Annoyed!!! Skinny pregnant!?!?

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Just need to rant!!! Is anyone else super annoyed by all of the pressure to be "skinny pregnant"? As if it's not hard enough when you're not carrying a child!? Ugh ugh ugh ugggggh. 😣😣😣 and of course all I've been craving is banana pudding and rice crispy treats!!! It's about to be a baking frenzy in my house because I'm about to cave in!

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I hear ya! Im a plus size mommy to be and I read online that a women my size should only gain 10 pounds the entire pregnancy. I cried. Who comes up with this shit?? I don't see 10 pounds as very realistic. So I just try to eat sensibly, with the occasional ice cream cave, and I'll just really work my butt off after I give birth to the kid. I've stopped weighing myself, because depending on what time of day I weigh myself it could look like I lost weight from the day before or it could look like I gained seven pounds from the day before. I let my doctor weigh me, and she hasn't said anything that makes me think im gaining too much. Growing a human is hard enough without prego body shaming crap I see on the Internet, or hear from strangers.

I bet you look wonderful, hell, I think all pregnant women look like superheros! 😍

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I hear you, I started off small (5'1" and 110lbs) so I feel like I get the pressure both ways. I know a lot of ladies have been posting about people saying their bumps are too small, etc, too. 
On one hand I've got my husbands coworkers telling me I'm small because they made pregnancy a free for all to eat at "every all you can eat buffet in Texas" and gained 65 lbs.  At work for me, people that are finding out I'm 21weeks are saying that I'm "hardly pregnant" because I'm not as big as they were.  Trust me... I didn't normally look like this... *rolls eyes*  Then on the other hand, there are these tall skinny girls that just have a tiny bump with no other weight gain, and I would love to look like that, but my body isn't built that way.  Everybody's pregnancies are different.  People need to just let us be pregnant. There's enough things to worry about and gaining weight, enough weight, or too much weight, does not need to be on that list!

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Who cares- forget people- they suck.

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Don't worry about being skinny, just try your best to get lots of nutrients in your diet for baby, even if you're indulging in sweet treats too.

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I'm annoyed by all the pressure and judgment surrounding women and pregnancy. I'm just trying to do my best and know that the "perfect pregnancy" and the "perfect pregnancy body" don't really exist (the latter maybe among elite athletes but then that has as much to do with genetics, which we can't control, than anything else). I'm eating well with occasional indulgences and getting my exercise despite occasional laziness. So everyone else can eff off! :)

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I've not felt like their is any pressure. If anything there's pressure to see my bump. I'm 23 weeks and barely showing. I just want a nice round bump already and want to look pregnant!

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With this pregnancy (baby#2) I feel there's more "pressure" or eyes on me and how I carry since I got extremely skinny after having my first and everyone would comment on that(couldn't keep weight on and was down around 112lbs im 5'6)

I'm 22wks and up 12lbs already so it's making me nervous

Annoyed!!! Skinny pregnant!?!?

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