Do you know women who have done this? Have you ever been pregnant? I ask because your remarks don’t reflect what I encountered in my work. I’ve worked in a medical environment and have had contact with many, many pregnant women and with their doctors. I’ve also examined the medical records of thousands of pregnant women. I’m a mother myself with a number of pregnancies. And I never heard or saw or read about a woman who said, “I have to keep my weight down so I’ll look like Jennifer Anniston.” What I do hear them saying is, “I know I shouldn’t gain 75 pounds but I’m crazed with hunger, and if I don’t eat I get low blood sugar. Put an ox on the kitchen table and I’ll eat it all by myself.”
Sometimes women also don’t gain enough weight not because they’re vain or their husbands and doctors pressure them, but because they are so terribly nauseated.
Yep I've had four kids. And I gained at least 40 pounds with each pregnancy, thank you very much! (And lost ... well ... most of it with each post-pregnancy)
Do you know women who have done this?
Yes, two people very close to me (relatives) did. Once their children were born, they also insisted on giving them skim milk to drink -- another terrible mistake, since human childrens' brains need a higher fat content to develop properly, than is available from skimmed cow's milk.