MSE Pregnancy Club 24

Miss_Money

last time they knocked on the door (last week) I thought I'd got rid of them... I told them I was a sinner and the baby was the local priests and we are all going to hell in a handcart and why would i want to give up 10% of my income to them?!. no it didn't work.. back again today. They bloody bus them in you know.

ikkle87

OH's family used to be Jehovah's and so when we lived in Ripon whenever one knocked on the door it would end up in a 'hows your auntie? hows your mum' and so on and so forth and take even longer than normal to get rid. We've not had any Jehovah's since moving to Leeds but I think that's more to do with the fact they are too lazy to climb all the stairs to knock on our door lol.

emsbet

I've just weighed myself and I've put on 11.6lbs in the last 10 weeks :eek: I have no idea what I weighed pre-pregnancy but I think maybe it was about 4/5lbs lighter than at 13 weeks. so that would be a total of about 16lbs, is that a lot at 23 weeks? It sounds a lot! Am I just a greedy whale? I really should eat less but I'm so hungry at the moment and I figure if I'm hungry then I need to eat.

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MrsManda

My OH always despairs when religious groups knock on the door - not because of them as such but because if I'm in the mood I'll start discussing the finer points of religion with them until they go away stunned Don't generally get JWs around here but we have a nunnery at the end of our street so they occasionally come round but they're good at listening when you say you're not interested and don't generally come back.

My best memory of having JWs knock on the door was a few years ago. I was bored so invited them in - they were slightly stunned firstly by being asked to come in and then because they were faced with a non-denominal Christian, a C of E Christian with gothic leanings and a pagan all of whom took delight in reading out loud the rest of the biblical chapter from which the JW had selectively picked one verse to illustrate a point. Fun times

ikkle87

That sound about right to me Emsbet, my consultant said yesterday they would expect me to have gained around 10lb by 20 weeks. I think the average weight gain for pregnancy is about 30lb. This is based on

Baby 7-8 pounds
Placenta 1-2 pounds
Amniotic fluid 2 pounds
Uterus 2 pounds
Maternal breast tissue 2 pounds
Maternal blood 4 pounds
Fluids in maternal tissue 4 pounds
Maternal fat and nutrient stores 7 pounds

which i got off a pregnancy weight calculator thing where you input your start weight your current weight and how far along you are and it tells you how much it thinks you will gain lol x

Miss_Money

ikkle87 wrote: »

That sound about right to me Emsbet, my consultant said yesterday they would expect me to have gained around 10lb by 20 weeks. I think the average weight gain for pregnancy is about 30lb. This is based on

Baby 7-8 pounds
Placenta 1-2 pounds
Amniotic fluid 2 pounds
Uterus 2 pounds
Maternal breast tissue 2 pounds
Maternal blood 4 pounds
Fluids in maternal tissue 4 pounds
Maternal fat and nutrient stores 7 pounds

which i got off a pregnancy weight calculator thing where you input your start weight your current weight and how far along you are and it tells you how much it thinks you will gain lol x

where's the obvious 3 stone in cake stats?! If there isn't a cake stat I'm stuffed :rotfl:

emsbet

Thanks ikkle, I know weight gain is an inevitable part of pregnancy but have no idea what is normal. My sister put on quite a lot with her two as she took the eating for two quite literally and three years after she had her youngest she's still struggling to lose the weight. I know I've been eating a lot of junk lately, I try to make sure I have lots of vegetables with my evening meals and drink fruit juice through the day but I don't have any with my lunch (I plan to change that this week!). It's like all my self control about the amount of chocolate and other crap I eat seems to have gone out of the window! Oh well at least I know I've not gone too OTT with the weight gain so far and so I will try to keep on top of it a bit more.

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ikkle87

I wouldn't fret about it too much hun, as long as you don't go too ott then it shouldn't be too hard to get back off. I'm planning on going back to Slimming World after I've had the baby as it will provide a bit of a social side to my week as well as giving me a chance to get rid of some of my belly. Which isn't bump shaped at all just lumpy at the minute. I've done SW before and know it works and whilst I know I could do SW whilst pregnant but I'm happy with how I'm eating for the time being.

Me and my OH have drunk 2 3litre bottles of cordial in a week lol. Oops.

fluffnutter

mishkanorman wrote: »

I had a few baby books, the main 2 were Gina Ford and Baby whisperer

Its probably down to personal taste, and i dont wish to offend anyone, but i found Gina ford to be militant in her approach to baby care - its a good idea to set routine but her books were YOU MUST ie 6:55 open curtains, 6:57 pick baby out of cot, 7
:25 be washed & fully dressed, 7:35 eat toast etc etc

Baby whisperer was more about focusing on what baby is trying to tell you and catching the tiny little signs that are there to help you respond rather than forcing baby to do what you want and when. I found her TV series to be helpful too, sadly she passed some years ago and it might be hard to get hold of.

After tying myself up in knots for the first few weeks I decided to use bits from both that helped us rather than following a plan religiously.

Gina Ford's not for me either but on the subject of baby books generally I heard a feature on Woman's Hour (I think) that really struck a cord with me...

Each generation typically has its own 'baby guru'. In the 60s it was Benjamin Spock, 70s we had Penelope Leach, the noughties were all about Gina Ford etc. Each parent who followed the baby guru of their own time tends to say *this* (i.e whatever that particular guru advocated) is the right way to bring up a child.

The methods might change but what remains the same is the prescriptive approach that each expert adopts. So you get 'you must do *this*, and you must do *that*, my approach is the only one that works'. Even if the books aren't that explicit in their message, the tone is.

Clearly, then, if each generation has a different approach and a different guru, there's more than one way to bring a baby up successfully! At the end of the day, baby books merely reflect the fashion of the times; take what you find useful from them, but they're not hard and fast manuals by any means. Trust your instincts.

emsbet

I did SW before my wedding, lost about 11lbs in two months. I didn't go to any classes, just did it on my own as there weren't any local classes that I could get to as they were too early in the evening.
You're right, I'm not going to worry, I will just get back on the SW after baby is born. I have two weddings early next year, one of which is my sister's and I'm bridesmaid so that should give me a push. I have another one but that's 6 weeks after my EDD but I have no intention of dieting for that one!

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