Weight gain is not a pleasant thing that happens and in the world that we live in the look is everything. For many young girls and women being thin is their objective in life, nothing counts more then having a skinny silhouette, not even their health. Many women decide to make plastic surgery to look better, instead of eating healthy and do physical exercises to be thin, healthy and to look younger.
The pregnancy automatically implicates gaining weight, more or less depending on your diet, metabolism, your body reaction to the baby, etc. That is why is a good idea to have a pregnancy weight gain chart that will help you to know what is the recommended weight that you should during your nine month pregnancy period.
Is very important for you and for your baby to eat healthy, before and during the pregnancy and while you breastfeed the baby. The healthy diet will assure the vitamins and minerals necessary for the proper development of the baby, your diet should include food rich in protein (meat, fish, eggs), calcium (milk, yogurt), starch (bread, pasta, cereal) and all types of fruits and vegetables for their content of vitamins and minerals.
The specialists say that a well nourished and healthy women gains during the nine moth pregnancy period between 25 and 35 pounds, but the practice has showed that some pregnant women gained between 55 and 88 pounds during their nine months pregnancy period.
Immediately after the birth of the baby the pregnant women usually lose approximately 20 pounds, because of the following:
-7-9 pounds the weight of the baby;
-2 pounds weights the placenta;
-2 pounds weights the amniotic fluid;
-4 pounds weights the increased blood volume;
-2 pounds weights the uterine enlargement;
-4 pounds weights the fluid in the maternal tissue;
-1 pounds weights the breasts enlargement
the remaining pounds gained during the pregnancy period represents the deposit of fat that the body’s deposit necessary for breastfeeding and energy.
The dream of every pregnant woman is to leave from the hospital after the birth with the weight that she had before getting pregnant, but this thing is impossible.
The extra pounds that you will have after the pregnancy are added in 9 months, you should allow you body at least the same time to lose the extra pounds
Use the fallowing pregnancy weight gain chart instructions to monitor your weight gain:
-calculate your weight gained by subtracting the pre natal weight from your current weight;
-writhe the number of weight gained in the “Pounds Gained” column from the side of the cart;
-the next step is to locate the pregnancy week in witch you are pregnant;
-at the intersection of the two put a dot. Uniting the dots week by week you obtain a pregnancy weight gain chart week by week. The lines that units the dots from the chart represent the normal high and low range for pregnancy weight gain.
A physical exercise program will help you be healthy during the pregnancy, to have energy, to maintain a normal pregnancy weight and will help you to have easy labor. Before starting a physical exercise program consult your heat care provider and ask him advices about what type of physical are safe to do during pregnancy.
If you are active during the pregnancy period, if you eat healthy and if you drink plenty of water then you will get back to your shape that you had before the pregnancy in no time. A healthy lifestyle bedore, during and after pregnancy will assure a healthy life for your baby, also.