Overweight and Pregnant

i was probably my most overweight with my first pregnancy ... i didnt have any extra health issues, despite the dr's thinking i should. baby wasnt huge, normal size i thought. its harder to buy maternity clothes, sometimes i despaired i would even look pregnant, and getting up and down on mw's tables was not fun! i never wanted to be big when i gave birth tho...in the end i dont think my size had anything to do with how my labour went, but being fitter is definitely a bonus!

I started out fatter this pg (I was an average size 10-12 with Issy).

And there hasnt been much difference in the pgs so far .. bp is perfect .. although my iron was a tad low this time around.

Obv I havent gone through labour as yet, so I cant comment on that side of things just yet, but I havent noticed any real difference in the lead up to the big event. (apart from the fact that my bump is decidedly bigger this time around!)

Thanks for the replies so far ladies keep them coming.

Emma what is CTG sorry?

I'm overweight now, and was to begin with, quite overweight if you look at the scales, but then if you look at my proportions not bad iykwim. I'm roughly a size 16 somethings were an 18, and since my first mw appointment at 14weeks I have only put on 3kg so quite impressed with that. I found that since being pregnant I have been eating heaps better, quite aware of what I am putting in my body and since your not meant to have deli meats and stuff it was harder to eat lunch but that was ok got that all sorted (have been naughty a little bit with sushi and stuff).

I know exactly what you mean about the sitting down thing, up until a month before I got pregnant I was working on my feet and that was my only form of exercise then weeks before I got pregnant I joined a gym bahaha what a waist of money thats been.

MW asked me to have the GTT at 14 weeks because my bmi was higher then normal but that was perfectly in the middle. I've had no ms or anything else other then headaches and part of that was stress and dehydration. So all in all its been good.

No idea about the birth yet obviously as this is my first, mw thinks its going to be easy. Msg me if you want to talk more as you get further along

Edited to say that when I say overweight I mean I am over 100kg pre preg weight and I know I am as I was that when I first joined the non-existent gym I go to

Edited by oOElleOo

When I fell pregnant I was rougly the same weight as  I am now!...I ate about 50/50 diet of healthy and unhealthy food, mainly because for part of the first half of my pregnancy I was commuting from Hamilton to Auckland at 4:30am, and had constant morning sickness that could only be eased by eating lol. I didn't do any exercise either!. I did start to get a little puku (on top of my already fat stomach lol) from 12 weeks on, so don't worry about not looking pregnant Nearer the end of my pregnancy I developed borderline gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. I was induced but arrived to the hospital already dilated, ended up with an Emergency Csection as I developed a high temp (risk of infection occuring), healed well from that. Bubs was bigish 9lb 8oz, but that was genetics (long bones). I definitely want to get my weight down before I fall pregnant again...which I' gonna have to do fast since DP wants to start now!. I will definitely keep up my exercise and healthy eating as well. Good luck with your pregnancy

I am 10kg heavier this time around than last time and yep, am overweight. I had no problems last time and don't anticipate any this time either. My BP is normal and I know my blood sugars are good too because DH is a Type 1 diabetic and I use his testing gear to check quite regularly.

Now that I am feeling better I am trying to eat more healthy. Luckily I am not craving chocolate, which is such a downfall of mine normally. I am 'almost' dieting because of how careful I am being. My appetite has also totally dropped off also which really helps.   

Also I am reasonably tall so my BMI is actually only 32.

Charlotte was 8lb9oz which to me wasn't that big. My family have babies that are 9lb plus.

Edited by CuriousG

*puts hand up*

Yup, I was o/w with B (was in 3 figures by 34 weeks) and had no probs at all during my pregnancy with him (apart from being SO sick for the first 4 months) I went into labour on my own, but it took 3 days of contractions to get to 10cm, by which time he was in foetal distress, there were no probs getting an epi line in (that was done a few hours before B went into distress thankfully) and while I did have an infection in the c-section wound, that was because of dressing changes not happening when they should have. The rest of my recovery was pretty straightforward.

This time around I started off 10kg heavier than I was pre-preg with B, but have gained less overall than I did with him, and am now sitting app at what I was at the same stage with him. This preg has had a few issues (pelvic probs, extended 'morning' sickness, threatened early labour, and fainting, none of which has anything to do with my weight) I have had no issues with Diabetes, even tho I have a close family history of it, and my blood pressure has been fine, with the exception of my fainting episode where it was a bit low.

Good luck!

I am overweight and have been most of my life :( tried lots to lose weight but nothing worked for me. I am 13 weeks and have not gained any weight yet from my pre preg weight (which unfortunatley is already over 100kg mark).
So far the probs i have had is food always hungry and want sweeties but try to stick with fruit rather than choc. I am having a hard time eating proteins not sure why and my hips are already sore esp my right hip. I hope i can have a natural birth and I have seen there is hardly any maternity clothes for a size 20 0r 22 which will make things hard.

I was overweight with both pg's....got pg straight away with both and other than severe ms had no problems, well until the last 4 weeks with both.

Leah was a month early but that was our only complication, and I put on 4 kgs about my pre birth weight. Weighed 6lb 2 oz born.

Joel was 10 days early and I put on 1 kg. At 36.5 weeks I was admitted to hosp with severe pain along cs scar, then had very high bp (only time in both pg's) and started to have early labour pains, but that all calmed down and we waited another couple of weeks. Joel weighed 7lb 8 oz born and was a forceps del.

Good luck with everything.

lol littlestar, I was worired I wouldnt fit any nice maternity stuff either, and bought a pair of jeans in XL hoping they would fit... I have had to adjust them to smallest possible fit as they kept falling off me bum! prob the first time I have had pants do that to me lol, I usually have no probs keeping them on as I fill them up oh so nicely hehe. I'm normally a 16 top, and 18 pants/skirt (pre-preg), and it appears size L clothing from PP was quite adequate for me