Pregnancy
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sorry to hear that Katie! How is the rest of your pregnancy going? Getting close!
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@Kirstie yeah I'm about 35 weeks along now, I can't believe it...
Pregnancy is going ok. Bending over is hard now lol. But I had a bit of a scare on Monday. From 7:00 - 9:30 the baby only moved 3 times, and very gently. So I was so scared something was wrong. I had juice and an apple and then the baby started moving more. Plus had my GP check the heartbeat (I was going there for a toe problem I've been having) and things were okay. But this little baby did make me worry.0 -
Wow Katie, that is scary! Glad you and baby are doing well and at 35 weeks, wow! Time for another bump pic
Hoping this will be my first and last month sitting out ttc..trying again at the end of this month!
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It's always scary when they move less, I think it happens more frequently from memory as they run out of room. So good to get checked though, hope you can relax a bit now
I'm 4.5/5 weeks so would love to join this lovely thread officially! Still doesn't feel real...3 -
@1fit_mamma Congratulations! Fantastic news!0
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1fit_mamma wrote: »I'm 4.5/5 weeks so would love to join this lovely thread officially! Still doesn't feel real...
!!!!! Congrats @1fit_mamma
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@1fit_mamma yay congrats on your pregnancy!!! It still doesn't feel real for me either hahahah. I'm convinced I'm just going to be pregnant forever. Because... well I've never had a baby so it's probably not changing lol (that's how my brain is thinking, it's just like - "yup, gettin' chubbeh... but life won't change")0
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@1fit_mamma Congratulations how exciting!!!
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Thanks lovely ladies! Haha @VeryKatie totally get that!!
One question I have (again my memory is shocking from first time around)...despite eating every 3-4 hours until I'm full, I feel like my metabolism has ramped up because I've lost another 1-2lb this week and haven't really been calorie counting. I'm eating way more than I usually would too. I guess I should track again and focus on achieving maintenance plus a bit more, but I'm still 20ish pounds overweight so don't really feel like I need to be overeating? Definitely don't want to lose weight at the moment though, any tips would be appreciated!0 -
It's really hard to switch from weight loss to maintenance/gain in the space of 1-2 weeks, my body just isn't used to it!0
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@1fit_mamma Congratulations!0
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@1fit_mamma chances are your TDEE is simply higher than you thought, especially if you've never tracked during maintenance. MPF give notoriously low TDEEs. So I wouldn't say that your metabolism has ramped up. Usually you burn about 4-5% extra calories in the first trimester but due to fatigue your activity decreases your calories by 4-5% meaning it all balances out. Now, if you're not tired, you might need more calories.
I suggest adding more to your daily intake until you get to the point where you are maintaining.
In other words, MFP is having a calculation error, but your body will know what to do with the right number of calories!0 -
Thanks @VeryKatie, I totally agree with the TDEE- the only reason I blamed my metabolism was because in the past if I had a week eating like I did I definitely wouldn't have lost weight, but I'm sure there are other ways ways to explain that.
Prior to pregnant I was using the MFP sedentary setting for weight loss, and it synced to my Fitbit so would eat back most of my calories as I new MFP underestimated calories needed.
Now I have it set to sedentary but maintenance, and will try and eat back all of my Fitbit calories. Obviously if still losing weight I'll eat a few more calories. It's still really hard to eat almost double to what I was previously when losing weight (not psychologically, literally hard to fit that much food in), but I'll do my best lol. Trying not to stress about it too much, so strategy is to see the net calories on the sheet continue to go upwards.
Thanks for the advice Katie, and yes the fatigue hit me like a bulldozer yesterday...can't wait for second trimester! How are you going? Sooooo close now!0 -
@1fit_mamma Congrats!! I'm at 12 weeks this week, so you aren't too far behind me! I felt the same way that you did after I first found out (how can I eat this much food every day?!) but then the nausea and food aversions hit and I was basically living on simple carbs for a few weeks. I'm feeling much better now and I actually want vegetables again, not just pizza all the time
I've now had 3 ultrasounds, the 3rd being at the hospital with better quality equipment so that a radiologist can review my scans to check out the ovarian cyst that was found during my first scan. Fortunately it is staying the same size and not growing, but I need to check back with my doctor on the "official" results. The good part is that we've been able to see our little nugget 3 times and its just so overwhelming to see a little human moving around in there!
We announced to our families this past weekend so it feels nice to finally have it out in the world. My husband's family is already overwhelming me, which I knew that they would, so I'm trying to relax and not think too much about it.
@VeryKatie I hope you are doing well in the home stretch!0 -
@jennamae102 Yay for the cyst staying the same, hopefully the official news from your doctor is good! Keep us updated! How is your husband's family overwhelming you? Tell them to knock it off! haha0
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@WifiresGettingFit haha well within 5 minutes of them finding out we're expecting, my MIL tells me that she just knew something was up because of how crappy I had been looking lately. Those weren't her exact words, she had to pause multiple times and never found the right thing to say, but that is exactly what she meant. Then she proceeds to tell me about a co-worker of hers who's son was born premature and (for some reason....) she and my SIL were the first people at the hospital and held the baby before the mother did! So she was like "just imagine how we'll be with your baby hahaha!" I told my husband later in the day that they are in for a rude awakening when they find out I don't want anyone at the hospital!0
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@jennamae102 Wow...social grace isn't her thing huh? ha! I so want to see the look on her face when she finds out you don't want anyone at the hospital! Take a picture! hahahah =P0
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@jennamae102 She sounds about like how my mother-in-law was, she didn't quite have a good enough filter on her thoughts. We cringed in public quite often as she had a voice that seemed to cut through even the noisiest environments. "So and so doesn't look good" or "So and so got fat" *cringe* I didn't know her before she was late 70's, but my understanding is that it wasn't just her age, she'd always been that way.
