PLZ HELP WEIGHT & PREGNANCY

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I’m being think it’ll cause defects or anything like that. If anything you just might feel uncomfortable. I’m 5ft but over weight and I carry big babies so with my it’s just my body hurts more. I think you can eat healthy and try to stay active and workout through pregnancy and you’ll be fine.

How far along are you?

I don’t think your weight will cause any birth defects, but it’s a lot to carry. When I had my first baby I was around 135kg and it was perfectly healthy and I had natural birth.

I think it really depends on your overall health and your weight is only one part. Sometimes a high weight body is handling it better than a person with less body fat. Your ethnicity and your muscle, your pancreas and your fitness all have an impact on your metabolic health.

A higher BMI might make it more difficult to see baby in scans, technically is slightly higher risk but not a major issue. I’d discuss with a health professional for the best information but imo terminating a wanted pregnancy because of weight is extreme, plenty of overweight and obese women have perfectly healthy pregnancies, births and babies, just usually with a bit of extra monitoring.

I was 141.1 at my booking appointment and I'm 145.6 now at 36+3. My pregnancy has been fine so far - like me and baby are perfectly healthy and my consultant is very happy. I have gestational diabetes, but my mom was diabetic and I knew I had a higher risk. Touch wood, I've had a textbook pregnancy so far despite being bigger. Also the midwives and consultants have been lovely and in no way shape or form made me feel bad about my weight or like it was an issue xx

I started pregnancy at 308 lbs (139.7 kg) and I've put on 12.8 lbs (5.8 kg) so far (31w5d). I ended up losing weight in my first trimester due to HG which eventually leveled out thanks to medication. I have a large for gestational age baby and polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid) which has led my care team to suspect gestational diabetes but no diagnosis yet. My blood pressure has been borderline throughout pregnancy. I will be induced early due to baby's size but he's perfectly healthy and doing great in there and the only difference for my delivery compared to straight sized folks will be higher doses of anesthia and a longer spinal needle. Other than that, the only thing possibly linked to my weight is increased back pain which comes with the territory for most mamas anyway!

Most docs will recommend higher dose folic acid for those of us with higher BMIs (5mg for the first trimester and 4mg after that) and you may want more massage/physiotherapy/chiropractic care for joint pain, but that's about it!