OUCH SheLion - I put on about 55 pounds when I was pregnant - can you picture me weighing in at 170????
A week later I was down at 130 and by the time I went for my 6 week check-up I was back at my fighting weight of 115 - and lest anyone else forget - I'm 5 foot 10!!!!!
But all kidding aside........there are a myriad of health dangers for everyone, including pregnant women, that never BOTHERED anyone a generation or two ago. Our grandmothers that drank alcohol, smoked and ate beef while pregnant gave birth to our healthy parents, who in turn gave birth to us their healthy offspring, who have now given birth to our own healthy offspring.
I'm actually starting to wonder if these health freaks aren't actually creating a generation of sickly kids right on their own. It sure seems the generations of kids of smokers and drinkers are doing very well.
Gabz! My Mom smoked, and I weighed "10 pounds" at birth!
My daughter weighed 8.12 pounds at birth!
Gabz, I want to know where these wimpy men come from today. Sure aren't the men that WE grew up with! The anti's in here are all wusses. ack!
Wonder no more, kids are more sickly today, reason being, they are over protected from all kinds of normal living.