weight gain at 21 weeks

[hospital]

how much have you gained ? ive gained 9lbs by 21 weeks! i think thats alot!

 

[JaneSharon86]

I've gained 1lb. Up until 20 weeks I hadn't gained a thing.

I've lost a lot of muscle though, which is heavier than fat/baby so think I've balanced myself out.

 

[JaneSharon86]

Just noticed my ticker says the baby is 1lb this week! Maybe thats what the 1lb is lol

 

[zulab]

I'd gained 14lb by 20 weeks and haven't weighed myself since. I was lean with a low BMI prior to pregnancy (they told me to eat as I would need to gain), and I've had to have a diet change as previously I couldn't stand carbs, and now I'm pregnant I can't keep anything but carbs down.

I think how much weight you gain depends on what you weighed to start with and how much your diet is affected. Other than the obvious extremes I don't think there are any rights or wrongs to when you gain and how much.

 

[pricebub]

1 am 8 kilos at 21 and a bit! That's like 17 pounds, the shame!

 

[babybambi2011]

ive put on 6-7lbs! :O when i found out i was pregnant i stopped going to the gym as id onlt been going for a month or 2 and thought id do more damamge than good as its a pretty intense workout. if id been going for 6 months or so then id keep going until i was too fat to get on the machines lol but yea, i feel fat n horrible!

 

[chattyB]

I've put on 7lb so far. I wasn't a big carb eater before pregnancy and maintained/lost weight by eating this way. First tri was awful, the only thing I could stomach was carbs. I have PCOS and insulin resistance so as soon as I up the carbs, the weight piles on. Since reaching 2nd tri, I have now (under midwife/drs advice) gone back to my lower carb eating habits, I feel great, heartburn has disappeared, loads of energy, stable appetite etc. I haven't put on any weight now for 3 weeks.

I was "fluffy around the edges" (read as "bigger than id like) before pregnancy with a BMI of 29.6 and could really do without piling on 3 stone before baby arrives - i'm hoping to keep my gain around the 20lb mark.

 

[mellyboo]

by the time i was 21 weeks i had put on 10!

 

[MissCurly]

Yeah i think i have put on about 10 ish lbs.

I am heavier than i would like. so I have been in a right old grump recently

 

[Sparrow85]

I've also put on 9lbs at 21 weeks. For my starting weight (8 stone) and height (5'2) I'm bang on track and could actually have gained a couple extra and still be ok.

So, depending on you're starting weight, I'd say you're doing absolutely fine.

 

[amy1234]

I've put in 10lbs.
No logic or reason other than the fact I'm giving into cravings for chocolate and crisps where as I would previously say no.

 

[brittybird]

At 21 weeks I put on 13 pounds, but was a little underweight pre-pregnancy so my midwife told me not to worry about the scale.

 

[BabyBumpAhead]

Also important to take into account pre-pregnancy body types and weights!

 

[tickledpink3]

Here I was feeling paranoid that I have 'only' gained 10lbs. I was becoming concerned because with my first, I had put on 18 by now.

 

[Hopefulk]

10lb!

 

[britt0285]

lol, i think i have gained almost 13 lbs at 22 weeks!

 

[always_xo]

I'm not sure what I had gained at 21 weeks but at 23 weeks I've gained about 10 pounds. I was stuck at 5 pounds forever, it seems like I've put on the extra 5 just within the past few weeks.

 

[Betrix]

I was overweight to start with at 5'6 191 lbs . I have gained 4lbs .

 

[Katze]

I am 15 weeks and have not gained one pound....yet

 

[AmesLouise]

I'm overweight and have a tremendous amount of swelling! I gained 3 pounds at 20 weeks