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26 weeks with no.2 feeling fat and frumpy :-(

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SqueezyB · 26/02/2010 08:46

The title says it all really - I'm 26 weeks with no.2 and feel HUGE! How on earth am I going to last til 40 weeks?

With DD I put on over 3 stone. It took a year to lose all the weight, then when she was 18 months I got pregnant again!

This time round I had such severe morning sickness I lost half a stone by 12 weeks and was secretly quite pleased. I was convinced this time would be different and I would just have a nice little bump. But now it's all starting to come back! I know logically I can't be as big as I was 1st time, so far I've put on 1 stone 6 (including the half stone I lost to begin with) and DH very sweetly keeps telling me that this time I am 'all bump' but I just feel so fat and frumpy and am getting really down remembering how fat I felt after DD was born and how hard it was to lose the weight.

Anyone want to cheer me up with tales of how the baby weight just falls off second time round? Please??

My midwife did tell me 2nd time it tends to 'pop out' sooner...

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fairydusty · 26/02/2010 09:17

I can't really give you any positive stories about weight falling off but i know how your feeling - i'm 27 weeks and feel like a whale. I am bigger this time than i was with my first but i have only put on a stone. I think the problem is you show much quicker with the 2nd and that adds to the feeling that you have been massive for ages. I am watching what i eat from now on cause i really don't want to put on heaps of weight - fingers crossed i manage to breast feed this time as thats meant to help the weight fall off!

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bluemonkey123 · 26/02/2010 12:46

SquezzyB - I am only 20 weeks with no. 2 but have felt fat, frumpy, grumpy and unpopular for Ohhh around 19 weeks!!!:-)
I have also had some mild depression and completely unreasonableness with DH (Is he having an afair? are my all my friends talking about me behind my back? I don't want to go out anywhere, he must be so embarrassed to be seen with me etc etc.) He has been great and then i get all upset that i have been such a cow and so horrible to live with, but again he is still great assuring me that it's just hormones and that it will get better and that even though I don't feel it, I look fab. He forced me to go and get my hair cut, and then suggested that we take the kids (I have a DSS) swimming more often so that we get out of the house. makes me call old friends and meet up with them for coffee etc. It is really helping and I am starting to get some confidence back (and eating less and excersizing more - without even trying!) I am lucky that he is thinking of all these good things without pushing them on me as ways of making me feel better about myself, just ways for us to do stuff (the making myself feel better is just a byproduct) Could you maybe try some of these things??
As for the magic weight loss after giving birth liposuction? :-0

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booboomonster · 26/02/2010 17:53

Hello
I am 27 weeks with number 2 and can relate to this! though I put on 4 stone first time around and am not quite as big as I was then at this stage... I have put on about 1 and a half stone. I am trying to eat healthily and have carried on exercising. I am also hoping that as this is the trimester (2nd) you are supposed to put on the most weight, as long as I don't spend 4 weeks pre birth mat leave sitting with my feet up eating ice lollies (hard to do with a toddler), I might avoid gaining too much later on. Maybe this is totally unrealistic, but it's the only thing keeping me going. And, I've given up chocolate for Lent.
Good luck!