Worried about healthy weight gain!

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Hello

First time pregnancy. I’ve tried googling this but get conflicting results, I’m worried about weight gain and getting back to pre-pregnancy weight once the baby is born.

I weighed 8 stone 8 pounds before I got pregnant, I’m 29 weeks and weigh 10 stone 4 pounds. Is this normal ? When I googled it said that normal weight gain for whole pregnancy is around 2 stone?? I’ve still got 3 months left and already nearly gained that!! I’ve tried eating less but I’m always seem to be hungry. I drink 2 litres of water a day what else can I do?

There are a few apps out there that that chart of your 'goal' weight gain for each week if you think you would find that useful. There are a few chains on MN about women gaining (and losing!) 4 stone in pregnancy, so just do what you can to not eat total crap and I'm sure you'll be just fine. For what it's worth, you weigh less now than before I got pregnant, so I doubt you have anything to worry about! Your weight gain doesn't sound out of the ordinary to me.

I don't think eating less is wise? Baby needs all the good nutrients. Just eat the good stuff and try not stress about weight.

How tall are you? The weight gain indicator would be for an average size woman so you can afford to put on a little more.

I don’t know how tall you are but with your initial weight, your sound very, very slim. If so, you need to put on more weight than the average woman for a healthy pregnancy.
By the same token, women who start heavy shouldn’t put much on.

I’m 5”4 and when I said eat less I mean chocolate etc. I’ve been craving all bad foods the past month of my pregnancy so trying to eat less of that