Overweight and Pregnant

Yea KA I was the same, everyone in the due in thread got to hear it at least 3-4 weeks before me I finally heard it around 19 weeks.

bex oh i thought you said 14 weeks when i read it one other time...man it sucks eh.. like everyone else getting Xmas and you have to wait till feb:) hehe hope your ms has got better?

hi Imogen:)

Lol KA, I just went searching through the Feb thread to check and I did say 14th week! Will have to blame that one on the preggy brain haha!! It was definitely 19 weeks coz it was my 2nd visit and my first was in my 14th week lol.

Hi Imogen *waves*

Too bad you don't live close to me Imogen we coulda gone walking with the babes once they were born coz thats about what I would like to get down to aswell. We will have to encourage each other over the net or something

Ooo I need a walking buddy too.   

I have put on too much weight this time and am slightly heavier than I was with Sam at 28 weeks but I am hoping not too put on too much more before 40 weeks.    Having very little morning sickness contributed to that! All I wanted to do was eat and have steadily put on weight since I became pregnant.   My midwife is pretty good though, I weigh myself while I'm there and she just writes it down and never says anything which is good.

I lost nearly 25KG in the year after I had Sam and have put it all back on.    I am still fitting into a size 16 though so I guess it's not too bad.   I am hoping I will lose it easily afterwards too.   My mum is a sureslim consultant so I will get her to write me up a plan once the baby is born.

Bugger us all being at different places in the country!! Coulda had a good walking group otherwise!!

Sureslim is supposed to be quite good aye, yay for you mum being a consultant, I'd like to go with someone like that but the money puts me off, especially if its not gunna work for me IYKWIM?

Sureslim is really good and so effective. A lot of my mums clients have other health issues and have been referred to them by their doctor so can't do a lot of exercise or need to start exercising slowly, so the food side of things is really really effective without necessarily needing the exercise part to start with.

It's all food, no pills or shakes or meal supplements.

I did it after I had Sam and I lost a lot of weight on it and I didn't feel hungry either.

Their programmes are personalised though based on blood tests, health issues, height and weight which is why it's so expensive..

But.. my mum made me a 'generic' plan that basically follows everything that most people have on their plans.

I don't want to say too much cause I don't want to get my mum into trouble, just incase someone is lurking and sees it.

I'll have a hunt around for the printout she gave me though.

I was overweight when i got pregnant, but i had weird body proportions, i was a size 16 in pants but a size 12-14 in top. My tummy has always been smaller then my legs.

I didnt have any problems while i was pregnant, my MW never even mentioned that i could have any problems. And she never weighed me. She checked for gestational diabetes at the same time as the other ladies on my Due in forum got theirs.

Rory was only 8lb 3oz so pretty average.

I didnt do any excercise during my pregnancy either and after my morning sickness stopped i ate like a pig, only craved sweet stuff. I went up 2 dress sizes during my pregnancy too.

Sorry havent read the other posts, just thought i would add in my experience hehe

Yip I had an anterior placenta and poor DP didn't feel much. Heck I didn't feel much ftill 20+ weeks.

DP had his hand on my stomach one night and thought it was the pulse in his hand it was that small lol Then we didn't feel kicks as such we felt her wriggling around lil monkey

welcome everyone:)

got to hear the heartbeat as i bought a doppler(I swore i never would but i did) :) and then found it easy (well student did) at appt the other day and he/she kicked the doppler....cute:)

I'm feeling way more this time so hoping Dh can feel him earlier..he couldn't care less last time but is really into it this time!:)

I'm not doing Gd earlier either this time last time was just cause of a study and it wasn't overweight people just people with higher sugar..this time normal so waiting till 28 weeks but i do have to go straight to 3 hour one.

bex- omg you are so much further than me:) are you still sick?

Welcome to everyone from me too lol!

Had a midwife appointment yesterday and she is happy with how everything is going, didn't even ask about my weight so yay for that!! She recommended doing a stretch class at the hospital, anyone got any idea what that is?

KA, I am still getting morning sickness there seems to kinda be a pattern to it that I am seedy Mon/Tues/Weds and generally throw up Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun and unfortunately thats a pain coz I work Thurs/Fri/Sat.