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Daily Calorie Intake When Pregnant with Twins?
I am new to this board and new to the news of having twins. I was just wondering what some of your diets consisted of. I have read that common calorie intake is 2700 a day, seems like a lot??? Last night i made the mistake of skipping dinner, I just was not feeling good enough to eat anything and I paid for it this morning. I felt like all my energy and strength was gone when it came time to get up for work. Similar to when you have the flu and are pushing yourself t get up and get moving. Been trying to replinish all day. Interested particularly in ideas for what I can bring to work for lunch. Thanks ladies!!
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Re: Daily Calorie Intake When Pregnant with Twins?
I did not count my calories. I did make sure I ate enough protein. And never skip a meal! I ate pretty much every 2 hours! I ate a lot, but I tried to eat somewhat healthy! I gained 52 lbs. But I did gain a lot of water weight at the end.
I would bring snacks to work, because I knew if I didn't eat when I was hungry it would not be a good thing! I didn't bring my lunch to work though.
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Congrats!! Welcome to the board.
I was told to eat 2700 calories a day. You may want to read Dr. Barbara Luke's book for weight gain and food suggestions. She really pushes for a lot of weight gain by 24 weeks. I really struggled to gain the weight and ate a lot of peanut butter, cheeseburgers and drank Carnation Instant Breakfast with 2% milk. It was a struggle, but I gained 25lbs by 24 weeks. I am so glad I did. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and put on a strict diet. I gained about 5lbs in the last 3 months of the pregnancy. Despite this, because of the early weight gain, my girls were good weights. It seems impossible to eat that much, but its so important! GL!
I have Dr. Luke's book and have been trying to incorporate the suggested foods into my diet. However, even on Zofran I'm so sick and its hard to keep anything down. I'm really trying though. Once the "morning" sickness, in my case round-the-clock sickness passes, I'm really going to have to try to eat much more.
The suggestions for 1st trimester are lots of foods with B vitamins and lots of protein. I've been eating eggs/egg salad or making chicken breasts and making sandwiches for lunch- also made a london broil to make sandwiches with. Mostly though I've been eating cereal, which is ok since its fortified with lots of vitamins- and I try to have it with a good amount of milk and a banana or an apple. Cereal is easiest for me to keep down right now.
Good luck!
***Twin fraternal girls born at 35w6d in 12/2008***
Ditto this. You might not be able to eat ALL the recommended amounts in all categories but at least get her goals for protein and dairy, and then half to 2/3 in the other category. That's what I did and gained right on schedule and had 6.10 and 6.7 babies at 37w6d.