Thursday, April 16, 2009
Discrepancy
I have a scale at home and have been watching the numbers spike higher and higher, after many months of staying pretty stable. I am still within my "overall" range of weight gain, but I had gained almost ten pounds in the last several weeks. Not surprising given that my belly has popped out to "fully pregnant" mode, and that I hadn't really gained a lot until this point. But still, I was nervous about going into the doctor and getting lectured about gaining too much too quickly, especially because in my heart of hearts I have to admit that this gain also coincides with the advent of a very powerful sweet tooth. So, imagine my surprise, when I stepped on the scale this afternoon at the doctors' office, to find I had not only NOT gained 10 lbs, I had actually lost a couple pounds since my last visit!!!!! I simply can not believe this, but the nurse swore it was right, and the doctor actually said "whatever you're doing, keep doing it!" She obviously doesn't suspect that what I'm "doing" these days involves a lot of cookies, ice cream, and bagels. Also, is it weird that my doctor seemed happy I was losing weight without asking me about my diet? I know she was referring to a slightly high glucose tolerance test that puts me at risk for growing a "too big" baby, and she did measure my fundus to ensure that the little guy was growing at the right rate, but still...being overweight makes me over-analyze every little thing that comes up involving doctors and weigh-ins...
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My wife thought I was crazy, but I recently bought a "doctors scale" because I was fed up with the crappy little scales they sell at department/bigbox stores.
More recently she was swayed towards my position because her weight at home was almost exactly the same as it is at the doctors. This is unexpectedly important in pregnancy ;)
You'd think this wouldn't be that hard to achieve "weighing consistency", but it is. The stores are inundated with "digital", "stylish", "precise" scales. Before our current scale, we owned three others, and each was worse than the last.
I know of cases where I would weigh myself, eat a huge dinner, and then weigh again...and was told I had lost 5 pounds!!!?! The opposite has also been true...i.e. do something that should cause a decrease in weight, and then the scale would tell me I had gained.
Simply put, we now own a consistent, sane, and accurate scale. Maybe I am just obsessive, but it feels like the world makes more sense now.
PS. The Scale: Health O Meter Physician Balance Beam
i still think it's a little obsessive, but ee's right.
on a further note, pregnancy weight gain is nutty. there's what the book says, and then there's what actually happens...
I recently had a similar situation. I went in for my 12 week check up and when I was weighed the nurse was surprised that I had lost weight. Of course this was normal when I reminded her of my constant morning sickness. But Whitney is right, pregnancy weight is crazy and unpredictable. And your weight loss/gain is, I am sure, within acceptable parameters and the baby gets what it needs even if your not gaining more weight.
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