Weight gain II

I have a major revision to yesterday's post about my 30-pound pregnancy weight gain, nearly ten pounds of it in the last four weeks. At my prenatal appointment yesterday, you may recall, the midwife's office scale claimed I weighed 153 pounds.

But my bathroom scale this morning said 143 pounds. That's only a twenty-pound weight gain.

So which number is correct? Why such a big discrepancy?

Part of the problem is being weighed on four different scales -- three different ones for my prenatal visits (first an OB, then the midwife, and yesterday's appointment was at a different office than usual), and then my own scale at home.

Another issue is that I got my baseline pre-pregnancy weight of 123 from my home scale using typical home-weighing techniques -- that is, weighing myself as soon as I wake up in the morning, before eating any food, and while wearing very little. When I'm weighed at a medical provider's office, it's later in the day, and I'm well-fed and fully clothed.

So although according to my home scale I've gained only 20 pounds since I became pregnant, I suspect the accurate number might be slightly higher. But I am completely unsure how much weight I gained over the last four weeks. In the end, it doesn't matter. I eat when I'm hungry, and that's not going to change. Plus the midwife would let me know if she had concerns. I just wanted to provide an addendum to the historical record.

I'll pay more attention to my chart at my next prenatal visit. Maybe I'll even jot down a few notes for accuracy's sake.