Okay, I have an appointment with my midwife here in like 1.5 hours.  I’m actually concerned that I gained maybe up to 4 pounds this month.  Why is this bothering me?  This might sound stupid, but I didn’t want to gain any weight while pregnant because I’m already overweight.  And 4 pounds is totally normal to have gained by 16 weeks, but I’m still wigging out.   I’ve been starving almost continuously for about 3 weeks now so some weight gain is to be expected, I suppose.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not thinking about this from a vanity point of view, but more a safety point of view because I don’t want to complicate delivery or increase my chances of developing gestational diabetes due to weight gain.  I just need to be more careful about food choices, but man when I get hungry taking the time to peel a carrot sounds like an eternity versus opening the cheese and cutting off a hunk.

When I get hungry these days, I have visions of the baby floating around yanking on the umbilical cord with an annoyed look because I’m taking to long to get food down there.

So I’ll know here in a short while if I gained any weight according to the midwife’s scale…