So - I'll be honest. This is my 3rd pregnancy. I had a bit of a 'been there, done that' attitude about how this twin pregnancy would go. I knew I'd probably gain a couple more pounds, but I honestly thought that given that the babies tend to be smaller, and you deliver earlier, that all in all... not much different. I think Karma is coming back to bite me in the booty. I'm 22 weeks along - as of Christmas, I had lost a couple of pounds (food aversions, mild nausea, etc) - I'm normally thin, so I was actually looking a little underweight at the time. Since Christmas, though - oh lord, I've gained about 13 pounds and I swear it's ALL BELLY!!! How big can/will this thing really get? I carried small with both of my prior pregnancies, and went to term. I easily look like I did at 8 months with each of those, in terms of belly size. I'm honestly getting terrified about how large this thing will go. And I'm solidly gaining 1.5 pounds a week with no sign of slowing. For the first couple of weeks I was like, oh - growth spurt... oh - growth spurt... Ok - how many 'growth spurts' can I give myself credit for? Anyway - just wondering if anyone else is being slightly taken aback by the incredible growing belly, or if I was alone in my delusions.
I feel your pain! I lost about 15 lbs my first trimester and now am gaining it ALLLLL back! At my OB appointment on Friday she was SHOCKED at how much I'd grown. Let me point out, not how much weight I'd gained but at how much my uterus had grown. Right now I'm 24 weeks and at my apt on Friday I was measuring 31. My DH seems to think its funny to speculate at how big I'll be come delivery. Boooo!
I am right there with you! I have gained 40 lbs. so far and I am only in my 27th week. The other day I was trying to walk between two chairs at a restaurant and I got totally stuck. I looked like a trapped animal! DH had to rescue me, after laughing heartily at what a mess I was in. I haven't dared to pull out the measuring tape and actually measure AROUND myself to see just how HUGE I have become. Anyway, the moral of the story is: everyone gains different amounts at different times and in different places. If you're like me, you will start resembling an apple on legs more than a person sooner than you are comfortable with. Talk to your doctor and if he/she has no concerns about your weight gain, don't fret. Especially since this is your 3rd pregnancy, I suspect your kiddies will have you running in circles, and the weight falling off, in no time. Also, don't know if you're in to this kind of thing, but since my girth has far exceeded what I thought possible for my frame, I have sought out someone to do a belly cast of me toward the end. While I don't think I will ever for get my epic proportioned size any time soon, I want the proof so I can show the girls, "see what I did for you!" Good luck!
Don't worry you can only get bigger! I'm almost at 36 weeks and I am HUGE. DH spends ages looking for car parking spaces everywhere we go so that I can actually get out of the car. We can't park in our garage anymore as we can't open the doors wide enough for me to get in. Not doing much for the self esteem really. Not to worry. I'm all baby at the moment.
Haha - I'm laughing along with all of you. Especially the 'getting stuck' stories it's honestly not the weight - I can ignore the scale no problem and have no concerns about losing it. It's what the weight objectively says about how much the belly is filling up and out! . This thing seems to have a life all it's own (2, I guess) and I can't conceive of another 15+ weeks at this rate of growth. I feel like I'll be in the movie Aliens and eventually they're going to just tear their way out of there
My twins were also my 3rd pregnancy. I too was on the slim side and was all belly. I looked full term by about 23 weeks. Weight gain was not an issue for me. I gained less with the twins than I did with my son but my sheer size really made me awkward and sore. The growth does slow down a lot towards the end. Hang in there, our bodies are amazing things!
well i gained 50 lbs total at the end (37 weeks)... all of it was gained past 14 weeks. I measured 45 weeks at 35 weeks gestation and for the life of me can't remember how big i was after that. Just expect to be very big... oh yeah, i'm only 5'2" and at the end i weighed 205... miserable to the extreme and oh so ginormous... it will get better, but make sure to drink plenty of water or you will swell (which only makes things worst).
Oh I am so there with you. The gals I work with joke that my belly grow throughout the day and when I don't see people for awhile they are amazed at how much I have grown. I am almost 27 weeks, at my 25 week appt I measured 32 weeks and at my 26 week appt I measured 36 weeks, yikes!!! I have gain 40 lbs since I stopped throwing up at 18 weeks but my doctor encourages weight gain with me since she I have been contracting and she is worried I will go early. I figured if there is any doctor's order that I will follow, it is to gain as much weight as possible and since I plan to nurse afterwards (plus run after 3 boys), I am hoping it will come off quickly!! I too am small so it throws me for a bit of a loop to get so big. I did see on here that someone said they had the most growth in the 2nd trimester so maybe there is hope for it to slow down a bit soon!!
Omg, I know! At 30 weeks, my belly is measuring 38 weeks and no end to the growth in sight! I actually asked my Dr, how big can it get? He said, well, eventually you'll run out of room and have the babies (duh) but I've had patients get to 51". Yikes!! So depressing because each day I put on my cute maternity tops only to discover that yet another one doesn't fit me anymore....ugh. And all those large tops that all my friends with kids gave me early on that I swore I would *never* fit into....guess what I'm wearing now! Interesting exercise though--I read this in a book--measure your thigh and measure your upper arm and as you go through pregnancy and get your belly measurements, keep track of the other ones too. They don't change! It's truly all in the belly (or mostly).
I wish I could say it's all in the belly. My arms and thighs and fingers and toes and face grew as well. I'm 30 wks now, third pregnancy. I'm sure that I've never been this big before- and I've been saying that since 26 weeks. Whenever I need to switch side in the night, I need to think twice, to decide that's really what I needed to do, then to turn to my back, then to adjust my pillows, blanket, let my belly settle a little, then turn to another side. If someone (likely my husband or children)asked me to "move over a little", I'll look at them furiously and ask if there is really a need for me to move. And OMG, I still have quite a few more weeks to go....
I'm the same way! It literally takes a full 5 minutes to reposition myself in the middle of the night. And if I move even just a tad too fast then I get awful ligament pain and have to start all over! And mine isn't all in the belly either. Except mine seems to have all migrated to my butt! DH seems to like it but it's all I can do to hope that my rear deflates a little after birth.
Mine isnt all belly either My legs are huge! Thighes, legs, butt- all that *sigh* but thats always where I put on weight so Im not surprised. boooooo.
Ya'll are scaring me lol I am 18 weeks and definitely bigger than people with 1, but not so gigantic that people automatically know it is twins (yet).
Haha--maybe it's just my gigantic belly that is making my legs/arms look unchanged by comparison! I haven't measured in a while...(plus, never said *anything* about my butt not getting huge!! ) Agreed about flipping over at night--what a production! I read something about a twin mom complaining about not wanting the weight of her belly on top of her for even one second and I thought, really? How bad could it be? Now. I. Know.
Love this thread. I'm 21 weeks and feel like the belly is expanding at a rate I cannot keep up with. My maternity tops are hovering way above my pants!! I keep wondering about another 15 weeks of expansion, and just think that you never hear about babies coming through your belly like Aliens. But its incredible. My doc says I'm fine and the babies are fine. But I did walk into a chair at lunch today, cause I swore I could fit through. Whoops!
This thread got me to really wondering, "how big am I?" So, I pulled on DH's size 42" waist jeans. Imagine my horror when I realized they almost fit around the biggest part of the Buddha belly - thankfully there is still a bit (OK about 2 inches) of overlap. Quite a shock since I started in a women's size 4 pant. 4 to 42" in 27 short weeks. :rotflmbo: Needless to say, I ran out to show DH and we both got a good laugh out of the whole thing. That's one image that won't make the facebook page!
