Poll: pregnancy weight gain? Curious!

I was 55 pounds heavier at the end of both my pregnancies I started each pregnacy at 120 pounds, however I had big babies (two 10 pounders) big placentas, polyhydromnosis (excessive amounts of amniotic fluid), I was measuring full term at only 30 weeks and it was all in the bump. I also started to develop a lot of swelling throughout the rest of my body, I remeber having pitting edema on my feet and lower legs and my face even swelled. I don't do pregnancy gracefully that's for sure. Once baby was out and swelling down I ended up about 20 pounds heavier than before. It came off within 2 months without any effort with my first. With my second I had to really put the effort in. Largely because I found it harder to be as active as normal with a newborn and a toddler.

37lbs gained with the 1st; lost baby weight at 9 month, plus an additional 7lbs at 12 months (stopped bfing at 12 months, which accounts for the extra 7lbs loss)

35lbs with the 2nd; lost baby weight at 8 months (bfed for 14 months, but 2nd child wasn't a big eater, so I didn't lose extra)

ARGriffy wrote: »

Hi all, I'm feeling down about my post baby body and the prospect of how much I need to do to get my body back (not that I think it will be even close to what you see in my profile pic taken in March) so I'm curious, how much did other mums gain during pregnancy? What did your bmi go up to? Did you manage to lose the excess?

I started at bmi of 20, now at 25 and I have 30lbs to lose and all my lovely muscles to 're grow! Sigh.

I was about 120-125 lbs pre-pregnancy and about 145 lbs after birth. I wasn't very concerned about it for quite awhile and never really lost all of it. I eventually gained more weight but that had nothing to do with pregnancy.

I gain 35 lbs. Seven in the last week due to preeclampsia.

I had lost 25 immediately before I got pregnant. I didn't make a full effort to lose the weight until she was six. At that point I just stopped eating like a numbskull and being a sedentary slug.

I gained 54 lbs but that was within the recommended range for a twin pregnancy since I'd started out normal weight. I'm 5'7" and was 139 lbs when I got pregnant; 193 near the end. I had two healthy full-term babies so it was worth it.

Re losing it, 35 lbs came off within the first 2 weeks. Then I leveled off for a while; I was stress/comfort/convenience eating to a degree with the stress of taking care of two babies and never sleeping. At 4m pp I started Weight Watchers and at 5m pp I started 30 Day Shred. I lost more weight but losing the last 10 lbs took me forever; my twins were 3.5 when I finally got back to 139. (Then a year after that I got down to 128 and ended up deciding to stay in the low 130s; I hadn't been that slim since college!)

With my first I gained 45 lbs and it took 18 months to lose the weight and get my stomach back down. I started lifting weights then found out I was pregnant some months later. When I was pregnant with my girls I gained 50 lbs—I was a couple of lbs shy of 200. So now I’m 19 months postpartum I honestly can’t remember when I hit my pre pregnancy weight...I’d have to check my progress weigh ins but I’m 10 lbs below my pre pregnant weight now and working on my composition using dumbbells lifting.

Beaudom91 wrote: »

I was 55 pounds heavier at the end of both my pregnancies I started each pregnacy at 120 pounds, however I had big babies (two 10 pounders) big placentas, polyhydromnosis (excessive amounts of amniotic fluid), I was measuring full term at only 30 weeks and it was all in the bump. I also started to develop a lot of swelling throughout the rest of my body, I remeber having pitting edema on my feet and lower legs and my face even swelled. I don't do pregnancy gracefully that's for sure. Once baby was out and swelling down I ended up about 20 pounds heavier than before. It came off within 2 months without any effort with my first. With my second I had to really put the effort in. Largely because I found it harder to be as active as normal with a newborn and a toddler.

My pregnancies were similar. Over 10 pound babies, lots of swelling and a huge amount of amniotic fluid. Gains were 70, 60 and 60. I lost all the weight, and now remain around my pre pregnancy weight of 135 pounds with a height of 5'6".

Not everyone has tiny pregnancies, and no I did not eat constantly, but I did have nausea for the whole time I was pregnant, that definitely made me eat a massive amount of crackers.

The bulk of my weight came off after I stopped breast feeding, takes 9 months to grow a baby, allow yourself at least 9 months to lose the weight, if not more.

Each pregnancy/weight can be so different!

My first, I was 23 and gained 55lbs. I originally lost 9 due to hyperemisis so they basically told me to eat whatever would stay down. I had him and they weighed me afterward and I was the same weight!!! I was devastated since he was almost 9lbs plus all the other stuff you lose. Surely I should have lost that much at least haha. It took months to even start losing the weight but I'd say within a year it came off and I was back to my pre-pregnancy but not goal weight.

My second, I was 26 and gained about 40lbs. I lost it all within maybe a month and a half. It was crazy. I think a lot of it was water weight because when I had her the nurse was shocked at all the fluid. Also, every day I was down a couple more pounds. Got back to pre-pregnancy weight pretty fast but still struggling years later to make goal weight.

I did not breastfeed with either.