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weight loss worry

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summermum · 06/10/2005 14:11

This may seem like a silly problem but does anyone know if it is healthy to start losing weight in mid/late pregnancy. I would like to stress I am not trying to lose weight, it is just happening. Through this whole pregnancy (3rd one) i have had a very slow weight gain which has concerned me ( and no- one else). I am 28 weeks and have put on 13 1/2lbs altogether now, however int he last few days I have lost 1 1/2lbs, not sure how as I eat normally allthough not excessively. Should I be concerned or just consider myself extrememly lucky. All is well the baby, I was at midwife last week and heartbeat was fine and she is kicking away every day and fundal height seemed to measure okay, however at 24 weeks I was taken into hospital with suspected prem labour, but it was nothing except i lost a small part of the plug. The week late I was taken in with bad bright red bleeding and a scan showed this to be from a low lying placenta (5cms from opening of cervix) so not severe yet as it is not blocking birth canal. hope someone can help, sorry for being long winded

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sandyballs · 06/10/2005 14:32

Haven't got any advice really but wanted to bump for you.

compo · 06/10/2005 14:34

I don't think 1 and 1/2 lbsa is anything to worry about because you can lose that in a day and then tomorrow when you weigh yourself you could have put on 2lbs iywim

summermum · 06/10/2005 14:36

thanks sandyballs, you would think this being number 3 I would breeze thro' with no worries, but after 2 hospital scares I am dead paranoid and the slightest silly thing seems to worry me now, i love the nick name by the way

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