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Pregnancy
weight gain is not only a natural process, but a necessity as well. Your body
needs to store more fat and minerals because now you not only have to nourish
yourself, but also nourish the development of your child.
Pregnancy
weight gain is a necessity, but you must make sure that you do not gain extra
weight. If you become over weight, you might have complications or difficulties
with the child’s delivery.
So
how will you know that you are starting to gain those unnecessary extra pounds,
and if you do gain them how do you lose them?
With
so much importance associated to the weight that the mother-to-be gains during
the pregnancy, you need to make sure that you are eating the healthiest and
beneficial diet available to you; but, this is a diet that is not intended for
weight loss, it is intended for proper nutrition.
A
healthy diet will help keep you in proper health, nourish your developing baby,
and will also help to gain or lose your weight as your condition may demand it.
Generally,
during the first 3 months (the first trimester) a pregnant woman should gain
around 2 to 4 pounds. From the third month on, the mother needs to gain at
least 1 pound every week until the delivery.
Therefore,
a mother expecting a single baby will need to gain about 26 to 28 pounds, but
if she is expecting twins then she will need to gain even more weight i.e.
around 35 to 40 pounds (averaging 1.5 pounds a week.)
The
weight that a woman needs to gain for her pregnancy has already been discussed,
but how much of the pregnancy weight gain is actually the baby’s weight?
The
weight that the mother gains, surely isn’t all about the baby’s! And it is not;
the entire baby weight or the entire weight that the mother gains includes
several body tissues that develop during the pregnancy. A general break up of
this is as follows:
• The proportion of the weight of the baby
itself to the entire weight gain hovers around 8 pounds.
• 2 to 3 pounds of the weight qualify as
the placenta’s proportion.
• The Amniotic fluid adds around 2 to 3
pounds more to the entire weight.
• The extra breast tissue that develops
(necessary for breast feeding) comprises of yet another 2 to 3 pounds of the
total weight.
• The blood that is stored for the
pregnancy amounts to about 4 pounds of the total weight gain.
• The extra fat that is stored for the
delivery of the baby and breast feeding adds around 5 to 9 pounds to the total
weight.
• The uterus increases in weight from 2 to
5 pounds
The
above is a general break up of what the mother’s entire weight gain comprises
of, but the important thing is the weight of the mother before the pregnancy.
If
a mother-to-be is underweight then she needs to gain 28 to 40 pounds
altogether, and if the mother-to-be is overweight, she only needs to gain
around 11 pounds.
You
can watch this Video HERE and this Video TOO about
topics on pregnancy weight gain.
By Alicia Pennington, author of Trim
Pregnancy – a newborn weight program
that is designed to be suitable for pregnant women who want to get the body of
their dreams. This program guides women gradually through the process of
discovering a secret method to keep their body sexy and make it look better
than ever before while maintaining a healthy pregnancy. To find out more, Click HERE
