Re: Cord length

[Guest guest]

Hi guys

I love this pregnancy chat. I am still in awe that we all have similar

stories!!

But to put it in some perspective, I am 5'10 " (probably a little taller

but I

stop counting there!!LOL) and when I was pregnant with my daughter in

1989 I

weighed close to 200 lbs (I know yuck!!). I lost a lot after she was

born (a

year AFTER she was born I weighed the same as I did at 9 months

pregnant! That

was an eye opener and immediately went on a diet). So I was down to 170

when I

got pregnant with Adam in 1992. (Adam is RSS; my daughter is not--but at

11 is

almost as tall as I am now!!!). Both times I gained very little weight

in the

pregnancies and hardly showed. In fact when I was hospitalized during

Adam's

pregnancy for bleeding and confined to a bed, I got a wheel chair to go

outside

one day (it was August--nice weather) and an orderly verbally attacked

me for

having the wheel chair. I explained I was 8 months pregnant and confined

to the

chair and he took one look at me and said " Out lady--nice try--you are

not

pregnant " --so that's how much I SHOWED!! But I would have had the same

with my

daughter--I didn't balloon out until the 9th month both times. It had

more to

do with my height and weight than the kids themselves. Colette was a

healthy 7

lbs 11oz at birth; and Adam 5lb 3oz. During both pregnancies I had my

due dates

changed around constantly after the kids being measured.

So I share that because you all seem to have had these problems (head

aches??)

and resulted in an RSS child. But I had those same issues with both

pregnancies

and considered it normal for my body! (OH just to finish off--after the

divorce

business and all that stress I weighed 145 lbs--man--people who hadn't

seen me

in a few years refused to acknowledge me as the same person--hey

something good

about divorce!!!!!)

LOL

Debby