I have never eaten so many bananas and apples in my whole entire life! I snack on fruits a lot and given up my crisps addiction since finding out I'm pregnant. But the weight just seem to keep piling on. When I was younger I thought that pregnant women only gained a big solid bump but obviously that is not the case. Everything gets bigger! I have had to buy new bras twice already and now, apparently I should be wearing 36DD!!! That is something considering I only measured a 34B pre-pregnancy. And my arse is the size of Britain now... And I'm not joking!
I had to buy bigger clothes eight weeks into pregnancy because there was no chance my size 4(UK) clothes was going to fit me. I now wear maternity size 6 and normal size 8. I started showing at 10 weeks and i'm afraid there was no hiding it. When I was 10 weeks pregnant, I went to a family get-together and nobody knew the good news yet. Needless to say everybody caught on the minute I entered the restaurant. It was quite funny when James' cousin's wife whispered to mum asking if I'm pregnant. Imagine how awkward it would have been if they congratulated me and found out that I wasn't pregnant. So they played it safe and asked mum and dad first just in case it's just my wobbly bits and not baby bits.
My pre-pregnancy weight was 6 stone and 10lbs. That's about 94lbs/43kg. I'm now on my 22nd week and I weigh 58kg! That is an astonishing weight gain of 15kg over 5 months. But if I just sit here and look at numbers then I would have completely miss the more important health change that has happened over the course of 22 weeks of my pregnancy.
My pre-pregnancy BMI was just a little below 17, that is considered underweight. I was also hypotensive which worried many doctors here before. I remember sometime last year, this doctor wanted to admit me overnight because she was really worried about my blood pressure that would not go up even after being on drip for 2 hours. It stayed stubbornly at 60/55. At my 20-week scan my BP was 90/58. It's still pretty low but better than it was previously. My baby could have saved my life - in many ways. So I have stopped looking at numbers for as long as I'm eating healthily then I should not feel guilty. I can lose the pregnancy weight after I give birth. yes, I plan on getting back in shape as soon as I am able to. And I will stay healthy even after giving birth because my son is going to need a healthy mum, and that is exactly what he is going to get. :)
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