WHEN Michelle Brown prepared to give birth to her first son River-Forest, she was the largest she had ever been at 19st and a size 26. Doctors had warned throughout her pregnancy that, at 5ft 6in a…
“I lost weight for a bit in my twenties but then piled it on. By the time I got pregnant, I was a size 18.Michelle was size 26 and 19st when she gave birth to River-Forest“I wasn’t ‘eating for two’ exactly but I struggled to do as much exercise as usual.“I was told I was at higher risk of losing my baby, of my baby suffering birth defects, and that I’d get diabetes, suffer back or heart problems and pre-eclampsia.“You name it, I was warned about it. It was traumatic to hear.
“After the birth, the weight just fell off me and I went down to a size 12 in a few months without really cutting calories,” Michelle says. “I wasn’t breastfeeding but I was busy running around after a newborn.“I do understand there are risks associated with giving birth when overweight but rather than anyone offering me help, I was just given all the bad news when there was nothing I could do. It made me very scared.
“Sometimes we have a queue of women waiting to go into theatre, and all the time with their blood pressure going up and their babies’ heart rates going through the roof or slowing down. It’s not safe."But sometimes it takes our attention away from other women who need us."All of them had high blood pressure, which is very worrying.”
“Every time I saw a doctor I was given the ‘weight talk’ but that caused me stress. They didn’t need to rub it in. “I know the complications were due to my size and that my weight put me and the baby at risk,” Jazz admits."Rather than helping us cope with complications, we are made to feel bad.”
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