@raingirl21 The second trimester, I've read, is where your "fastest" gains will happen since you still have room inside you for food haha. So weight gain can slow down in the third trimester.

Does 1800 calories feel like enough to you and are you still gaining on that amount? You do want to still gain. I wouldn't say you're eating too much. You might be bordering on not enough - depending on your logging habits and activity. Are you tracking carefully or loosely? You can try 1800 and see how it goes though. If in a week or two you've lost weight, then it's not enough.

You were in a normal BMI when you started (160-19=141 lb which means a BMI of 23.5 which IS in the normal range), even if you still gain a pound a week from now on, you're set to gain a total of approx 31 lb which is perfectly within the recommended amount! 25-35 lbs is the range for a woman who begins her pregnancy at a normal BMI. So maybe your doctor isn't well informed if they're making you feel bad for gaining the recommended amount!! Not gaining enough is risky for the baby too!

I'm 5' 6" and eating about 2200 a day @ ~20 weeks, sometimes more sometimes less, but I'm tracking kind of loosely so I doubt my "intake" is exactly that (I suspect I'm eating closer to 2300-2400 a day). Just mostly going by how it feels. Some days I'm really hungry and others I'm not. I also have not made myself exercise any more than once a week for 35 mins and I have a desk job. I'm pretty darn lazy haha. I'm not sure if our ages are similar. I'm 28. I'm also gaining approx 1 lb a week now.

If your doctor brings it up again you can try to put the pressure on them to suggest a calorie amount that you should be eating! Or get a referral to a dietitian maybe? If they're going to bring it up and be negative about it, I really don't think it's much to ask that they actually help you!

For the record, my 5' 0" sister gained 35 lbs with all three pregnancies and all babies were healthy and she remained healthy too. No problems with the weight going back down naturally afterward.

@takingsmallsteps You're so close to the end! Wow. I read in a random book recently that if the extra weight goes to the caboose you're having a girl lol. Not sure I believe any of those wive's tales, but do you know what you're having? We should do a test hehe.

@VeryKatie Thank you so much for the insight! This is my first pregnancy and I don't know what's too much to gain. I was fit before my pregnancy, went to the gym all the time but that disappeared when I got pregnant and got sick and tired. My doc doesn't tell me anything expect that I'm gaining too much, which stresses me out. I am tracking with MFP but I'm not weighing anything so it is a loose measurement. I just feel that this last month I've really popped and I feel big and know I'm just going to keep growing and am afraid I'm going to gain 50 pounds and have a difficult birth. I'm 36 and not a young chicken.

YAY HALF WAY POINT!

Format: (Weight gain this week, cumulative weight gain)
Height: 5' 6"
Age: 28
Goal to Gain: 25-35 lb

Starting weight: 139.6 lb
Week 9: 11/09: 139.2 (-0.2, -0.4)
Week 10: 11/16: 140.2 (+1.0, +0.6)
Week 11: 11/23: 139.0 (-1.2, -0.6)
Week 12: 11/30: 141.2 (+2.2, +1.6)
Week 13: 12/07: 139.8 (-1.4, +0.2)
Week 14: 12/14: 139.2 (-0.6, -0.4)
Week 15: 12/21: 141.0 (+1.8, +1.4)
Week 16: 12/28: ? - On a trip
Week 17: 01/04: ? - On a trip
Week 18: 01/11: 140.8 (-0.2, +1.2)
Week 19: 01/18: 143.2 (+2.4, +3.6)
Week 20: 01/25: 145.2 (+2.0, +5.6) - The weird spreadsheet I keep that tells me how much I should weight right now says I should be at 145.4 so I have caught up to it now!

On another note, it looks like I might be gaining more like 2 lb per week lately hahah. So maybe 2400 cals a day (? maybe it's more... oops... I think I should try to track every second day) is too much for me... We shall see! Though on average over 6 weeks it's 1 lb... but I'm definitely more hungry than I was 5 weeks ago.

@raingirl21 If you'd like, you could bring some resources to you next appointment and ask your doctor point blank if he thinks the typical guidelines are applicable to you, and if not, then why. You could ask him how gaining a total of 31 lbs (what you're on track for) is too much. Stump him/her hahah. It's unfortunate that your doctor isn't being aware of how much it bothers you. And I do really wonder where the "too much" comes from.

