I am just wondering if there's a correlation between the amount of weight gained during pregnancy and your LO's birth weight? Did any of you gain little weight but still have a big baby? Or maybe you gained a lot of weight but still had a small baby? How much weight did you gain and how much did your LO weigh?
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I gained a lot of weight and had a large baby (I retained a TON of water weight though). I gained ~50lbs, baby was 10lbs8oz.
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I would say I gained an average amount of weight and had an average sized baby, lol--gained 32lbs, LO was 7lbs11oz
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I gained a ton of weight (60 lbs-approx. 45% of my body weight!) and had a small-ish baby (6lbs 14oz). FWIW, I also did not get any stretch marks.
ETA: Like @Zippylef, I had a lot of water weight (I had pitted edema from the knees down).
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I gained 23. Five of those arrived over Christmas and New Years. Baby girl was a bit over 10 pounds.
I'm 9 weeks pp and am 9 lbs below pre preg weight.ETA: tons of stretch marks and I carried huge.
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I gained a ton of weight, 38 lbs. No stretch marks and I actually carried really small. I think I just got thick everywhere. OB told me to expect a 7 oz avg baby. (I'm 5'7" and usually weigh 128, weighed 136 prebfp). DS was 8 lbs 11 oz.
I'm 15 weeks pp and have 14 lbs of the 38 to lose!
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I gained a lot and LO weighed above avg: 42 lb for me. 8 lb 8 oz for him. I tried to control my weight with exercise and eating well, but, alas, the weight came on.
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I gained 19 lbs total (a gross of 4 after I lost 15 in the first trimester) and my baby was 8lb 12oz. Minimal stretch marks.
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@mrsjyw: Sounds a lot like me . . . pre-bfp I was 5'7 and 135. I also carried fairly small belly wise, but my legs were "thick." (My *wedding weight* was 128!)
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My mom gained 45lb with me and i weighed 6 lb 4 oz.
I'm up about 50 right now and am on track for a 7.5-8 lb baby, provided the u/s isn't too terribly off. My stomach is measuring a couple weeks behind
While my mom says she chunked up and had a double chin and got very fat, most of mine seems to be swelling because I'm not getting rolls necessarily. I've had the pitting edema since week 25 and my skin looks like memory foam if you touch it. It's crazy!
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I gained about 33, delivered 40 weeks to the day, had a 7lb10oz baby. I didn't really gain any weight until the last 2.5 months, though! They were all worried about her size (fundal measurement was small) but I just have a long torso I guess. She was short, 18 3/4".
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30 gained 7 11baby.
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@blackbird: Just before I was induced, the u/s tech guesstimated LO weighed 7'11" . . . she was just long.
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I gained 23 lbs, all in my belly and boobs- I had very little swelling. LO was 7 lbs 14 oz, and that was 10 days early.
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I gained 18 lbs. LO was a week late and was 7 lb 4 oz and 21" long.
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@mslipgloss, DH and I are both almost 6 feet tall, so I seriously wonder if that's the case for our baby, too! But a 7.5-8 pounder wouldn't be unrealistic for my height, I don't think!
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With DD, I gained 8 pounds; she was 6 lbs, 11 oz. With DS I gained 12 pounds; he was 7 lbs, 6 oz.
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I gained ~18 (strict GD diet) and delivered at 38 weeks. She was 5lbs 8.5oz.
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I gained 40 and LO weighed 9.2
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Gained 20lbs, had 12lbs 14ozs of baby (DS was 7lbs 11ozs, DD was 5lbs 3ozs).
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it did in my case. i gained over 45 with Charlie and he was 8 lbs 6oz, which the doctors said was big for someone my size.
I gained 22 lbs with Olive and she was 4 lbs 15oz (born 5 weeks early). But even if she had gone full-term, she would have been smaller than Charlie.
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@mrsjyw: I think I carried similar to you. Even though I gained 40 lbs I didn't really look huge and no stretch marks !
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I gained 50lbs and she was normal sized - 7lbs 3oz.
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I carried small and lost all my weight naturally by 12 weeks.
I gained 30 (average) and had a 7.8lb baby (average).
I could have gained way less but It was summer and I felt like a hot, cow and just felt icky. My son was also 4 days late so he could have been smaller too. -
@coacheswife123: we did!
now the stickler is getting the poundage off, even though i fit into my prepreg jeans, etc. this pooch needs to go! 
@MsLipGloss: my wedding weight was 128 too
that's my happy weight... my zexy mama weight is 125, but i know that's pushing it. i'll be happy with 130 at the end of it all -
@mrsjyw: ugh I don't ! I am 7 weeks pp and have about 12 lbs to lose! But I started running again yesterday so hopefully that will help! I feel skinny but my belly is VERY squishy !
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50 lbs gained, 7#10oz baby. I had pre e though, and a tonnnn of swelling/water weight
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I gained 33lbs and LO was 8 lbs, 1 ounce.
I am up 13-14 lbs and Baby 2 is due in 6 weeks...I wonder how big she will be!
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I gained 35 lbs and baby was 7 lbs, 8 oz. i was also 1 week late. I think that if i had her a few weeks earlier i wouldn't have gained much weight and not had such horrible stretch marks!
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I gained around 30 and H was a touch on the small side at 6lbs9oz
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I gained 34 pounds and baby was 8 lbs 6 ounces
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I don't think there is a correlation. I gained 26 lbs and baby was 7.13.
My BFF gained 50 lbs and her baby was 6.5. -
My mom gained 20 with me and I was 6lbs 4 ounces and I was 8 days late. She gained 18 with my siblings and they were just under 7 and just over 7.
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I gained 18 pounds and LO was 6lbs 9oz
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I gained 37 lbs and my baby was 7 lbs 10 oz.
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gained just under 40lbs and baby was 7 lbs 13 oz.
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I gained 38lbs with DD and she was 8lb 1oz, which was bigger than we had anticipated. I gained everywhere though, not just my belly. My arms, butt, thighs, and calves. I didn't realize it at the time but basically my Hunter boots were tight at my calves and now, I have a few inches to spare in that area. Yah..... =X
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I gained 45lbs and my baby weighed 6lbs 9oz
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i gained 28 lbs and LO weighed 6lb 7oz
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I gained 25 lbs and LO weighed in at 6 lbs, 13 oz. I also had gestational diabetes, so I was really concerned about watching my sugars.
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