pregnant before pictures

BenKnowsFitness
BenKnowsFitness Posts: 451 Member
edited October 6 in Chit-Chat
The pump for this post is primed so I am pulling the catalyst. Just in case I want to run for office one day...

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  • CMmrsfloyd
    CMmrsfloyd Posts: 2,380 Member
    Well yeah somewhere around 10-15 lbs of the pregnant picture was baby, placenta, and various fluids, but plenty of preggos gain a fair amount of fat. I gained 37 lb in both of my pregnancies and strangely did not deliver a 30 lb baby....l
  • xtinalovexo
    xtinalovexo Posts: 1,376 Member
    :laugh:
  • Alishia_655
    Alishia_655 Posts: 136
    I gained about 30 pounds during my pregnancy. The baby was only 7 # 2 oz and then the other stuff was there too. But most of my weight gain came from after she was born. (shame on me) :embarassed:
  • BenKnowsFitness
    BenKnowsFitness Posts: 451 Member
    Well yeah somewhere around 10-15 lbs of the pregnant picture was baby, placenta, and various fluids, but plenty of preggos gain a fair amount of fat. I gained 37 lb in both of my pregnancies and strangely did not deliver a 30 lb baby....l

    Indeed, so the post delivery photo would be a good before pic...
  • veni84
    veni84 Posts: 29
    i gained 44lbs with my baby and only 25lbs is weight from the baby the rest is fat and takes a lot of hard work to get off
  • Steph4454
    Steph4454 Posts: 164 Member
    I swear I seen you in a movie....
  • CMmrsfloyd
    CMmrsfloyd Posts: 2,380 Member
    Well yeah somewhere around 10-15 lbs of the pregnant picture was baby, placenta, and various fluids, but plenty of preggos gain a fair amount of fat. I gained 37 lb in both of my pregnancies and strangely did not deliver a 30 lb baby....l

    Indeed, so the post delivery photo would be a good before pic...

    Most new moms are a little too busy with a very high-maintenance addition to the family to worry about taking 'before' pics. ;-). Much easier to use a stock preggo photo as many women take those to document the pregnancy.
  • frugalmomsrock
    frugalmomsrock Posts: 1,123
    Well yeah somewhere around 10-15 lbs of the pregnant picture was baby, placenta, and various fluids, but plenty of preggos gain a fair amount of fat. I gained 37 lb in both of my pregnancies and strangely did not deliver a 30 lb baby....l

    Wanna know how bad I got gypped after my fourth? I had a 7 lb. 10 oz. baby, a some odd (3-ish) pound placenta, yet left the birth center only five pounds lighter than when I arrived!!! So not right... And by the time I would have been able to start dieting safely (I was exclusively breastfeeding), I weighed MORE than when I went to have my baby.... ack.

    Also, there is no way in you know where I'd have posted pictures of my now DROOPING fat belly because said baby had been ejected... no way.
  • slrose
    slrose Posts: 164 Member
    the point of a before pregnancy picture is that is what a woman wants to get back to looking like AFTER she has a baby
  • CMmrsfloyd
    CMmrsfloyd Posts: 2,380 Member
    Well yeah somewhere around 10-15 lbs of the pregnant picture was baby, placenta, and various fluids, but plenty of preggos gain a fair amount of fat. I gained 37 lb in both of my pregnancies and strangely did not deliver a 30 lb baby....l

    Wanna know how bad I got gypped after my fourth? I had a 7 lb. 10 oz. baby, a some odd (3-ish) pound placenta, yet left the birth center only five pounds lighter than when I arrived!!! So not right... And by the time I would have been able to start dieting safely (I was exclusively breastfeeding), I weighed MORE than when I went to have my baby.... ack.

    Also, there is no way in you know where I'd have posted pictures of my now DROOPING fat belly because said baby had been ejected... no way.

