING my 8th month of pregnancy. But, IMO, I'm not 8 months pregnant until I COMPLETE my 8th month.

Hi everyone! I just joined yesterday and I am in some serious need of support/motivation. I can't help but notice how friendly everyone is and supportive one another. I hope this helps:)

A lil about me. My DH and I are TTC but I would like to lose some weight. I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), have thyroid issues and some other hormone imbalances. Anyone else have similar problems?

I don't have PCOS or thyroid issues, but I hope that you find the support and motivation you need!

HOLY CRAP!
I thought I gained 25 pounds over night.... until I realized my husband had his FOOT on the scale!!!!!!

o_O

rofl!

Rachel- Thanks for the advice. I'm not sure if my insurance pays for a chiropractor. I already told my husband that, if I can make it through the rest of this pregnancy without doing anything about it, I'll be hitting the chiropractor afterwards if it persists. It just drives me crazy that I can't do simple things like lift my left leg without an extreme pain shooting through my body. I agree with you Julie, I don't think I should have to experience extreme pain until labor. I've got a pretty good tolerance too (well IMO at least). I may not be good with illness, but I handle injury type pain pretty well. I guess that's why I've made myself deal with this for many months now. It's just gotten way too painful in the last week.

Carina- HAHAHAHA! Mean hubby!

jenzimmer- That wasn't a very nice thing for your husband to say! I bet he thought he was so smart Boys just don't get it sometimes. You are doing really well! You need to gain weight for the baby and I would consider this pregnancy a clean slate from the last. You can't consider pre-pregnancy weight from a previous pregnancy. You are doing exactly what you need to be doing! Get back in that bubble your husband tried to burst

I'm just looking at maternity leave policies / payment etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave and am amazed. The US is the only one on the list that has "0 weeks" paid as national policy.

So interesting! Aftering meeting all you ladies on this board I realized how lucky I am. (though I likely pay for it through higher income taxes or something) Some european countries sure have it good, I bet their taxes are outrageous!

So I'm bummed. My hubby rained on my parade last night big time. So I've been SOOO proud of myself with this pregnancy. I've been walking and really careful with what I eat. So far I've gained 7 pounds which I think is good! I was looking back and at 17 weeks with my ds I was up 15! :noway: So I shared this with DH last night, I was all excited. And he says "wait, how much do you weight right now?" And I said, I'm 143, my pre preg weight was 136. He goes, "well you started out with kayden at 131, so really you are heavier starting this pregnancy and 131+15=146 so really you are only with in 3 pounds of where you were last time." BOOOOOO! Talk about bursting my bubble!!!! :sad:

How rude!! The previous pregnancy should not matter, its about where you were when you started this one.

Rachel- Thanks for the advice. I'm not sure if my insurance pays for a chiropractor. I already told my husband that, if I can make it through the rest of this pregnancy without doing anything about it, I'll be hitting the chiropractor afterwards if it persists. It just drives me crazy that I can't do simple things like lift my left leg without an extreme pain shooting through my body. I agree with you Julie, I don't think I should have to experience extreme pain until labor. I've got a pretty good tolerance too (well IMO at least). I may not be good with illness, but I handle injury type pain pretty well. I guess that's why I've made myself deal with this for many months now. It's just gotten way too painful in the last week.

There are things you can do to try to shift baby off your spine and hopefully off that sciatic nerve. You should google that because I don't know off hand what they are. Sciatic nerve pain will start at the low back and curve out through one of your buttocks (or both depending), down the back of the leg and in extreme cases all the way to your big toe. Sometimes chiropractic manipulation can help, if it's just a tweak of your spine - most likely it is, vs disc injury - sciatica if very common in pregnancy with the strain on your low back and sometimes baby putting direct pressure on a specific vertebra and thus that bone pushing on your nerve bundles - but it's really hit or miss as well on if a chiropractor will work, especially since you 'can't' get an Xray to verify what it is that is pushing on the spine. Some simple things that can help - posture. I know it's hard but try to not swayback as much as possible. Some of those support girdles or underwear etc could help take some of the pressure off the front, which would also help take some of the strain off your back. Stretch your hamstrings often and well. That will often help a lot with sciatica. Work on your back muscles - pregnant the best bet is some light lifting and some swimming. Phys therapy can give you very specific exercises to help if your dr will prescribe it and your ins will cover it, or if it's worth it to you out of pocket. While preg no Dr would recommend doing anything more unless you get incapacitated by it. And I mean, can't walk can't function incapacitated. It SHOULD be something you can manage and recover from quickly after preg, and if it doesn't go away get some Xrays and if they don't show something definitive, get an MRI to rule out disc injury. If it gets really unbearable during preg (and it would have to be pretty bad since sciatica is a common symptom) MRI's are safe during pregnancy. Like I said though, you probably have to ***** quite a bit about it to your Dr before they would put in for an MRI. I can relate to what you are going through. I had that moderate to severe pain for about 6 years with flare ups of SEVERE pain from time to time. I currently have some nerve pain, but hoping it is just typical preg sciatica and not my disc acting up. It makes me wince and grit my teeth from time to time but compared to what it was (in pain 90% of the time to some degree) it is very manageable now!

So the test was not as bad as I expected, the sugar drink did not taste good but I managed to get it down without gagging or feeling nauseous so yay! Should get my results by tomorrow or Thursday.

Also booked my 20 week anatomy scan for June 7th so the countdown is on ! I cannot wait to find out boy or girl.....

Jen - silly hubby, I can't tell if he's being mean or if he's clueless, either way it's time to tell him to zip it :grumble: :bigsmile: 7 lbs is perfect for you I think ??? I'm up 5lbs as of today but also started overweight so trying to stay under 20lbs total gain.

You did the gulcose test already? Hmm, well that should be coming up soon then. I thought I did that like at 25 weeks with DS. Guess not lol. Yea, he's clueless. It's word vomit. He never really thinks about it, it just comes out. :laugh: He then went on to tell me that "you're gonna gain weight. Don't worry about it." Well after a comment like that how can I not! I'm 5'6 and pre preg weight is 136 so 7 pounds is right were I should be. My Dr said between 25-35 gain for me. I would like to keep it under 35, hence me on here! :laugh:

We have our ultrasound booked for June 2nd. Are you finding out? Any "gut feeling"? With my DS I just knew he was a boy, and I was right! So it'll be interesting this time to see if my gut is right again.

Yea, he's clueless. It's word vomit. He never really thinks about it, it just comes out. :laugh: He then went on to tell me that "you're gonna gain weight. Don't worry about it." Well after a comment like that how can I not! I'm 5'6 and pre preg weight is 136 so 7 pounds is right were I should be. My Dr said between 25-35 gain for me. I would like to keep it under 35, hence me on here! :laugh:

Mine keeps saying "honey, you're pregnant. you're gonna get fat." or "you're pregnant, you're supposed to be fat". Men. :grumble: It doesn't bother me coming from him though because he's not mushy so this is typical talk for him not something insulting or insensitive exactly.

So I'm bummed. My hubby rained on my parade last night big time. So I've been SOOO proud of myself with this pregnancy. I've been walking and really careful with what I eat. So far I've gained 7 pounds which I think is good! I was looking back and at 17 weeks with my ds I was up 15! :noway: So I shared this with DH last night, I was all excited. And he says "wait, how much do you weight right now?" And I said, I'm 143, my pre preg weight was 136. He goes, "well you started out with kayden at 131, so really you are heavier starting this pregnancy and 131+15=146 so really you are only with in 3 pounds of where you were last time." BOOOOOO! Talk about bursting my bubble!!!! :sad:

Really, really, oh my gosh. I'd bop your dh for you.