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Its OK to be lazy. After all, when will you have a better excuse for laziness? Pregnancy was my excuse for eating malted milk balls and potato chips, too. Nobody says, "You're going to get fat."

I think that I, still have an old picture, taken when I was pregnant with Richard. I'll see if I can find it. I know that I have "after" pix, too. My ex, sneakily, took one of me, in my underwear but, I destroyed that one!
 

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Here is some photos of me right before I had my daughter, I think I was about 39 weeks along here. I was pretty big, and all that skin did go away!! So take a look Debby, I'm sure you look the same!!

Daniela Pregnant
 

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What great pics Daniela! I bet you couldn't wait until the baby was born though!
 

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Thanks Ady, yeah at that point I was pretty ready to go into labor!!

I actually was larger w/ my son, but I don't have any digital photos of his pregnancy. He weighed 10 lbs when he was born, and I am only 5 feet tall, so you can imagine how "sticking out" I was!!

The pics you saw are of my daughters pregnancy and she was only 7 lbs 10 oz, so I was a little more normal looking! But still quite a site I think!
 

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Daniela, That surely does look familiar! That's what I looked like with my sons, the largest of whom was 7'12". I felt and looked like a cow, and had to get a "tow" to get up off the floor! My first two weighed 6'4" and 6'12", so to me the boys were huge; they popped right out in front, just like you. The girls were spread out more, and somehow I just looked a whole lot smaller. I'm still jealous of Debby, though! By the way, you were a very pretty expectant mom!
 
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Originally posted by Deb25
And we want you to post between contractions that the big day has arrived!
:LOL: I don't think so!!!
I will be doubled over in pain from the sounds of it!! :tounge2:

Daniela!!!!!! I had no idea you were so beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen a picture of you before...nice to put a face with a friend!
I mean that, too...pregnant and all, you looked great!!!!
Oh, and before I forget, Daniela, I would be happy to take you up on the offer to chat on the phone if you want!!
I might be a bit shy at first...lol, but I just get nervous talking to someone for the first time, I'm always afraid they will think I sound like an idiot, or I will say something dumb, or not know what to say...etc...but once you know me, I blab up a storm! I'm definitely not known for being the quiet type...
Oh, and you are right...I look just like that!!! (the belly part that is)
I am only 5' 2 myself, so it sticks WAY out!
I had a lady tell me today I looked like I was having twins. Really made my day...NOT!


And as far as the cleaning thing....I didn't realize this until today, when I ran into a girl I used to work with, and we were talking and she asked me if my house was all cleaned yet...and I was thinking, geez, that's rather rude to ask....do I LOOK like I feel like cleaning my house? But I just said, well, not really...and she then told me how right before labor the nesting instinct comes along, and I will get a burst of energy and feel like cleaning the whole house. Then when I got on here tonight, a few of you had mentioned that. Funny I had never heard that until today.


Thanks everyone for making me feel better, and keeping me company!!! It helps so much to have you all to talk to!
 

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I always thought you get stretch marks while you are pregnant, don't you? I have a big stretch mark on my stomach, but it's because I gained a few pounds
Try Vitamin E to help lighten them.....
 
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Oops...sorry Tigger, I took out that question I asked about the stretch marks, cause I thought it sounded dumb...
But I just didn't know if you get them while you are pregnant, or if they show up after, because I don't see any...maybe I am just real stretchy...:laughing:

I too have some stretch marks on me from being heavier in my teens, mostly on my thighs...just little white lines at the top of my thighs...uck. I lost alot of weight when I was a teenager. I never had any on my stomach though.
 

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Debby,

Actually, I didn't think it was a dumb question at all! Maybe you are one of the lucky ones who won't get them!
I have small stretch marks on my inner thighs, but they have pretty much lightened up. I have those tiny spider veins though
Now, those are annoying looking to me.... and I get annoyed when I look at them :LOL:
 
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I have a few of those tiny spider veins on my legs, too. My friends say you can't hardly see them, but I can! I think it comes with age...guess I better expect more of that since I will be 40 in 3 years.
 

