How much weight gain is good??

[kbaby]

Anyone know how much weight your supposed to put on. I'm 31 weeks and have so far gained 12lbs. I was 9 stone to start with. Should I have gained more weight. Im not hungry much and have just been eating my normal amount. But now im thinking that if I havent gained enough weight then the baby be under nourished and be small.
Help :/

I read somewhere that anything between 24 and 30lbs, I think it was, is normal.

Last time I gained 19lbs the whole pregnancy and I went 10 days overdue. This time they only weighed me at my booking in appointment and haven't since as they don't do that anymore. It's not productive for them to weigh the mothers as it causes anxiety and doesn't give any indication of how the baby is growing since every woman is different.

I however ask to be weighed at every appointment, every 4 weeks, because I'm nosy and I want to know but they don't write it in my notes. Last time I was weighed I had gained 19lbs, that was at 28 weeks and I haven't been weighed since, now 32 weeks. So I know I'm going to have gained more by now.

So long as you're eating and feel ok I don't think you have anything to worry about. AS a rough guide...

Your baby weighs approximately 7.3lbs

? The muscle layer of your womb (uterus) grows dramatically and weighs an extra 2lbs

? The placenta (afterbirth), which keeps your baby nourished, weighs approx 1.3lbs

? Your breasts weigh an extra 0.9lbs

? Your blood volume has increased and weighs an extra 2.6lbs

? You have extra fluid in your body, weighing 5.7lbs

? Plus, you will lay down some fat during your pregnancy to provide you with extra energy for breastfeeding. This comes to about 5.5lbs.

So, by the end of pregnancy you will weigh about 24.2lbs more than you did before you became pregnant. This is an average weight gain but not every woman is average. Some gain more some gain less.

the trick is not to worry about it, hard I know and if the baby needs any extra vitamins etc it will leech them from you.

Hope to have helped.

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Blimey Kbaby, you must've been reading my thoughts - I weighed myself for the first time since being to the first scan last night and I have gained 14 lbs approx. Unless the scales are way out, I am 33 weeks at the moment.

I have been eating as normal and taking multi vits to cover any that might be missed - I am no saint!

I'm going to get myself weighed in Boots or something to double check. However I don't feel too worried as the midwife said bump was in right place and size - plus he kicks like a mule!

Thanks Twiglett, the calculator was great! still not too worried at the moment - have 7 weeks approx to go so must be on track!

Please don't worry, I had lots of people making comments about now 'neat' my bump was ? including doctors (not my own doc). I was terrified I was having a low birth-weight baby, especially as stopping smoking was a real struggle. But GP insisted he'd be at least 8lbs and he was 8lb 4oz. And completely and utterly healthy.

my janet balanskas book says you have an extra 9 pints of blood in you during pg. 9 PINTS!!!! How much must that weigh?? And 100 TIMES AS MUCH oestragen and progestorone as normal!! hea-vy...

Ah that would explain why they don't mind taking armfuls out of me each week when they won't let me give blood when I'm not pregnant because I'm too small!!

Me again, kbaby!!
I think that this is the reason many mws don't weigh you.
I didn't eat any more in my last pregnancy than normal, they do say you don't eat for two really!!
Twiglett is so right, the baby takes everything off you. At least you won't have so much weight to lose after the birth. At my booking in, I hadn't put on any weight so far as I could see (don't really weigh myself) and the average weight gain at this stage is 5 lbs.
Go eat some chocolate!!!

The ideal gain must partly depend on your usual size... I'm pretty close to the "ideal" for my height. In 2 pregnancies I gained over 30 lbs and then was back to or below pre-pregnancy weight in 2 or 5 months. I had lost enough weight that it was annoying to have nothing in the wardrobe small enough! For me, I think anything less than 30 lbs might be a bad sign, but it would be very different if I was starting pregnancy out overweight, or if I didn't have a track record of getting close to underweight afterwards.

I've had the same questions all the way through kbaby, in my second trimester I lost almost 6lb from my start weight yet had no morning sickness or anything. People were always commenting on how small and neat (still get the neat but not the small) my bump was and I seemed to be right on track to gain the minimum amount of weight. Over the 5 weeks to 37wks I gained 12lb bringing up the weight gain to close to 30lb and have just lost 2 from 37 to 38wks. My mother worried about it more than anything, the midwife and doctor just said the baby would take what it needed (haven't really put any weight on anywhere except bump). Don't panic about it you don't need any other stress. Maybe do a food diary to work out what you are eating each day to make sure you are getting enough food if you are that worried about it.

Oh my god - I'm 17 weeks gobe and have gained a stone, I'm going to be a whale!!!

God I wish i could of gained less but i guess its my appetite combined with my sweet cravings not to mention my penchant for chicken nuggets and big macs!!

Oh well...

Hi I did the calculator from Twiglett and it said I would gain 25lbs. I suppose that gives me another 9 weeks to gain 12 lbs. Im taking pregnancy vitamins. Im just a bit concerned because everyone has said my bump is small and neat and even though its nice not to have gained weight everywhere else I know that my uterus is measuring 28 weeks instead of 31. When I asked the miswife she said the baby would be ok but just on the smallish side.

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I've just done the calculator Twiglet posted and I put on 21lbs over their maximum with DS1!!

ohh I wonder then as im all front if it will be a girl. DH wouldnt let me find out the sex at the scan but ive been dying to know. Especially as I saw a lush babies summer dress in mothercare on saturday

Don't buy it kbaby, it will be like wearing sunglasses on a summer's day; you always wish you had brought your umbrella within 20 minutes of leaving home.