Weight and Waiting (by sarah)
Alaric finially got me some bathroom scales yesturday - I weigh in at 15 stone. This is a stone lighter than I was just before having Jeany even though I started this pregnancy about 3 stone heavier than I was at the beginning of Jean's.
I am really happy about this as double my weight was not pleasant and I was petrified of doing the same with this pregnancy and starting out that much heavier it really would have been a health disastor. Of course I did loose weight at the beginning of the pregnancy with the whole 'food posioning' business but I have also I have been eating me and Alaric food and not the hospital food. I have also not been bed ridden and though can't walk far can still walk some and of course I have tablets and blood testing kit to keep the gestational diebetes under control. All so very very different from Jeany's pregnancy.
I have a birth plan as well - this involves saying yes to vit K injections and saying I want to breast feed. I found out that breast feeding is good for me as well as the baby from the midwife. I knew it helped with weight loss and with baby blues but there are medium and long term benifts too which include stuff like cancer resistance (specifically breast and oviarian which with mum going in for another lumpectomy is a encouraging to know) and the other one is after the menopause it will help me stave off osteoporosis - something I've been meaning to talk to the Dr about now I'm in my 30's anyway! (Again due to family history though I am sure my nan probably breast fed some of her children - nutrition would not have been balanced like it is today plus her teen years were during the second world war).
But I am a weird mix of board and worried and fantic about the house!
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Sun 23rd Jan 2011 3:08 pm
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By angie (Mum), Tue 25th Jan 2011 @ 3:25 pm
Your Nan breast fed all six of her babies until they were 18 months old at least. The bone trouble needs to be dealt with as her Father was the one with Osteoporosis he fed no children his wife did not have it lived to 93 and fed 8 children until they were at least 2. You however may be lucky enough to favour all the other members of the family who have not suffered with this. Although my spine is involved it is no where near the problem for me that it was for my Mum. Just do as much load bearing exercise as you can and carry on eating plenty of dark green veg and goats milk and cheese. Make the medical profession aware, but try not to worry. See you later, love