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

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 was overweight pre baby too, prob 18/20. I gained around 17kgs when pg. I struggled to find nice maternity clothes to wear too - I ended up getting stuff from Kmart, Warehouse - just bigger sized stuff mainly. I was worried I wouldnt look pg - but by about 26wks it was obvious!

I didnt have any problems, other than sore hips - which I had osteo for, I had a long labour, but who knows whether that would have been different if I was skinny?!

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.

Hi would just like to say that after a very easy uncomplicated pregnancy and being OW I delivered a very healthy little girl at only 7llb12. She was one week early but I think that was due to my gandmother passing not anything else being quite stressed and emootional and all.

I did have protein in my urine at 37weeks so got a sizing scan done at 38weeks and the GTT as at my second urine there was a high glucose but GT came back low if anything. They did send info of  for induction early incase I went over because they didn't want me to end up with a big baby and the hospital get concerned and ask questions

Four_eyes, bull to the not being able to feel baby. I felt baby at 18 weeks, and while it has taken DH a little longer to feel it, he felt his first kick at 23 weeks.

I'm really overweight as well. I was a size 20/22 pre-pregnancy. I'm really short which doesn't help.

Am writing this at 24 weeks. So far I've had a few issues.

I have what we've now decided is stress-induced high bp, but they just presumed it was pre-existing. The first time I saw the hospital specialist (referred from my MW who was lovely), I cried for most of the appointment. She was extremely derogatory and I am so glad I haven't seen her again. She asked the hospital mw if I needed to be admitted then, she must have thought I was much further on than I actually was. She was the one who also said no weight gain allowed at all. I had daily appointments for a while but then things relaxed. I've been medicated for my bp since that first appointment with the specialist and am under the team at the hospital again, as well as my MW. At the moment they're thinking about a 38 week induction if my bp continues to be unstable, but am also at high risk of PE.

I had my glucose test early as well, but it came back low so no worries there.

My MW hasn't been weighing me, but I've weighed myself just to keep an eye on what's happening. I'm sitting at 1kg below pre-pregnancy weight at the moment.

I *think* I kinda look pregnant, but not enough that it's noticable yet. People are still finding out and would never have guessed. It's a bit strange the way my bellys gone. It's got this kinda flabby bit out the top, then all baby at the belly button, then flabby again at the bottom.

That's bull that you can't hear the hb when your overweight.

I was 103kg at 14weeks first appointment with mw and she was able to hear the hb once DD stopped moving round that is lol. Lil monkey kicked the doppler then ran away. I only gained 16kg all up I think dunno how much I've lost but seriously being pregnant made me eat so much better and less I think because I started drinking more water, and have contined drinking more water now as I am constantly thirsty. Only had softdrinks when I wanted some sugar so meh to not hearing hb

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

At the moment I'm sitting about 1kg below my pre-pregnancy weight. I haven't changed what I've been eating much at all. I wonder what my weight will do once I see the dietician and reduce my sugar intake. I've developed GD and am due to see the dietician soon.

Pinky, my MW has been great about my weight, and it's certainly not a pretty figure.

Lol to the cravings. I craved milk and I was previously intolerant to it. The sweet cravings have been terrible so far, I'm not wanting to know what'll happen there.