Fit, Fabulous, and Pregnant-September 2011

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Hi everyone!

It looks like everyone has a lot of great goals! Here are mine!
1. Limit my sugar intake on-candy,sweets, chocolate etc. I usually eat fruits, no problem with that it's just the candy.
2. Do the yoga & cardio workout 3 X this week & walk!


I had a busy weekend, did alot of walking around the stores. I bought 2 maternity pants, and need to buy some more blouses.
I am still congested just when i thought i was getting better, and it's really interfering with my sleep.

I haven't gained weight on the scale but my body is thicker, and since I was already a big girl I think it'll be ok,as long as the baby is growing adequately.


Question: Do any ladies feel the baby's if you touch your belly? I think I have, but it's hard to determine if I really felt it.

Rayna: Congrats on winning that mini vacation.

Ashley: Happy Birthday!

AMy: Beautiful picture, congrats on losing the baby weight.

Midnight: Take it easy, and hope your spotting stops.

Ash - I read some Ayn Rand before in high school, but her shorter books. This is about the 4th time I've started Atlas Shrugged. It is hard reading; it's as if no one has a converstaion without it relating to the overall theme of the book. But the theme is interesting and I like the characters so if I put in at least a half hour, I really get into it. I love to read and I have been reading a lot of easy stuff lately so thought I'd challend myself. And I know if I don't finish it before the baby comes, it may have to wait for months.

Lunarokra, on feeling the baby - If I want to feel movement from the outside, I will push in a little in areas I have internally been feeling movement and when I do that with my fingertips, I feel a pulsing, but I think it's actually my heartbeat as it's not as fast as the baby's. I don't know how or why; I figure it is similar to when I get really hot (pre baby too) and I can feel my own heartbeat pulsating in other parts of my body. Speaking of movement, I had my husband put his hand on my belly the other day when she was dancing around in there and he was able to feel her. It was very sweet; his face all lit up. Weird thing was, he felt a movement from the outside I actually didn't feel from the inside and said he could even see his finger bump out. It is so totally weird and also very very cool.

Hi, everyone! I've been more or less MIA for a week or 2, I've been working on my dissertation proposal, which I will be defending this Friday. It's been pretty stressful work-wise but if the defense goes well, life should be a little more relaxed for awhile. The worst part was that between fatigue and work crisis, I haven't been getting to the gym. However, today I went back and met a friend for a treadmill date, and I hope to get in some Zumba tonight, so let's hope I'm back in the saddle!

My next doctor visit is on October 6th, I don't know if I'll get an ultrasound this time but I hope at least the Doppler. I want to hear that little heartbeat again!

My goals are pretty general - get back in the workout habit, at least 3 times this week; start drinking my fruit smoothies again (they've made me want to gag so I've been avoiding them, but I want to try again); get to sleep earlier to rest for the baby.

Glad to see you ladies have still been posting lots while I've been off the grid, keep up the great work and good luck on all your goals!

Hi to all my fit, fabulous and pregnant/mama friends!

I love seeing everyone's great goals for the week. I can only speak from my personal experience, but I think eating healthy and generally clean, as well as working out throughout my pregnancy has made a HUGE impact on my ability to drop the weight. As of this morning (19 days past delivery) I am at my pre-pregnancy weight. I only officially weigh-in on Fridays so we'll see where the weight is at the end of the week. Granted, I am breastfeeding and eating like an NFL player so I think that also plays into it. I've been doing my approved 30 minutes of easy walking everyday, but may have some challenges this week as my husband went back to work today. I'm still not approved to walk the dogs and they would go insane if I went to walk without them. It's raining and nasty here today, but if it clears up this afternoon my sister will come and help me walk the dogs. Goal - at least five walks this week.

Amy, glad to hear you are doing so well! Love your post c-section goals! Your doctor doesn't sound as strict as mine - are you allowed to light exercise already?

Heather, yeah for the great weather, probably a nice change after all the heat you had this year. My advice on the thank yous is to get going. The gifts continue to come even after Charlee arrives so staying on top of it makes a big difference! As usual, inspired by your workouts - keep up the great work!