Here is a US OB/GYN site that states the recommended gain ranges during pregnancy depending on your starting BMI - just so you know I wasn't pulling it out of the air!

http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Obstetric-Practice/Weight-Gain-During-Pregnancy

@takingsmallsteps Hum! So maybe that wives tale is true. I don't know what I'm having but I'm also not quite sure where I'm gaining yet. A little bit in the legs but a bunch in the belly so far. But it might be too early for me to tell.

I have gained a lot of weight on my previous pregnancies but I am hoping not to do that on this one.
Wt goal: gain 15-25lbs
My pre-conception wt 155
Week 4: 12/10 152
Week 5: 12/17 156.6 new scale
Week 6: 12/26 157.8
Week 7: 12/31 158.8
Week 8: 1/7 160.4
Week 9: 1/14 161
Week 10: 1/21 161.6
Week 11: 161.8
Total gain so far: +6.8 lbs
Finally slowed down on the gain weight....

Starting Weight Jan.2nd - 132.5
Height:5'5

4wks-129.9
5wks-128.5
6wks-128.5
7wks-131.4

Okay soooo I've been eating a butt load of carbs cause I have bad nausea and it's the only thing that makes me feel better. Went shopping last night and bought healthier options so hopefully that number goes down a little bit, 3lbs in 3 days is pretty ridiculous

VeryKatie wrote: »

Format: (Weight gain this week, cumulative weight gain)
Height: 5' 6"
Age: 28
Goal to Gain: 25-35 lb

Starting weight: 139.6 lb
Week 9: 11/09: 139.2 (-0.2, -0.4)
Week 10: 11/16: 140.2 (+1.0, +0.6)
Week 11: 11/23: 139.0 (-1.2, -0.6)
Week 12: 11/30: 141.2 (+2.2, +1.6)
Week 13: 12/07: 139.8 (-1.4, +0.2)
Week 14: 12/14: 139.2 (-0.6, -0.4)
Week 15: 12/21: 141.0 (+1.8, +1.4)
Week 16: 12/28: ? - On a trip
Week 17: 01/04: ? - On a trip
Week 18: 01/11: 140.8 (-0.2, +1.2)
Week 19: 01/18: 143.2 (+2.4, +3.6)
Week 20: 01/25: 145.2 (+2.0, +5.6)
Week 21: 02/01: 145.6 (+0.4, +6.0) - My weight was as high as 146.4 this week so not worried again. Also sounds like my weeks are 2 days off based on my ultrasound so I shouldn't really be "weeking up" until Friday lol. But I like Wednesdays better for weigh ins.

You're doing great. Are you exercising any or logging? My goal is 25lb max but I usually hit 30-40 so we'll see haha. I'm trying to be healthier this time around, started my pregnancy weight higher than my other kiddos so really hoping to keep under 160lbs (started off 132ish)

cocolo89 wrote: »

Starting Weight Jan.2nd - 132.5
Height:5'5

4wks-129.9
5wks-128.5
6wks-128.5
7wks-131.4

Okay soooo I've been eating a butt load of carbs cause I have bad nausea and it's the only thing that makes me feel better. Went shopping last night and bought healthier options so hopefully that number goes down a little bit, 3lbs in 3 days is pretty ridiculous

Keep in mind that you get bloated from hormones and constipation.
I'm also in week 7 and up 4 lbs without eating more than the maintenance calories. I have terrible nausea too. Bananas, toast, chicken with rice are my best friends. All sweets make me really sick (thanks God)!!!! But I have trouble with water. Makes me so sick too. I try today the zero Powerade cause I was getting too thirsty.

I thought this was a pretty cool chart to show how much to expect to gain or watch yourself. Just enter your weight and it does calculations week by week.

http://www.calculator.net/pregnancy-weight-gain-calculator.htm

I am just shy of 18 weeks and I am down 9lbs. I am still eating healthy choices and trying to gain the healthy amount of weight they said i should but between morning sickness that is just ending and feeling like eating enough healthy choises of food to hit enough calories to gain is WAY to much I am losing more at each appointment. Dr hasnt said anything yet but i worry about it being bad for baby. I gained 16 with first 30 with second and 23 with third...never lost during pregbancy before but never really made the effort for healthy choices before. Started trying to eat healthier afyer my 3rd and dont wanna go back but dont want to cause any risk to baby.

I'd like to join the tread too I am about 8 weeks, this is my first so it's a bit overwhelming to me! I started obease, so I would like to stick to around 15lbs gain if I can manage it. OB suggested 11-20.

