What's the connection btw a surrogate and having a boy?

the whole "washing the sperm" bit?

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Anonymous wrote:I think they had a surrogate carry the baby. For real.

What on earth would be your basis for believing that.

#1 - how convenient it was a boy

#2 - she had a really fake looking post baby bump like they were trying to fake a postpartum stomach

#3 - I have inside sources

I gained 21 pounds in my second pregnancy. I came home from that c-section with a hanging pooch that has never shrunk and for the first 10 -12 months couldn't suck in my stomach at all. When I tired the usual motion that sucks your tummy in and up nothing happened. My doc said it was normal and not due to anything extreme happening to my muscles. I've never had a waist again no matter what I do.

It's not just small women who can be the same weight, I think anyone who only gains 15-20 pounds loses it very quickly. I was 211 pre-pregnancy (I'm 6', but that is still overweight), 228 before birth, and 208 at DD's 1 week appointment. I was a different shape, but the same size.

All that being said, I do think Kate Middleton has to have some sort of disordered eating and/or overexercise issues to have gotten that thin and stay that way.

Anonymous wrote:I looked just like Kate Middleton after I had my baby. In fact, I am Kate Middleton.

I wore pre-maternity clothes home from the hospital with the first one. The second one? Nope. I was ten years older and a lot less active due to a progressing disability.

I do know a few people though who were back in pre-pregnancy clothes quickly. They work out regularly and did during pregnancy too. Some people get their shape back quickly, some don't.

Also, for those of you who forgot...google things like "Kate Middleton extreme weightloss engagement." Also google photos of Kate from college. She's lovely and IMO she looks healthier, and she was not a waif back then. At one point she supposedly took up smoking to curb her appetite. I know the world wants to think a perfect princess is naturally rail thin, etc, but he weight bounced around A LOT in her youth and that is when our metabolisms are the fastest. Didn't Diana claim to be naturally thin too before she revealed bullimea? I know plenty of women with anorexia who still to this day (post treatment) will relapse and swear they are naturally thin and can't gain weight. Naturally thin people are usually naturally thin in their late teens, 20s etc and she wasn't.

Anonymous wrote:she is genetically blessed. I want to hate her, but I really think she's a cool chick, so I won't

As for why some women don't just bounce back, I can give you my answer - thyroid disease. I didn't have it pre-baby, but it sprung up while I was pregnant and never went back to normal. I am now diagnosed with Hashimoto's, which is extreme hypothyroidism. Lucky for me, I haven't gained massive amounts of weight, but an extra 5-10 lbs for me is HARD to lose.

Not to mention I was never as fit as she is, so my abs got completely effed in the process of having one baby. I'm petite, plus due to a pelvic abnormality, my child couldn't drop and just kept growing straight out. Nothing short of plastic surgery is fixing it, trust me.

I could have written most of this re:Hashis and weight! The thing is when she was in her late teens to early 20s she was not rail thin. She looked good and was normal weight, but probably 20 pounds heavier. I think she works VERY hard to stay so thin. Remember she went on some alarming diet during her engagement. I think years from now we'll find out she had an eating disorder and had to workout several hours a day to look that good. I suspect she restricts too. Hope she doesn't purge.

Anonymous wrote:I looked just like Kate Middleton after I had my baby. In fact, I am Kate Middleton.

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Anonymous wrote:I was 116 pounds before pregnancy (5'6"). 132 before delivery, and 116 the day after I delivered.

Oh, do shut up, you and all the other braggarts.

We're not bragging, we're just sharing our experiences to explain that not all people have trouble losing baby weight. A celebrity (like Kate Middleton) need not be a horrible, narcissistic person simply because she lost the weight quickly.

Anonymous wrote:I was 116 pounds before pregnancy (5'6"). 132 before delivery, and 116 the day after I delivered.

Is that healthy?

Anonymous wrote:I was 116 pounds before pregnancy (5'6"). 132 before delivery, and 116 the day after I delivered.

Oh, do shut up, you and all the other braggarts.

Anonymous wrote:Didn't you know? According to DCUM, only the pre-pregnancy obese are the ones who don't "bounce back" quickly. If you don't look like Kate by the time you're off maternity leave, you're just a fatty using your pregnancy as a crutch to continue being fat.

Exactly. I used to be a size 2 pre-pregnancy. Now I'm a size 8. I'm not fat by any means, but my body is different. I work full time and am a mom. I don't get a ton of time to take care of myself. And I'm getting older. And I'm not a narcissist who's obsessed with how I look or what others think of me.

It took me a year to lose the baby weight with #1. 3 months after I had #2 I lost all the baby weight and then some. People couldn't believe it but it does happen. I didn't gain that much weight with #2 and I was much more active so that might of had something to do with it.

Am not trying to be smug, esp. bc this is anonymous, but I lost the baby weight super quickly both times. In fact, breastfeeding makes me lose so much weight that I'm thinner than normal in the first two or three months after my children are born. I'm tall and relatively thin normally, though not nearly as thin as Kate Middleton.

But anyway, the point is that everyone's body behaves differently and she may just be one of the lucky ones (she clearly seems to be lucky in lots of respects).

Anonymous wrote:Women who are thin and fit before pregnancy who then do not gain a ton of weight during pregnancy tend to bounce back pretty quickly. Kate Middleton is an extreme example (preternaturally gorgeous to begins with), as are the Victoria's Secret models who walk the runway 6 weeks after giving birth. Though it would make many of us feel better if it were not the case, there ARE women like this. Why is it so baffling?

+1. And she had Hyperemesis gravidarum and didn't gain much to begin with; just look at her pregnant pics, her legs are the same size.