    Did you have an IV for the birth? IV fluid bloating is no joke. That'll put some temporary water weight on you. I came home from my first birth (hospital) looking like the Michelin man. Second birth, birth center with no IV, no crazy water retention like the first time since I wasn't pumped full of fluids. Thank goodness b/c those tight calves are miserable! LOL
  • CMmrsfloyd
    CMmrsfloyd Posts: 2,380 Member
    the point of a before pregnancy picture is that is what a woman wants to get back to looking like AFTER she has a baby

    OP is saying he does not want to see a 'before weightloss' picture of a pregnant woman.
  • frugalmomsrock
    frugalmomsrock Posts: 1,123


    Did you have an IV for the birth? IV fluid bloating is no joke. That'll put some temporary water weight on you. I came home from my first birth (hospital) looking like the Michelin man. Second birth, birth center with no IV, no crazy water retention like the first time since I wasn't pumped full of fluids. Thank goodness b/c those tight calves are miserable! LOL

    Nope. It was a birth center birth-no meds or fluids. I showed up at 7, had a baby at 7:43, and went home at around midnight. :) It is a total mystery. lol

    *actually... our cardiologist made me deliver the fifth at a hospital, and we intentionally waited because I didn't want to get an IV and all that stuff... so I showed up with all four kids waiting on my dad, who didn't make it, and my baby was born about 10 minutes after arrival. No IV that time either. :-D A nurse tried, and I said I didn't really want it. The midwife said, "don't worry; this baby is being delivered. No need." I had mad IV fluids with my third-hospital birth, sunny side up and stubborn even in the womb... took 30+ hours. yikes.
  • megz4987
    megz4987 Posts: 1,008 Member
    Well yeah somewhere around 10-15 lbs of the pregnant picture was baby, placenta, and various fluids, but plenty of preggos gain a fair amount of fat. I gained 37 lb in both of my pregnancies and strangely did not deliver a 30 lb baby....l

    Indeed, so the post delivery photo would be a good before pic...

    Who wants a full body photo taken after they've given birth? I sure as hell didn't. I was reluctant a month and a half after.
    I gained 100lb being pregnant so if only 10lb of it was baby and it's homey needs, I'm sure as hell going to use a preggo picture as a before.
  • Apryl546
    Apryl546 Posts: 909 Member
    I personally think its worse when a woman counts her pregnancy weight as the highest weight she's ever been.
    I'm sorry.. But I would not count baby, placenta, and extra fluids in my body as my highest weight ever.
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    haaaaaaaaaaaaaa! LMFAO! OHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh, this was great. You sure the girls are preg and not postpartum? I mean, what if the baby was delivered and they still look preg. That DOES happen sometimes! Oh my GAWD, this was hilarious! :laugh:
  • SabrinaG1986
    SabrinaG1986 Posts: 135 Member
    I agree. I feel like i'm being ripped off.
  • BenKnowsFitness
    BenKnowsFitness Posts: 451 Member
    I personally think its worse when a woman counts her pregnancy weight as the highest weight she's ever been.
    I'm sorry.. But I would not count baby, placenta, and extra fluids in my body as my highest weight ever.

    Thank you ma’am. Your one response that partially agrees with my perspective means that I am correct which is the validation I was looking for.
  • femmerides
    femmerides Posts: 843 Member
    so what about this...i was 252.8lbs BEFORE i got pregnant. lost weight and got to 180lbs. got pregnant and got back up to 250lbs. so that still counts, right?? lol. oh and i think the only preggo before pics that should be posted are when you have multiples. your body gets WAY messed up. so i kinda get it. lol
  • CMmrsfloyd
    CMmrsfloyd Posts: 2,380 Member
    haaaaaaaaaaaaaa! LMFAO! OHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh, this was great. You sure the girls are preg and not postpartum? I mean, what if the baby was delivered and they still look preg. That DOES happen sometimes! Oh my GAWD, this was hilarious! :laugh:

    Actually yeah that does happen a lot. They tell you to bring comfy maternity pants to wear home from the hospital or birth center for a reason. LOL. I still looked like 6-7 months pregnant right after both of my births.
  • supertracylynn
    supertracylynn Posts: 1,338 Member
    Lmao!! My mom has a photo I took of myself directly after I had abdominal laparoscopy in June, so I was all bloated, lol, I looked 5 mo preg!!!
    Wen she was here for Thanksgiving, I flashed her my abs and she actually said there was a little definition around my top 2 abs, lol!
  • frugalmomsrock
    frugalmomsrock Posts: 1,123
    so what about this...i was 252.8lbs BEFORE i got pregnant. lost weight and got to 180lbs. got pregnant and got back up to 250lbs. so that still counts, right?? lol. oh and i think the only preggo before pics that should be posted are when you have multiples. your body gets WAY messed up. so i kinda get it. lol

    Anybody who thinks this singleton didn't mess up my body, is sadly mistaken.... LOL

    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/cbms/May Mayer/39plus34.jpg

    And I had another 8 days of him in there... growing....

    Oh, and FWIW: I don't count my pregnancy weight as my HW. That is even scarier than my non-pregnant weight.
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