In your second trimester, your belly swells up with a couple extra pounds of amniotic fluid and a rapidly growing uterus. You are not destined to put on too much weight by the end of pregnancy. A higher second trimester weight gain is normal. In plain English: pregnant women usually gain more weight in their second trimesters than in their third. Unfortunately, the IOM explained this in such obscure researcher-speak that the message may have gotten lost. – IOM 2009 report on pregnancy weight gain, pg. “The pattern of Gestational Weight Gain is most commonly described as sigmoidal, with mean weight gains higher in the second than the third trimester across BMI categories, except for obese women” The good folks at the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) who came up the current weight gain guidelines for pregnant women agree: Is gaining weight in pregnancy really supposed to be constant? The same amount week after week, month after month – as she and her nifty weight gain chart seem to assume? Should weight gain be consistent throughout pregnancy? Okay, I’ll confess, at that point, I stopped listening, and started wondering: Does this even make sense?
The lecture began – “Eat only half the sandwich. Five pounds over the recommended 25-35 lbs. But now, she explained, I was projected to gain 40 lbs. Up until then, my trajectory predicted a healthy 30 pound gain. My nausea had faded, my energy was back, and I was working out again after a two-month hiatus.Īccording to my doctor, I had gained “too much weight” in the last month. At my 24-week appointment when I was pregnant with my first, I finally felt pretty good, happily ensconced in the “best” trimester.
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