weight gain

[Karina]

Kristy I put on 5kg during my whole pregnancy. I last weighed myself about 4 days before my daughters birth, and I was 55kg. Before pregnancy I was 50kg. She was 2.9kg at birth and is perfectly fine so far.

[expat]

I started off at 60kgs and am sitting on 78 now with 3½ weeks to go. My midwife and endocrinologist are both happy with my weight gain and even though it's well more than the 12kgs I said I would put on as a maximum, I'm not too upset about it. I've recently started to hold a lot of fluid in my hands but my BP's still around 125/65 so they're not worried. At my last ultrasound (34 weeks) he was 2.945kgs and they guestimated from that weight and the curve that he'll be around 3.5 at 40 weeks which is good.

I had a friend who put on 35kgs due to bed rest and masses of fluid retention and someone I know put on only 2kgs through the entire pregnancy because she was overweight to begin with and pregnancy was about the first time in her life she actually paid attention to what she ate!