Hi everyone.
So I am pg with my 2nd child. With my first I was overweight with a BMI of 37 but had a textbook perfect pregnancy with low blood pressure, blood sugar etc and a small baby, natural birth no issues etc and everything was hunky dory.
Fast forward 2 years and I have since suffered anxiety and depression, mostly directed towards my health. I have become a hypochondriac which is mental torture some days. I have gained a weight since I had my dd, but I didn't think it was that much, and have recently started a diet. However, I have weighed myself today and my BMI is apparently 45 which has just knocked me for six.
I am so upset and disgusted with myself , I have beat myself up all day about this. I have done a lot of research the past few days and theres a lot of scary articles about how maternal death and infant death is linked to obesity, how overweight women have a much bigger chance of dying during pregnancy etc, developing DVTs (which is one of my massive hypochondriac fears).
I am terrified I am going to die during this pregnancy because of my weight that I am considering not going ahead with the pregnancy. I am losing sleep and every ache or pain I am worrying about a DVT. It has been mental torture so far and another 8 months of this seems unbearable.
Has anybody been very overweight with a positive story. (BMI 40+) Please dont judge me, I judge myself enough
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Feel like I'm too fat to be pregnant :(
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chocchips · 11/06/2014 15:45
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