Jump In Weight Gain = Baby Growth Spurt?

[moter98]

In the past 3 weeks I've gained 5 lbs, eek! I was hoping to gain a steady 1 lb a week. Admittedly I've indulged for a few days, but overall I've kept my eating pretty steady to what it was before, allowing for a couple hundred extra calories a day since start of second tri. Since 16 weeks to now I have gained 5 lbs! If it continues like this I will be huge at delivery. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced a "growth spurt" and weight gain leveled off to a more normal rate soon after?

 

[Nikko88]

I definitely think there are growth spurts. I also seem to get variations in water retention from day to day and week to week. It's like I get bloated to expand the skin, lose the water weight then gain some physical weight back without feeling so much like and expanding balloon.

I've also heard that weight gain drops off in the last month because the stomach gets compressed.

As long as my weight gain averages out to a pound a week over the course of a month, my midwife told me not to be concerned.