Weight Gain at 22 weeks!!

AnnaRedhead

Is anyone else out there like me and gained more than 5-10 pounds? I have gained a whopping 22 pounds and I'm 22 weeks!! My doctor has not said anything to me and when I bring up how much I've gained he keeps telling me that since I was slender when I got pregnant and I'm tall-ish (5'7) that it's totally ok. He said you're actually supposed to gain more weight if you are slender when you become pregnant.

I just keep seeing all these posts about only gaining 5 or so pounds and it worries me! Anyone else gained around this much or it it just me?

AnnaRedhead

oh and I haven't thrown up at all (knock on wood) so don't know if that would have something to do with it?

kjuryfl

Same here, up 20lbs at my 20 week appointment. not sure what i'm at now (refuse to go on the scale). 5'6" and petite pre-pregnancy, my Dr. is not concerned at all. 

AnnaRedhead

Whew! Good lord I was beginning to wonder if it was just me. All those posts were scaring me! lol

I've been refusing to look at the scale too but finally made myself tonight

BK33

who only gained 5lbs!!!! that's amazing.  I have gained 17lbs AND i have gained the last 3lbs in one week.  My OB said the baby is probably having a growth spurt so I shouldn't worry.  The crazy thing is that everybody says I look exactly the same except for the belly ofcourse so I'm not gonna stress too much about it.

jntaylor11

Yay! I've been reading the same posts:( I'm almost 20 weeks and I've gained about 15-17 lbs... Depending on the day... Its pretty much all in the belly and boobs cause if I could button my PP pants they'd still fit... Lol I'm not eating crazy either, I'm actually watching what I eat and it isn't all that different from my PP diet accept more veggies... Glad to have some ppl to relate to:)

Jelliebean1982

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

xiongyeng83

I think I gain somewhere around 10-15 pounds and I'm at 20 weeks. I've gained most of it this past month! So my doctor had told me to make sure to keep a steady weight from here on out. I'm going to start exercising a little bit more in the days to come!

megd06

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

*raises hand*...well, I'm not 22 wks, but I've only gained 3 thus far--but that's b/c m/s was a biotch the 1st tri, and I was playing the gaining/losing yoyo....so it's been just now that i've gained. I was like that with DS though (Gained 25 total) and he came out fine

OP--I think your weight gain is pretty normal (you can use the pregnancy weight calculator on babycenter, and it'll tell you where your weight falls) and if your dr. isn't concerned--then you have no reason to be either.

Meehanbride

Sounds completely normal to me. I have gained 13lbs at 19 weeks. Everyone gains differently.

eesome

I've gained 11lbs. so far, but it varies from woman to woman.

I gained more by this point with my son, and I think I was up to 18lbs by now. I ended up gaining a total of 29lbs with him. I am also a slender build, and my doctor wanted me to gain between 25-40lbs, so I was right on target.

Try not to worry! It all evens out in the end. 

robnnoel

megd06:

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

*raises hand*...well, I'm not 22 wks, but I've only gained 3 thus far--but that's b/c m/s was a biotch the 1st tri, and I was playing the gaining/losing yoyo....so it's been just now that i've gained. I was like that with DS though (Gained 25 total) and he came out fine

OP--I think your weight gain is pretty normal (you can use the pregnancy weight calculator on babycenter, and it'll tell you where your weight falls) and if your dr. isn't concerned--then you have no reason to be either.

I am almost in the same boat. As of this morning I am still down about 3 lbs from pp weight.  And of course I also had bad m/s, it was horrible!!  Once I started getting over m/s I was hit with some kind of viral infection for almost 2 weeks last month.  At my last weeks apt. I had lost 2 lbs from the month before.  The doc gave me a little talking too, but he knew I was sick.  He told me he wanted to see me gain 4 lbs by next visit.  So I would say that even though I havent technically gained any weight yet, I have not enjoyed one moment of the not gaining any weight.  I am just glad I am starting to feel better and am able to actually eat food now!

ETA:  OP I think you are doing fine, especially if you started out on the thin side, I still have extra weight on from DS so I am not expecting to gain too much early on.

gooliahank

I've gained 16 lbs by 22 weeks.  My midwife said she wasn't worried at all. 

littlepoppyseed

I have already gained 20ish lbs... no worries about it here! I was thin to start (120) and tall (5'8), so I figure I have lots of wiggle room with the recommended weight.  I gained 35lbs with DS, and lost it all within the first year without effort.

StefaniePace

I have also gained 20 pounds at 22 weeks. My doctor has not said anything but I think its coming. I am 5'7 and was not small at the beginning of this. I was a size 14/16. 

Arlysellers

Im 19 weeks and I have gained 16 Lbs. My doctor said theat its nothing to worry just yet. Most women have one month that they gain a lot of weight, and will start to level off. I feel much better reading all your posts. I dont feel fat, but I dont want to get out of hand either.

laurel-poppy

At 22 weeks I'm 144 (started at 125 and 5' 3") so that's 19 lbs. I was worried for my height that was too much put everyone says it's just in my belly and boobs. Midwife hasn't said anything so I must be on the right track! No worries my dear. I hear you lose most of the weight in the first week after birth. 

