Weight gain - I'm not having any...

[sasha]

I'm using the Wii to track my weight this time round, and I'm not gaining any. I was about 67 when I first got pregnant, and I've gone up and down a kg or two, but I weighed this morning and I was 67.8. My tummy's getting bigger, and I seem to be getting my trademark pregnant bum but I wonder about just not gaining weight. Don't get me wrong, I'm quite happy not to! But is it 'normal'? With both others I was lighter when I got pregnant and so I expected not to gain as much given my heavier starting weight, but I'm just quite surprised that I'm pretty much the same.

[Sterla]

With my first pregnancy I actually lost 6kg in the first trimester! By the end of the pregnancy I had gained maybe 10kg all up, but lost it quite quickly after birth. This time around I have lost 2-3kg so far.

[LimeSlice]

Didn't put on weight with any prengnancy...so far with this one I have lost a kg.
So think that means I actually lose weight while pregnant, since I am obviously putting on the weight of he baby fluid etc...

And I never got ms either. So I think there are some friends of mine that want to shoot me.

I made up for it last time though by putting on 25kgs in the first year while BF Going to be careful of that this time around!

[Maggot]

Wow! Losing weight while pg! Morning sickness I guess. I HAD to EAT with morning sickness, so I've already put on a stack of weight

I'm sure it's normal to be all over the place, as they say, every pg is different. Wish I was only .8kg more than my pre pg weight!

Interesting thinking. I just assumed that if you're heavier to start with, you'd just get heaps bigger. I'm a bit heavier than I was with my last two as well, and have this feeling I'm going to be MASSAVE!!

[CrazyLady]

I only gained 8kgs during my whole pregnancy with DD but I was really underweight prior so I just got to a healthy weight. i was 54kg when i fell pregnant and maxed at 62

[Lily Dust]

I was only talking about weight gain/loss in pregnancy with DH last night! I was 10kgs lighter at about 25 weeks then what I was when I got my BFP, was back to my starting weight the day I delivered, Im normal a size 12, was buying a 10 while pregnant (had a bit of trouble in the belly department though). Admitedly I suffered debilitating m/s until 37 weeks

[Maggot]

Lily Dust: OMG! ms till 37 weeks!! How did you cope? I had it till 13 weeks and thought I was going to die!! Actually, I got soo bored of eating, I just didn't feel like eating any more, but HAD to!

It's so interesting to see how differently people put on/lose weight in pg! So far in my two pgs I've been pretty lucky, being able to pretty much wear just a size bigger clothes, bought a couple of maternity clothes towards the end. Think this time I'll have to start them a little earlier...

[sasha]

Good to hear others' experiences - see, with my other two, I gained 25-28 kg by the end My m/s wasn't too awful; I was thinking about it after I posted and I'm probably just eating and exercising better this time round. M is trying to lose weight so we're not eating as much junky food, and it's probably doing me some good.

[sconeonamission]

I got about half way through my pregnancy before I gained anything! Then I gained about 15kg.

This time round, I've gained 4kg so far.

[Arimeh]

I gained 22 kgs each time with DS and DD1. With DD2 I was heavier than I was with the others, so I think I gained about 15kg. Now I'm nearly 18 weeks and I've lost 3 kgs from what I was before I fell pregnant. I don't get morning sickness either so I'm not sure why I'm losing it! lol

[Trillian]

With my last pg, I didn't start gaining any weight really till nearly 20wks. I only put on 15-17kg for the entire pg, which isn't a lot at all for me - the other three were all 20kg plus. Up till the 20wks mark I'd have been lucky to have gained 2kg. Not that I minded at all LOL. But I did have worse morning sickness than I did for the other three and wasn't eating much even though I did have a big bump by then.

[Bun]

I actually lost 4kg in the first 12 weeks of my last pregnancy because my ms was so bad, then I took ages to gain any weight but still managed to gain 11kg by the end of the pregnancy, which is the same total weight gain with my first pregnancy. I seemed to put weight on really quickly from about half way. Funny how it's different every time. Hopefully the healthier diet is working and you will end up not gaining much this time, so not so much to lose after you have bubs!

[Lily Dust]

Lily Dust: OMG! ms till 37 weeks!! How did you cope? I had it till 13 weeks and thought I was going to die!!

Not sure I did cope hun, spent the first 18 weeks bedridden and in and out of hospital on a drip and medicated with a drug used with cancer patients to assist with their nausea. I was pretty much non responsive all that time except to throw up, spent my days lying in a dark room, light made me sick as did the sound of the tv or radio. Got jupped outta pregnancy really

[JennaJayen]

I lost 6kg in the first 16wks with DS, and then put back on 14kg, but lost it all after he was born before putting on a whole heap more weight from the stress of TTC... I had bad all day sickness with DS, not enough to put me in hospy other than a few trips to emergency for dehydration, but enough that I could hardly eat anything for the first 16wks.

This pregnancy I've lost 12kg in the past 10 wks, and the MS hasn't been quite as bad as it was with DS, but bad enough to make me choose when I eat a lot better lol
Helps that I crave a lot of healthy stuff (fruit & veg) but I also make sure i get to ease my cravings for sugary things and chocolate once a week or I'd go nuts.

I'm half hoping I'll loose another 10kg before bub is born, as when bub was conceived I weighed 110kg... so not very healthy at all!

[Maggot]

Wow! I've NEVER heard of ms that bad! I guess the rest of us should consider ourselves lucky. Actually, it sounds to me like a migraine that lasted 18 weeks, then maybe recovering from it until 37.

My Mum always tells us that with my brother she had ms for the first five months... and then the last four. Guess I'm lucky that I didn't get the same.

*sigh* I hate gaining weight. Ha! It'll be good, once I actually LOOK pg, I guess...

[Taurean]

Yup, very normal. I didn't gain anything until my 25th week and it was only 1kg! I gained 10kg all up then lost it all by the time DD was 6 weeks. You might just be lucky and not gain much

[CrazyLady]

Wow! I've NEVER heard of ms that bad!

One of the ladies I was in hossy with was so sick her entire pregnancy that she had a 2kg baby at full term and was demanding to get her tubes tied! She didn't even look like she'd had a baby when her son was 12 hours old.

[Kazbah]

I am 800g over my pre-preg weight with this one - dropped down 4kg and haven't put on any weight since around 25weeks