Weight before pregnancy

RissaR1 - Me and hubby were ttc for 4 years. Went to see a Homeopathic Fertility clinic end of last year, doctor told me I need to loose weight. I've lost a total of 21,4 kgs and end of July'15 found out we're expecting. Toooo much excited.

I'm now 22 week's only gained total of 4,5kgs so far. Don't think it's to much.

Hi there RissaR1

I was also trying to loose weight before I fell pregnant (was diagnosed with PCOS) when I started to loose some I fell pregnant... Same second time around I still had 7kg to loose from previous pregnancy and started to work on losing it
I think I went down 2kg and fell pregnant again.... It did bother me also before the time as I wanted to start the pregnancy
with a healthy weight and just enjoy being pregnant but in the end it didn't bother me too much

I am 7weeks along now and much heavier than what I wanted to be before falling pregnant again, I will just try and take a very healthy approach to this pregnancy...

This is a decision only you can make, the first few month before you properly start showing you do feel uncomfortable either way what your weight is, I found it the most yukkie stage as your clothes start sitting tighter but you don't have a bump yet. They call it thickening of the waist.

Good luck....

One last thing that I told myself after finding out I am pregnant at least now I didn't work hard before hand to loose all the weight just to get fat again for 9 months ;o)

Hi ladies,

I'd love some opinions!

I'm so confused and stubborn and quite a few other things at the moment! I'm overweight and was hoping to lose quite a bit of weight before we start ttc, but that is such a battle and for no fancy reason - just me not making a big enough effort in between work and studies.

We wanted to start trying in about a month, but that's very little time to lose much. I'm desperate to start a family, but want to enjoy it and I just have this feeling that being big + pregnant I'll end up with low self esteem and feeling so super uncomfortable that I won't embrace it the way I had hoped.

Its difficult to just say okay lets postpone though because we've already waited quite a while.

Any ladies who have been or are in the same type of situation? Or anyone in general wanting to share their story? What did you weigh when you conceived?

Thank you!