up to 4months ago i would look at my tummy and swear as i would see it too big and do crazy things to make it smaller ...
Now i look at my tummy and think:
" Are you in there? Are you sure? Why are you not growing?"
(OMG the baby is going to be fat, I am going to be one of those mothers that keep on saying "Mangia, guarda come sei magro MANGIA" oh noessssss)
I do not see any difference, I am not really hungry all the time (as supposedly i should feel) and i am not able to eat for 3 as someone as suggested... so what does one modern woman do when posed with such a conundrum?
Ask the doctor?
Ask he mother?
Ask other women that have been pregnant before????
Of course not ... she turns to the internet;
the harbringer of information that would make even the more conservative of the spanish inquisitors proud, so full of crap and ignorance and hearsay that can turn the common cold into a cancro fulminante or as google translation has kindly translated: "fulminating cancer" (and then they wonder why italian people speak funny english...)
After a couple (of millions) of searches turns out that by week 18 you should be quite big (according to the "experts" possibly sad fat pigs)... and have gained 2.5/3 kg (this acording to uk estimates) or 1 to 2.5 kgs (this according to italian estimates)
(so who is right, why in the uk you can be fatter than in italy... could it be that you guys know diddy squat???)
I used to be 53kg before getting pregnant i am now 55kg so it seems we are on target...(for what a baby turkey or a baby chicken???)
but i promise I still cannot see any difference....
. tell me, do i look pregnant??????
look again if i do not keep the tummy in.....
ooohhh that's a fat cow
i can shout
NO... it's a baby
and the idea, today, makes me strangely giddy......
I'm not an expert - as you know :) - but maybe the UK estimate is based on the fact that the UK population is generally chubbier making the suggested kilo increase unreliable? Considering that here the average women's size is 14 and in Italy is much lower also...
ReplyDeleteDon't worry darling, here in Italy every single doctor has his\her own theory abouth weight gain (and nutrition). A colleague of mine had no tummy until the fifth month and she had a 3.8kg girl, another one ended her pregnancy with 10 kg gained and the doctor used to say she gained too much! ;-)
ReplyDeleteall my friends' pregnancies were different in matter of weight and tummies...all of them have had beautiful and healthy babies :-D
Micino\a will be perfect!!!