Hmm, I didn't experience that when I was pregnant with .Aly. But it sounds like circulation problems? I'm not sure if your body is trying to adjust to the weather, or maybe the blood volume in your system, or... Lord, I have no idea.


I'm no help.

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.I'm loving the hoodie avatar! You look so cute!

And your bump is awesome

It sounds like bad circulation. You do right going to see your dr about it

p.S your bump is so cute!

Well wednesday is just my normal check up.

Oh another question. When is it safe to fly until? I'm going to be making a trip.

Most airlines permit pregnant women to fly until the end of the 35th week of pregnancy, whereupon expectant mothers are strictly advised not to fly.

I would think it would be safe to fly up until your last few weeks. So maybe up to 36 weeks or so? But the airline might need a doctor's note saying it's safe before they permit it. It wouldn't surprise me. You might want to call and see.

uuggghh i'm glad you mention I might need a note cause I would have been very likely to end up at the airport without one. I'll definiatly get one from my dr on wednesday too.

Thanks both of you

Anytime honey. More belly pics, more belly pics!

i took a whole bunch of me standing up by setting the timer on my camera but I seriously could hardly bare to look at them. I look like such a cow and my face has gotten all icccky and fatty. I don't like what I look like pregnant .A.T. A.L.L! *barf* top pictures I can handle but when I look at me from the side I think "i know there's a baby growing in my belly but what the hell is growing in my ass".

Lmao! You're funny. I'm sure you look fine and you're a bootifwull and swexy pwegnat gurl

I was the same way, .Tanya. I gained most of my weight in my booty, and my hips are much wider now. I didn't get any stretch marks on my stomach, but my left hip looks like tiger stripes. And of course my husband keeps bringing my "fuller figure" up like it's a good thing, and he knows damn well I hate my body right now. I won't even be thinking about it and he'll say something like "you fill these jeans out so well!" well thanks, they're four sizes bigger than I used to wear and .I'm dragging this huge ass around, and my hips have bever been so wide...

Lol. I feel the same as you. I was carrying round an extra half a stone after angel was born that I just couldn't shift and it really showed on me. I've finally managed to get rid of it now but it sucked cause strangers assumed its from logan and that i've just taken ages to lose it

I weigh around 50 pounds more than I did around last year christmas time. I mean I didn't gain it all because of the pregnancy, but I had lost a lot of weight around that time and I was eating vegan, along with other more desperate things I did to keep my weight low. When I found out I was pregnant and I gave up things I had been doing, a mixture of bulemia and anorexia type behaviors, and right at the very start when I was for the first time in months not starving my body, the weight piled on, and then I started gaining pregnancy weight too. And now cause of gaining so much in such a little time i've got stretch marks, really bad on my belly, plus I started getting them on my thighs, and even under my arms. It's sooo disgusting, I really hate looking at myself. A lot of the early gain was getting me back to a healthy weight, but now i'm seriously huge. It's so depressing cause i'm only 17 and I feel like my body is already ruined. It's going to be hard enough to ever enter another relationship being a single teen mother, without looking like a stretch out sack of cow. Agghhghghg. It's just so depressing to think I might not be able to get back to how I looked before, and I know when i'm a mother I can't go back to doing it the unhealthy way because I don't want that type of negativety around my baby (even if she doesn't understand) because I want her to grow up loving and respecting herself, and you can't teach something you don't live. It's just so depressing, I seriously hateeee my body now. I'm not scared of working hard to get back into shape, but i'm scared that it doesn't work or I can never get back to the way I was before, or i'll have extra skin or something. And it's not like the stretch marks will ever go away. Sorry for the rant!

I think my stretch marks are starting to fade. They're starting to look more lightish pink than the deep maroon color that they were. But it depends on how the light hits them.

On a totally unrelated note, .I'm playing .Gregorian and .Aly is just loving it! (.Gregorian is basically gregorian monks chanting, but they're singing modern-day songs like "nothing else matters", "with or without you", "losing my religion", etc)

yeh I know what you mean there! I used to do the same kind of stuff starve myself and purge. I also stopped when I found out I was pregnant, and I remember feeling a bit worried because everytime I ate, I still felt I needed to purge...Like it had some control over me. But I didnt give in, I didnt do it at all during my pregnancy. So I gained weight quite fast too at the beginning due to being underweight. Ive got stretch marks on my stomach, hips, butt and boobs. My hips are definately wider since pregnancy/giving birth And I feel like my body is already ruined when im only 17. Im worried my boobs are going to be all saggy and horrible once I stop breastfeeding, cos right now im a bra size 38 e! Ugh im scared lol but then you have to think theres a lot of worse stuff than stretch marks...And droopy boobs lol like at least you're healthy you dont have some nasty illness, and you have a beautiful baby. Even though the stretch marks will always be there, you can still look good by losing the weight, getting slim again and wearing nice clothes. Its only when you're naked...But only your partner is going to see you then anyway and he should love you stretch marks and all lol

Oh tanya I know it seems bad at the mo but it will get better and you will find a man who loves you regardless of any stretchmarks.
I am really self concious of my lower belly as I have a couple of stretchmarks there and I know when I get a new man I will be constantly covering up my belly in bed but hey thats just me

Lol just keep the lights off becks, thats lucky you've only got a couple!

I care more about feeling attractive than being in a relationship I guess. It's more of I don't feel I can have a relationship when I can't feel confident, though the confidence (not the relationship) is my actual desire.


Allie, bulemia is definitely an addiction, something that makes you feel in control. Same with anorexia. It feels like an old friend, almost lonely to know i'm never going back to it.

yeh it is, but with the bulimia part, when I was first stopped doing it, for a while I felt like .I.T was controlling me, not the other way around. Like i'd have a meal then feel a huge urge to want to go purge and I couldnt control that feeling. That did scare me. I never did it again during pregnancy, but it took a while to stop feeling like I .M.U.S.T do it you know? Weird...Anyway to be honest I have done it since ive had lucas, but ive stopped completely now. The last few times I got burst blood vessels in my eyes, I felt awful, I looked at lucas and I decided thats it, im never doing it again...I dont wanna hurt myself cos it will hurt him.
Being anorexic can really screw up your digestive system, its not worth it anymore.

Yeah... And food kicks ass.