Duckieer

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

 

I have actually lost 5 pounds since my bfp and had no morning sickness... However I am a bigger girl and am supposed to only gain 5-10 pounds the whole pregnancy so I nor doctor are worried about it. 

jfgates05

I'm about your height (closer to 5'8), and I'm just 20 weeks, and I've gained 13-14 lbs already! My dr wasn't concerned, so I'm trying not to be, but I've quit reading the posts about people only gaining 5 lbs!!

homediva

I've stopped counting, LOL! I am petite and only 5'2 pre-pregnancy, I think I am up like 25 LB at least!! My doctor isn't worried either.

AKBrideinMD

I'm up 21 lbs and 22.5 weeks, and I was not small to begin with. I wasn't obese, but I was short and could probably stand to lose 15-25 lbs before. My doctor isn't concerned at all, I had one big jump (9 lbs!!!) this month and she said it's probably my body playing catch-up and everything else looked good. I was so relieved to hear that!

katiegal

I'm at 21 weeks and stepped on the scale this morning and was 155, so that's a gain for 20 lbs for me.  I was concerned at first but not so much anymore.  Like everyone on here is saying, if your doctor isn't concerned, then you shouldn't be either.

kim.watki

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

Um, me! I'm 21 weeks tomorrow, though. No m/s, but I guess I should chalk it up to no cravings and no weight gain until the 2nd trimester! It's absolutely true that everyone gains differently and we can all still be supportive of each other

tiff012982

Up till my last appointment at 18 weeks I had gained 4 lbs.  Since week 19 (only 2 weeks)  I have put on 5 lbs, so that's 9 lbs total.  I haven't been eating any differently so I hope this jump in weight is due to a growth spurt.  I can't imagine gaining 2.5 each week here on out.  I don't think we should worry about it unless our doctors say otherwise. 

LJR 84

I've gained 19lbs at 23 weeks. I was close to being underweight pre-preg, so I could stand to gain a good 25-30lbs.

I gained close to 30 with DD I think. It was all gone- plus some, within a month or two. I worried about my weight gain a decent amount when I was pregnant with her. Turned out it was all for nothing!

eta: Between 19-23 weeks I'm experiencing a decent jump. I have my appt Friday and expect a good 6-7lb increase from my last appt, putting me at a 19lb gain.

JessLingle

kim.watki:

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

Um, me! I'm 21 weeks tomorrow, though. No m/s, but I guess I should chalk it up to no cravings and no weight gain until the 2nd trimester! It's absolutely true that everyone gains differently and we can all still be supportive of each other

I don't think there is anything wrong with only gaining 5lbs at all.  Right now, at 20 weeks, I have only gained 1lb.  I don't think I gained anything with DS until around 22-24 weeks.  I only gaind a total of 23lbs with him.  It's totally normal.

JessLingle

kim.watki:

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

Um, me! I'm 21 weeks tomorrow, though. No m/s, but I guess I should chalk it up to no cravings and no weight gain until the 2nd trimester! It's absolutely true that everyone gains differently and we can all still be supportive of each other

I don't think there is anything wrong with only gaining 5lbs at all.  Right now, at 20 weeks, I have only gained 1lb.  I don't think I gained anything with DS until around 22-24 weeks.  I only gaind a total of 23lbs with him.  It's totally normal.

animalcrckers

i'm 22 weeks and i'm up 7.5 lbs so far. i only gained 22 lbs total with DD#1 so i'm on track for the same about of weight gain it looks like. i know i'll have a growth spurt month though and gain more weight than i should in 4 weeks....

September2007

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

This was me at 20w, but at 22w, I had gained 4 pounds more, so now I'm up 9, as of last Monday (3/28).  I'm sure it's even more since then, as I finally stopped throwing at 20w, which was so helpful!

I'm also on a high protein diet now, and need to drink my weight in water each day (1 lb = 1 oz) to ward off the low fluid issue we have with Baby B, which should also help with the weight gain.  And keep them both cooking as long as possible!! 

Everyone gains differently -- don't worry, as long as your OB says you're okay.  Thinking of you all... 

CactusGirl

AnnaRedhead:

Is anyone else out there like me and gained more than 5-10 pounds? I have gained a whopping 22 pounds and I'm 22 weeks!! My doctor has not said anything to me and when I bring up how much I've gained he keeps telling me that since I was slender when I got pregnant and I'm tall-ish (5'7) that it's totally ok. He said you're actually supposed to gain more weight if you are slender when you become pregnant.

I just keep seeing all these posts about only gaining 5 or so pounds and it worries me! Anyone else gained around this much or it it just me?

I am in the exact same boat as you. I went to the doc Monday and I have gained 22 lbs in 23 weeks (7 lbs was just in the last month!) . My doctor said I am a skinny girl so it is fine and I can afford to put on the extra weight, so she isn't worried. However, it still makes me feel like a fat cow and makes me wonder if I am going to be 45+ lbs by the time this baby gets here . Even though my doc isn't worried, I am because it just seems like so much so fast.

kellie7

oh god, i'm one of those crazy people who have only gained 5 lbs! i'm really slim as is and have only gained between 3-5 lbs. i was a bit worried, but my doctor didn't seem to be. my A/S seemed like everything was on track. i'm eating, i swear! sometimes it's healthy, and sometimes it is not. SN - pickle pringles rock my world. anyways, i think everyone gains different. i fully expect to just pop one day and gain 5lbs in week.

