One of my co-workers was talking about his wife’s pregnancy and how she hasn’t had that many cravings, and not for sweets. My other co-worker pipes up “That’s good! I see some of these people gaining so much weight when they’re pregnant and I wanted to ask them, what were you thinking??!”
Um, maybe they had a baby growing in them and they were hungry?
She’s someone who hasn’t had kids, who eats healthfully and loves to exercise and gets outdoors. All of that is great, and I’m glad she enjoys those things and they coincide with keeping her thin and fit.
But if you haven’t been there, how would you know what pregnancy might make you feel like doing? And it’s NUNYA anyway!
Hee, and I wonder what she thinks of me? I’m super-fat and don’t even have a baby to show for it.
Yeah. Some people handle pregnancy really well while other people, like me, are basically clinically depressed the whole time on top of being uncomfortable. I was hanging on by my fingernails–couldn’t summon the will to put in contact lenses, and I sure as hell couldn’t summon the will to go to bed hungry.
Tangentially related to the topic - years back, one of my sister’s coworkers was all excited at the prospect of “test-tube babies” because she could have a baby without losing her figure. Seriously.
We should be thankful when people who think pregnant=fat don’t reproduce. They’re doing the world a favor.
Well, to be fair, I’ve seen a LOT of women who gained literally 80-100 pounds during pregnancy, without any contributing factors like bed rest or gestational diabetes. Medically, that’s not good for mom or baby. That’s the only situation that makes me get concerned. (As explanation, I lived in a place down south that has a very high obesity rate, and a very high rate of diabetes and hypertension, even without pregnancy as a factor. My own cousin is gaining a lot of weight. Like, three months in and she’s gained fifty pounds. But I assume that her OB has blood sugar and BP covered.) And some people are probably harder hit by the hormones and such than others.
But still, I’m not going to get terribly judgy about anyone who’s creating and carrying a human being inside her body. I’m a bit jealous of that, to be honest. So more power to those of you who’ve done it!