Ashley, happy early birthday! Great goals once again from you. You are doing amazing with your pregnancy. Glad to hear you are sleeping so well.

Midnight, Oh my, I love Homer. Beautiful place and sounds like you had a nice weekend. Thinking good thoughts for you and the placental bleeding.

Ash, good luck with the doctor tomorrow. It has to be such a relief to have found someone. Good luck with your goals - you can do this!! I looked chunky through the early 20's, it was around week 26 before my bump was really obvious. Remember we all have different body types and carry differently.

Babeed, good roadtrip, sounds like a great time! Neena will probably do better once the baby arrives, you will be surprised and amazed at how well they adapt too. I think you asked a while back about how the dogs reacted to crying. My girls bolted out of the room the first time Ellie let out a loud cry, but that was it. Now they just seem very concerned when she cries. While I was pregnant we pointed out every crying baby to the dogs and I even have a tape (yes, a tape!) that has baby noises and crying on it that we played for them occasionally.

H_82, love your new picture!

Kristin, Ahhh...jealous of your workout goals, they are excellent!

Rayna, congratulations on winning the birth class! As for your goals and outlook, they look great! We all gain so differently, I gained the majority of my weight second trimester and really leveled off once in the third. With you heading back to the clean eating and with your continued workouts, I have a feeling your weight gain will stay in the healthy 25-35 pound range. Many of us here have such a hard time with the numbers and we get kind of stuck on a particular one. Remember you have that wonderful life growing in you and the weight gain is totally worth it!

Brenda, I have a sweet tooth too! No candy corn allowed to enter my house....it will not survive! My cravings for candy is much less and I think it's because I am breastfeeding and only want to be filling my body with the best foods for Ellie. Guess it's a good motivator. As for your congestion, I had lots of it off and on, it is a very normal side effect of pregnancy.

Misti, all your weeks sound so busy to me! Happy to hear your husband will make it for the ultrasound and your son is going to be so amazed! Can't wait to hear the news.

Kim, your in-laws sound amazing! You've had lots on your plate and now it's a new week to start over on your goals. You can do this! Enjoy your doctors appointment, I know getting the confirmation from the doctor helped to make the whole pregnancy more real for me.

Best wishes to everyone for a great week ahead!

Holly

oh, forgot to mention for those of you buying maternity clothes and planning to breastfeed - stock up on the nursing tops as you will need them!

Hello ladies and hello maternity pants! Yup 9 weeks and rocking maternity clothes, ahhh I can breath. Looking around 5lbs aready :noway: I am having a heck of a time trying to eat healthy all the time, I do find myself craving healthy food so thats a good sign right? I managed a 4kms run yesterday with alot of walk breaks, seems like Im huffing alot anfd my heart rate is getting up there way too fast. Start my swim class tomorrow!

Goals get in two more run this week
Swim on tues
Wieghts 2x
walk 30 mins on lunch break

Good morning chicks! I got in a great run/walk last night. The weather was crisp and perfect. I did longer running intervals on flat areas - typically around 10 minutes and found the pressure in my lower belly I had last week was pretty much gone. I also ate some grapes so check on those goals for the day! I am taking today off since its my birthday.

Svgarcia - I opted not to do the testing b/c my dr. explained that it is not a yes or no result rather a range of how likely your baby is to have downs, spina bifita and/or the other one they for I can't remember the name of. So if I got a 6, would I opt for an amnio or just worry for the rest of the pregnancy? Plus if anything was wrong I knew I wouldn't terminate the pregnancy anyways. I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason so just also put my trust in that. Just my opinion.

Better get to work and get the boring part of my birthday out of the way. We'll have dinner out tonight; I need to figure out where I want to go. I'm thinking Cuban maybe. Have a great day ladies!

Happy Birthday Better_Balance!! I hope you have a super day!

