CK Too

I think we´re all in the same boat really. Pre pregnancy, yeah I could have done with losing a couple of kilos, but nothing major and I was a lot more active than I am now. Because of the pregnancy I´ve been grounded and have been given an office job, so now I basically sit around on my backside all day - whereas before I was on my feet running up and down airplane aisles all day. By the time I get home from work - its a good 30-40min drive, and I´m so knackered, I can´t be bothered to go swimming or go for a walk - besides which its dark when I get home at the moment, so walking is out. I´ve started to get a little bump now and noticed myself sitting differently at work today, not trying to hide it as such, but I suddenly realised there was more there than there ever has been before!!! Gulp!

Luckily my DH is a bum and boobs man and can´t keep his hands off them! He thinks pregnant women are very sexy - pity I don´t feel the same!!!! I think we´ve all just got to think, well its not forever and something fantastic comes out at the end of it all, and if that means having a flabby arms and a big bum for a couple of months, then so be it.

Jazzy

I had issues for a while, I spent 2 years with bulimia and only stopped when I discovered I was pregnant, it was hard but even though I hate the fact that I'm changing, I know that its the baby not what I eat, I tend to ask people if I look fat though as its a fear I will always suffer with

nikkybaby

I have always had problems with being insecure with my body. When I got pregnant, my automatic fear was putting on a ton of weight, and not being able to get it off after. OH is always good about telling me I still look good, but despite the fact that he says that, and that I am growing a wonderful human being, I still get very insecure about the way I look. I even cried one morning trying to put on the only pair of jeans that still fit me.
It kills me to look in my closet everyday, and know that 99% of the clothes in there don't fit me.
I'm trying to keep my head up about it, but it's hard not to get upset. My big worry is that I won't have the energy to even try to get all the weight off after I have the baby. I say I'm determined now...but who knows what the future holds.
Okay...I could keep whining on forever about this...but I will cut it short.
At least we are all in the same boat, and I don't feel so alone about this!

leeanne

Gosh, I am so glad that I am not alone. I've worried about my weight all my life, and quite truthfully, I am still the same size and weight as I was at 14 - 95 lbs. and 5' tall. However, I am on my third pregnancy and what comes to mind again is the weight gain, not fitting into my clothes anymore etc.

I had a very hard time with it through my first two pregnancies. I gained 60 lbs. with my first (a LOT of water retention) and lost it in about a month or so, thank goodness. With my second, not quite sure how much weight I gained but it did take 2-3 months to get back to normal.

I've had a nice 5 year period of being normal weight again.

This pregnancy was not planned but I am excited. Except for dreading the weight gain. I always felt so frumpy!

And at 38 (almost 39) I don't think my skin is as elastic anymore. After my first, you couldn't tell I'd had a child. My second did stretch out my stomach a bit. Now makes me wonder what will happen during and after this pregnancy.

How sad, isn't it?

leeanne

Bless your husband!

captain-ally

I've always been a little overweight. Just before I got pregnant, I went tree planting and lost 40lbs. Felt/looked great for a whole summer then WHAM - doctor says I have to gain back 25. I was really upset about it, because I know it's going to take forever for me to drop it off.

Then my husband said, "Well, you know baby - they have treeplant every year." He's right. I can just go back and lose it like I did last time. In a healthy and fun way. Just remember that you'll have lost of time to lose it and that babies are so portable. A long walk with the baby in a sling is just like carrying weights

babyblessed

My biggest issue is with my chest, usually small I get to have a big chest for while but then after I stopped feeding my first I went back to even smaller and empyt looking with extra skin. Really may consider surgery this time...though my husband says he never wants me tto do that.

WE are definately our own worst critics hey...should probably listen to those closst to us!