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When did you start to swell??
I have heard that one of the most inconvenient parts of being preggo is the water weight - swelling hands and feet...
I have not experienced any of this yet. Does it happen to everyone or could I be lucky enough not to get that? My hands and feet still look and feel the same as they always have. My shoes and wedding rings still fit...
Is there something wrong with me or should I count this as a blessing? Will it catch up?
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Re: When did you start to swell??
I started noticing it around 30 weeks.
Just like nearly every other pregnancy symptom, everyone is different. Some people swell a little, some a lot & others not at all.
This week (34) my face looks and feels like I an hoarding a watermelon in my chin!!!
AND my baby shower is Sunday, so I got cheese it up for pictures.
I don't remember exactly when I started swelling but it got really bad at about 30 weeks. I haven't worn my rings in quite a while. I am not at the point that I am being told I have stage IV pitting edema, that's FUN!!! I love that my feet look like stress balls and hold impressions of everything and OH.MY.GOSH do they hurt. I would count your blessings, sweet girl. PRAY you don't swell. Nobody told me that it was going to hurt.
My feet started to swell at 22 weeks. My rings still fit, though I do take them off at night because of the overnight swelling.
Count it as a blessing. It could catch up with you later though, or you could continue to be lucky.
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I first noticed the swelling last week when I went to remove my wedding band to do dishes and really struggled. I haven't returned it to my finger since. I'm not sure if it's due completely to water retention, though. I live in a tropical area where temperatures are pretty high this time of year.
Mine started at almost 29 weeks on the dot. I gaine 5 lbs. at the Dr. that week for NO reason. They said it was water gain but I have been puffy feet and handed since. Count it as a blessing but wait a cuple weeks. It's not that bad...you just have to rest more.
In fact, around that time was when I also started to feel big body movement so you have that to look forward to.
I started swelling right away, before I even new I was pregnant. But this was due to my arthritis... by the end of my 1st tri I could barely walk, especially on stairs. When 2nd tri started I went to my rheumatologist and was able to get a cortisone shot in both my ankle and knee (after he took alomst a cup and a half of fluid out of my knee.) My ankle needed another shot the next month.
Since then things were pretty quiet until I hit 38 weeks. Since then both my feet have been swollen and if I don't keep up with drinking a lot of water it gets worse.
I think it might be an individual thing too. I haven't had any swelling yet and I've just reached 37 weeks. We've moved into really warm weather here over the last couple of weeks, so I fully expected to experience swelling but so far so good.
I've either been lucky, or the things I do in my daily life have helped (only moderate salt consumption, exercise five days a week still, drink LOTS of water). Then again I have friends that did these things too and had swelling, so who knows!