SW : 210.2
week 8: 210.8

4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »

I'd like to join the tread too I am about 8 weeks, this is my first so it's a bit overwhelming to me! I started obease, so I would like to stick to around 15lbs gain if I can manage it. OB suggested 11-20.

SW : 210.2
week 8: 210.8

We are almost on the same boat hon. I started my first pregnancy being 172 and the day they weighted me for the drugs for the c-section I was 234.
This time I started at 182.5 and now week 8 I'm 185.5. I'm having lot's of nausea and vomiting this time plus extreme migraines. I definitely can't eat as much healthy I want. I can't keep down water or anything else besides toast, pasta, Doritos (LOL) and isotonic flavoured drinks. Maybe a banana every now and then. Since nausea kicked in I've stable weight but I'm not happy with my food choices.
I have to tell you. Just keep a general track of what you're eating and you'll be fine. Don't overreact. Also my friend that is more heavy than I am, had an easy and natural birth without complications. I had an emergency c section on the other hand. Weight is not always an indicator of how your pregnancy will go.
Good luck.

cocolo89 wrote: »

I thought this was a pretty cool chart to show how much to expect to gain or watch yourself. Just enter your weight and it does calculations week by week.

http://www.calculator.net/pregnancy-weight-gain-calculator.htm

This is super helpful - thanks! It's so hard to know if you're on track week by week when the doctor gives you a total weight gain "goal." Looks like I'm right on track for my beginning BMI - yay!

I'm actually quite worried, I am only 6 weeks but I have gained 6 llbs already. Previous to getting pregnant I was on cutting calories and when I found out I was pregnant I immediately went to maintenance. I excerise 5 times a week and its very rare I go over the maintenance calories if at all. I took my measurements this morning and the only increase I could see was that my breasts have grown by one inch, the rest are the same so I am hoping that its just water retention due to the extra calories??

Height: 5'3"
Age: 37
4th pregnancy, hopefully 3rd baby
Goal to Gain: 15-20 lbs.
All weight gain is cumulative.
Really hoping to keep weight in check this time. Gained 42.5 with my last baby, 15 lbs in first trimester alone! (eek!)

Starting Weight: 10/14 (conception): 154

Week 7: 11/23: 151.6 (-2.4)
Week 8: 11/30: 153.2 (-0.8)
Week 9: 12/7: 151.8 (-2.2)
Week 10: 12/15: 153.0 (-1.0)
Week 11: 12/22: 153.4 (-0.6)
Week 12: 12/28: 155 (+1.0)
Week 13: 1/5: 156 (+2.0)
Week 14: 1/12: 158 (+4.0)
Week 15: 1/20: 158 (+4.0)
Week 16: 1/23: 158.8 (+4.8)
Week 17: 1/29: 160.4 (+6.4)
Week 18: 2/5: 161.0 (+7.0)
Week 19: 2/12: 163.8 (+9.8)

Yikes! Really grew this week! Averaged 1700 calories /day though.... Feeling huge!

Format: (Weight gain this week, cumulative weight gain)
Height: 5' 6"
Age: 28
First Pregnancy
Goal to Gain: 25-35 lb

Starting weight: 139.6 lb
Week 9: 11/09: 139.2 (-0.2, -0.4)
Week 10: 11/16: 140.2 (+1.0, +0.6)
Week 11: 11/23: 139.0 (-1.2, -0.6)
Week 12: 11/30: 141.2 (+2.2, +1.6)
Week 13: 12/07: 139.8 (-1.4, +0.2)
Week 14: 12/14: 139.2 (-0.6, -0.4)
Week 15: 12/21: 141.0 (+1.8, +1.4)
Week 16: 12/28: ? - On a trip
Week 17: 01/04: ? - On a trip
Week 18: 01/11: 140.8 (-0.2, +1.2)
Week 19: 01/18: 143.2 (+2.4, +3.6)
Week 20: 01/25: 145.2 (+2.0, +5.6)
Week 21: 02/01: 145.6 (+0.4, +6.0)
Week 22: 02/08: 146.8 (+1.2, +7.2)
Week 23: 02/05: 147.0 (+0.2, +7.4) - Going to talk to my midwife about it today at my appointment to see if I'm gaining too slowly. By my estimate I ate an average of 2700 calories a day I must be off. I stopped using a food scale. So maybe I'm over estimating.