Phil413

BK33:

who only gained 5lbs!!!! that's amazing.  I have gained 17lbs AND i have gained the last 3lbs in one week.  My OB said the baby is probably having a growth spurt so I shouldn't worry.  The crazy thing is that everybody says I look exactly the same except for the belly ofcourse so I'm not gonna stress too much about it.

I know! There was a post that went around about a week ago and I freaked out. Ladies were saying they gained 5 lbs, or had lost weight still, etc. I gained 10 lbs., according to my appointment yesterday. I'm 22 weeks and 3 days. My doctor said that she was proud of me for gaining 10 lbs and being more than halfway through because I'm overweight to begin with. Thank God! I was getting upset after that post.

Gaining weight is healthy when you're pregnant and everyone does it at different rates. If the doctor's not upset about it then everything should be fine. My doc said it should be 1-2 lbs per week.

lovelymissautumn

JessLingle:

kim.watki:

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

Um, me! I'm 21 weeks tomorrow, though. No m/s, but I guess I should chalk it up to no cravings and no weight gain until the 2nd trimester! It's absolutely true that everyone gains differently and we can all still be supportive of each other

I don't think there is anything wrong with only gaining 5lbs at all.  Right now, at 20 weeks, I have only gained 1lb.  I don't think I gained anything with DS until around 22-24 weeks.  I only gaind a total of 23lbs with him.  It's totally normal.

 

I'm in this boat! OP- if your doc isn't worried about it neither should you! Like other posts said, everyone gains differently. I had no m/s but still lost a few lbs in 1st tri. Now I think I'm finally up like 2 lbs since pp weight (118) and I'm only 5'2. My doc said if I'm still not gaining weight by 24 weeks then he'll look into it but he's not worried about it yet. So I'll just continue eating my mud pie ice cream and snacking through the day! It'll catch up to me I know it.

cwifekmom

Everyone is just different!

 I have not gained anything yet, but my doctor was not concerned at all.  He said baby is measuring perfect, and that's what matters as long as I am continuing to eat well.  I was not small before, but not large either.  With my DD, I was slow to gain as well, but gained 29 lbs by the end.

hsunij

At my 20wk appt, that scale shows i've gained about 21lbs and my doctor keeps saying "good! you're gaining!" and im not tall! im 5'4 and im not overweight but im not underweight either. so im about a pound a week.

KangarooMom

megd06:

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

*raises hand*...well, I'm not 22 wks, but I've only gained 3 thus far--but that's b/c m/s was a biotch the 1st tri, and I was playing the gaining/losing yoyo....so it's been just now that i've gained. I was like that with DS though (Gained 25 total) and he came out fine

OP--I think your weight gain is pretty normal (you can use the pregnancy weight calculator on babycenter, and it'll tell you where your weight falls) and if your dr. isn't concerned--then you have no reason to be either.

I'm right there also, at 5 lbs in 23 weeks.  I did have some ms but I mostly lost some weight while having the flu and constantly running after my toddler... (We call her DASH because she's superfast) I'm 5'9 and started out at 122lbs so the doc is expecting me to gain around 25-30 this pregnancy and is not worried about the few pounds I've gained so far. It will happen, just like with my DD, in third tri it just piles on. Everyone is different.

KangarooMom

KangarooMom:

megd06:

Jelliebean1982:

Who's only gained 5lbs?  I hope they are ok and have stopped throwing up by now.  I know the m/s can do that to you.  Everyone gains weight differently and that's ok. 

*raises hand*...well, I'm not 22 wks, but I've only gained 3 thus far--but that's b/c m/s was a biotch the 1st tri, and I was playing the gaining/losing yoyo....so it's been just now that i've gained. I was like that with DS though (Gained 25 total) and he came out fine

OP--I think your weight gain is pretty normal (you can use the pregnancy weight calculator on babycenter, and it'll tell you where your weight falls) and if your dr. isn't concerned--then you have no reason to be either.

I'm right there also, at 5 lbs in 23 weeks.  I did have some ms but I mostly lost some weight while having the flu and constantly running after my toddler... (We call her DASH because she's superfast) I'm 5'9 and started out at 122lbs so the doc is expecting me to gain around 25-30 this pregnancy and is not worried about the few pounds I've gained so far. It will happen, just like with my DD, in third tri it just piles on. Everyone is different.

 

I guess I should confess to sitting here and writing this while eating a cinnabun and girl scout cookies and a milkshake! It's almost as bad as when I decided to have lunch at Haagen Daas....

Lauraluvsphan

Well I've only gained 2Ibs & pre pregnancy I was in a healthy BMI range for my height. My Dr. doesn't seem concerned at all. Everyone is different with weight gain during pregnancy.