Good luck with it going forward, I hope you can find space to not let her stress you out!0 -
Just a quick update and then I will be back to comment on people's stuff (I hate typing stuff out on my phone but I'm too lazy to walk over to the computer lol)
Set up our room for the baby! Feeling MUCH more prepared now. I'm almost done packing the hospital bag too.
Umm can't get my phone to post a picture. Sheesh. Am I 50 years old?
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@jennamae102 I'm so sorry for your MIL stress! I have a similar MIL and had a talk with my husband before delivery to agree that we would not call her when we went to the hospital. No grandparents got a phone call until after baby arrived and we were in recovery. My logic for DH (in case he wasn't receptive to "because your mom is crazy and has no boundaries") was that I needed his full attention and support in the room with me, not running out to talk to people waiting or even texting people updates. It worked. But I still just woke up from nightmares about MIL being inappropriate at the hospital and I'm not even pregnant! Good luck!0
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Overall I like my MIL, she can just be very dramatic and has a way of making everything about her. We live close but she doesn't bother us or invite herself over or interfere in our relationship, so I don't have much to complain about. I will be very interested to see how things progress during pregnancy and with the baby though!
Our big issue with not telling anyone we are at the hospital to deliver will probably be our dog. We would need to drop her off at my SIL's unless I go into labor during the day and we can get her boarded at daycare quickly enough. So, it will probably be impossible to not know we're at the hospital, so keeping people away will be tougher. We'll have to be absolute in our wishes and boundaries.0 -
So tricky with the dog @jennamae102, you never know you might get enough warning and have time to drop her at doggy day care, otherwise you could always say you're not sure if you are in labour but might have to stay overnight for observation? Might buy you some time?
Well 1st trimester is kicking my *kitten*, I don't remember feeling this rubbish first time around? Maybe it's the toddler effect? Not severely unwell but pretty nauseous most hours of the day, and the fatigue seems to be peaking. When did you all start to feel better? I'm only 7ish weeks (no dating scan yet so not 100% sure). Majorly hanging out for that 2nd trimester energy surge!!0 -
@1fit_mamma We'll figure something out, I'm trying not to stress about something that is so many months away!
I think my worst weeks were 6-9 and I started feeling much better around week 10, and now in week 13 I'm mostly back to normal. I found that eating smaller snacks/meals every 1.5-2 hours helped me...even if it wasn't the healthiest stuff it helped me feel less nauseous. I would have a greek yogurt for breakfast, a small bag of cheerios a little later, and some fruit or a granola bar before lunch. Lots of small stuff throughout the day helped me. I hope you start feeling better soon!0 -
I'm pregnant! It's still sinking in. It happened the first month we tried, which has never happened for us before. It took over a year with our first.
So, I want to keep logging my food to keep my weight gain in check and keep me healthy. How do you guys set up your MFP account and your calorie goal? My diary is open if anyone wants to take a peak. Thank you ladies!2 -
@marianlyn congratulations! That is is exciting
So how far along would that make you approximately?
I set my goal for the first trimester to maintenance (it took me a bit of trial and error to find what that was).
My plan for the second was maintenance +300
My plan for the third was maintenance +500
However, I more shot to achieve a 0.75-1 lb average gain per week starting in the second trimester.
So it ended up being more like
1: Maintenance
2: Maintenance + 500
3: Maintenance + 600
My body didn't exactly follow the typical recommendations so there was a little wiggle room in there and I went mostly by results.
Check out this link for some info:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10176233/gaining-weight-during-pregnancy-and-losing-it-post-partum
There is a link to it on the main group page as well.
For setting up MFP I just typed in a custom goal. I used the Scooby calculator to estimate it since I find it gets me closer to reality than MFP's calculator does. I always choose lightly active since sedentary has always been too low of assumption for me, even though I don't exercise basically at all. And when I do, I eat back 50% of those calories (though I only eat back gym and class calories, never walking, housework or weights).0 -
@marianlyn Congratulations!!!0
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@marianlyn Fantastic news! Congratulations!0
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@VeryKatie Thank you for this awesome information! As I'm sure many can relate, going from losing weight to maintaining/gaining is weird. In past pregnancies I just let myself eat whatever and however much I wanted, which resulted in 30 and 40 pound gains. I'd like to do better this time!
@WifiresGettingFit and @samlovesthesnow Thank you! It's still sinking in.
I'm confident that focusing on tracking food and gaining healthy weight is going to keep me from going crazy with anxiety. And I'll be coming here for experienced advice!0 -
Marianlyn, congratulations!!! I am so excited for you !!! What is your estimated due date? How far along are you??0
