Disheartening and sad /rant

Everyone has pretty much said it all. I just wanted to encourage you to hang in there. You're almost done! This last little bit is hard both emotionally and physically and you've already had such a hard go of it. Your belly gets bigger, the water piles on, and the hormones make for some crazy emotions. You're so close and when you deliver your emotions will change in an instant when you see your baby. I think most women go through this mental struggle with weight towards the end. I don't know how one couldn't. Baby is growing so so much!

If it encourages you at all, I gained 50#'s with my first baby. She was 9#'s 3oz at birth. I walked out of the hospital 24hrs later having lost 40#'s. I only had 10#'s to lose from the entire pregnancy. I hold a TON of water. You really will lose the water pretty fast after the birth. I'll tell you what I did, but I can't necessarily recommend it for you b/c your health is different then mine. The hospital gave me a 32oz. container of concentrated cranberry juice. Immediately following the birth and for the first 24hrs I drank nothing but diluted cranberry juice. I ate very very little. I so wanted to get rid of my elephant ankles! LOL! All I did for that 24hrs was pee. Can't say it's the healthiest but I was so done being water logged! Your body isn't going to hold all that fluid for long.

Maybe spend this next little while watching lots of funny movies and reading funny books? Humor is a good thing when we are discouraged. If you can get your hands on Art Linkletter's book Kids Say the Darndest Things you will laugh until you're wetting your pants (and thus expending water! ). It would be a great pick you up!

Here you go. https://www.amazon.com/Kids-Say-Darndest-Things-Linkletter/dp/1587612496/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484844104&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=art+lnkletter+children+say+the+darndest+things

You're almost there.....hang on!

Hang in there! I remember that my OB told me that most of my weight gain at the end was fluid retention and baby growing (something like .5 lb per week??). I had three babies, the smallest was 9lbs 4oz. Give yourself time, and stay off the scale, something the MDs here rely too much on. Look at the big picture and see where you want to be six months post baby. I'll bet you're there, or super close

Yes - baby and fluid. I gained 50 lbs with each of my four kids. I remember that I lost about 15 lbs with each by the time I left the hospital (babies were 8lb 4 oz, 9lb 2oz, 8lb 5oz, and 7lb 1oz, respectively). Don't remember the time frame so much with the first three, but with my youngest I'd dropped a total of 20 lbs by the time she was two weeks old, and another 10 by my six week check up. Your body can hold craaaaazzzzzy amouts of water when pregnant!

Get off the scale. Don't get back on until at least a month after delivery (better yet, wait till your six week check up!). You're in the home stretch. I know it feels like it takes forever, but it really is almost over! (Hugs)

Edit - just a tip - after the baby is born, sleep with a towel under you (unless you want to do tons of laundry). You will have night sweats like you wouldn't believe! It's all that water leaving.

crzycatlady1 wrote: »

Is this your first pregnancy? You'll be shocked at how much fluid /weight you'll lose at delivery and the few days after

I lost 25 pounds between my last pre-natal checkup, a week before I gave birth, and my post-partum check-up. Eight pounds, eight ounces of that was actual baby.

However, and this is important: I developed pre-eclampsia in my last trimester, which accounted for most of my weight gain and moved my pregnancy to high-risk status immediately. Please discuss weight gain with your obstetrician, not with the internet. It could be serious.

I've seen a few of your recent posts, you know what to do as far as eating. Keeping that under control in these last few weeks is going to be rough. If you feel this is edema, definitely make sure you discuss this with your doctor, sudden edema can be a red flag. Keep taking of yourself and growing your precious baby

elphie754 wrote: »

I think I will be hiding the scale lol.

I think this is the best idea. You are working really hard to grow a healthy baby in there.. and that's an amazing thing that not everyone is able to do. Be kind to yourself and don't waste energy worrying about things that are completely beyond your control at this point.

I will say, as a general lurker but very much a well-wisher in your threads, when I saw this thread title my heart sank through my feet. I'm glad things are going as well as they can be!