Well, I had a nice, long reply written out on the previous forum and hit Reply only to be told it was locked. DAMMIT! lol So, I'll try to recap a little. Here goes:
Eric and I went to the mall and Babies R' Us on Saturday. I got two pair of jeans from Motherhood, one with a small band and one with a full band. I hate how terrible they make your booty look!! lol They have some REALLY cute jeans, but I'm not spending $70 on a pair of maternity jeans. I'll stick to the $30ish pairs. lol They were buy one, get one 1/2 off so that helped too. We bought our car seat/stroller travel system at Babies R' Us. We had a 15% off coupon and a $10 gift card so we couldn't pass it up. Eric put it together on Sunday and put the pups in it and pushed them around the living room. It was adorable. Haha! Yesterday he actually had Pia, our Chihuahua, strapped in the stroller and pushed her around outside. She loved it! haha!!

I completed my goals of working out 4 days and eating healthy last week (yay!!) and I plan on keeping the same goals for this week. Eric and I went to the gym yesterday and I was able to run for longer intervals and that felt great. We had baked tilapia, steamed squash, rice, and a salad for dinner. Today is yoga and I'm excited for it! We'll probably have chicken, rice or quinoa, and steamed veggies for dinner.

OMG, cannot believe we are "overboard" :-D It's awesome to see so many posts, except I'm having hard time to keep it up with you all. So, I'm just checking in for the time being.

We have family visited for more than a week. I haven't seen my sister for 7 years and my parents for 3. It has been very busy and all my regular routines broke loose. I only managed to have a few walks.

Time to get back to healthier eating (ok, my family cook with so many oil and I've been having hard time with it...), and workout. This weeks (raining all week I think) I'm planning to alter 2 of my prenatal DVDs, and try a couple of walks if it stopped raining outside during lunch hour.

I have an ultrasound this Friday to find out the sex of the baby. Keep up with the good work ladies.

I found a place in the DC area that has a $40 special on Monday's for gender determination 2D ultrasounds. They do them as early as 16 weeks. I'll be 16 weeks on October 7th . Eric and I both have Monday the 10th off for Columbus Day and I REALLY want to schedule an appointment! We're going to South Carolina to see family October 14th so it'd be awesome if we knew the gender when we went!

Atomdraco-So exciting, any hopes for boy or girl?

Ha, I do but I'm grateful just to have a healthy happy baby right now (due to a miscarriage and being a bit older age having a baby). We have girl's name picked (from the first pregnancy). So if we are having a girl, we got names, otherwise, we'll have to try to find a boy's name.

Heather good luck and keep us posted on the results, not very long now until D day!

Rayna let us know the result tomorrow,its so exciting - we found out at 18W as well, could have been earlier but both babies were a bit shy

Next week I'm having my 32 weeks appointment, and pregnancy leave officially starts at the end of week 32, so that's exciting.

I have done a few maternity / delivery preparation classes, and will do the one on c section as the doctor says we definetely need one as one of the babies is transverse. I always hoped and trained LOL for natural birth but it is better for the twins health. Not too sure about the recovery though?

I m getting huge but you ladies are an inspiration and I try to stay active every day even if just for 30 mins yoga on bad days. Cardio and abs + butt tightening exercises on good ones :=)

Keep up the good work ladies

Great goals, Ladies! Looking forward to more baby news soon... It's going to start happening in big waves with this growing thread. I love it!

Heather - I can hang on until you're ready for a post-baby thread. I love this board!

Holly - Like you I've been doing some light walking (usually not pushing the double-stroller) daily. Doc said it was good for recovery. Nothing intense...no hills...slow going... But hopefully only for four more weeks! Feels good to just get outside and breathe.

Heading out the door shortly for Annie's two week appointment. Seems our little girl may have blocked tear ducts (something her brother had, too). Hopefully they 'unblock' soon. I remember Colby had goopy eyes for many, many months. Hard for a Mama to see, but it doesn't hurt baby. As I said to my husband, if that's the worst our otherwise healthy kids get, I'm a happy Mom.

Hanging onto the 'last ten pounds' but I'm sure it won't hang on much longer. As Holly said too, my appetite is huge and I'm doing a pretty good job of putting the right foods into my body for baby and I.

Although some weight is still with me my stomach is relatively flat! I'm impressed at the rate in which it has gone down:



Look forward to checking in again soon!

~ Amy