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Debby I am sure you are glowing!! All pregnant women look fabulous I think.


I'll PM you my phone number today and we can chat later if you are up to it.
 

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Debby, I am joining this thread late, normally I am a very active person, at the very end of my pregnancy I felt just the way you do now. For me, it meant I was nesting and the baby was born about four days later.

Daniala, I am about 5 ft 2 in; when my son was born he only weighed 5 lbs 11 oz, and my stomach was absolutely huge. At that time, my OB told me that the largest baby I was physically capable of being pregnant with was 7 lbs. It's amazing that your son weighed 10 lbs at birth.
 

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Yea, my pregnancy w/ him was unbelievable. First off, I was only 19 when we got pg. so I was scared ( just married, living in Germany ). Secondly, I was soooooooo big, that I was terrified to deliver. I was having nightmares, the whole deal.

Anyway, at my 38 week appt, the doc did the ultrasound and said he was over 9 lbs so they wanted me to deliver immediately considering I was a fairly small person ( at the time I was 5 feet tall and weighed prepregnancy about 110 lbs ). So they did a csection the next morning, and low and behold he was 9 lbs 15 oz and 2 weeks early! It was truly amazing, he looked like he was 2 months old at birth!! The doc said he knew he was going to big based on the ultrasounds.

My daughters was much more normal. I was older and wiser, I was 25 when I had her. I had read normally your second child is larger, so I was really scared. But they monitored me closely, and around 37 weeks they were estimating her at 7/8 lbs so they let me carry to term. She was 7 lbs 10 oz, and I had her about 6 days before my due date. I felt a lot smaller w/ her, even though looking at the pics I was pretty big.

I'm done having babies now.
 

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Daniella, that sounds like my pregnancies. I'm 5'6 1/2" and big-boned. Pre-pregnancy weight 135#.

The doctor said my first one would be about 8#. Richard weighed in at 10# 1oz. I was able to deliver, naturally. Never thought I'd be grateful for these broad hips! I was 17 and breezed through it.

Three years later, Mark weighed in a 7# 6oz. Don't know what happened, there. Usually, in my family, each subsequent baby is bigger. He WAS a lot easier to deliver, though.

My main concern was twins. MY mother is a twin and all four of us are singles. Sometimes these things skip a generation and we know WHO it would have hit.

That was it! I hit my two-kid limit and forced Mark to be the baby of the family. I HAD to quit having babies - it was too easy and God knows how many I'd have, by now!
 

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Found some pix. The first one was taken at my baby shower (8 mos). The second was 12 days postpartum.
 

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Great pics!! I bet you are greatful you didn't have twins!!
 
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Originally posted by dtolle
Debby I am sure you are glowing!! All pregnant women look fabulous I think.

Actually, everyone who sees me lately tells me how terrible I look. They all say I look miserable. Alot of it is the lack of sleep, I think. Last night I tossed and turned all night, and finally got to sleep at 7:00 this morning, then was up again at 11:30. I need to clean out the closet in the babies room and the rest of the drawers in her dresser today, and I just don't have the energy. I thought if maybe I got online for awhile first, I would perk up a little. So I will be starting on that stuff here soon.

Cindy...I love the pictures!!!
 

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Debbie, I'm sure your friends mean well, but I don't think anyone should tell you that you look terrible! When I'm not quite up to par I feel better when someone tells me I'm looking better. So--take a shower, put on a cute shorts outfit, some makeup and jewelry and know that pregnant is beautiful!
 

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Debby, I can't think of a better time for you to get your new scanner out of its box and hook it up to your computer.
(hint hint)

You will be sooooooo proud of your brand-new daughter, (you'll feel much better after she's born) and we will really enjoy looking at some nice pictures of her!!!
 
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