Both boy and girl moms -- what was your BMI (or ht+wt)?

I'd like to put together a listing of where we all were with our body mass index (BMI) when we conceived the children we already have. Presumably we'd see a trend of the underweight and overweight BMIs matching up to more pink and the moderate ones matching to blue ... I think seeing those numbers might be encouraging to those of us who are changing our lifestyles during our sways and losing or gaining weight.

If you don't know what your BMI was but can include your height and your conception weights for each kiddo, I'll do the math.

List updated through 9:35 a.m. CST, Sept. 24. Items marked with * indicates the individual regarded themselves as being muscular, athletic or toned at the time of that conception.

Boys
Kitty0911 -- 16.5 -- boy
Purplepoet -- 17.2 -- boy
Kitty0911 -- 17.9 -- boy
Rosie85 -- 18 -- boy
Fresas -- 18ish -- 2 boys
Dramabird -- 18.4 -- 2 boys
Rainbowflower -- 18.4 -- boy (swayed for girl)
Genieinabottle1 -- 18.9 -- boy
PeonyPrincess -- 19* -- 2 boys
wilma_five -- 19 -- 5 boys
Mummypink -- 19 -- boy
Genieinabottle1 -- 19.3 -- boy
HopingForPigtails -- 19.3* -- boy
ThroughWithBlue -- 19.6 -- boy
Allegra -- 19/20 -- boy
HopingForPigtails -- 20.1* -- boy
Lobella2 -- 20.2 -- boy
Purplepoet -- 20.4 -- boy
Rainbowflower -- 20.4 -- boy
here_we_go! -- 20.7 -- boy
ThroughWithBlue -- 20.7 -- boy
Nini -- 21 -- boy
here_we_go! -- 21 -- boy
Cravingsalt -- 21.2 -- 2 boys
Navywife620 -- 21.5 -- boy
Emily -- 21.7 -- boy
Emily -- 21.7* -- boy
Mommyduke -- 21.9 -- boy
Mummypink -- 22 -- boy
NCBeachGrl -- 22 -- 2 boys
Rosie85 -- 22* -- boy
Fish2012 -- 22 boy
Mommyduke -- 22.1 -- boy
Navywife620 -- 22.1 -- boy
Mommyduke -- 22.5 -- boy
Mariposa -- 22.5 -- boy
WantALittleBlue -- 22.6 -- boy
Mommyduke -- 22.7 -- boy
Atomic Sagebrush -- 22.7 -- boy
Purplepoet -- 22.7 -- boy
Sweetpea -- 22.9 -- boy
Coocoobananas -- 23* -- boy
suregena -- 23 -- boy
Alice -- 23 -- boy
Atomic Sagebrush -- 23.2* -- boy
Coocoobananas -- 23.4* -- boy
Auroara78 -- 23.5* -- boy
Ribbons -- 24 -- boy
Ribbons -- 24* -- boy
Alice -- 24 -- boy
Fish2012 -- 24* -- boy
Myloves -- 24.4* -- boy
Alice -- 24.5 -- boy
Nini -- 24.6 -- boy
Sweetpea -- 24.7 -- boy
MyGirl -- 25 -- 3 boys
Hobbermittens -- 25.2 -- boy
Zanacal -- 25.2 -- boy
Hotdogz&boyz -- 25.4 -- boy
Auroara78 -- 26.6 -- boy
Foxy -- 26.8 -- 3 boys
Zanacal -- 27.1 -- boy
Nini -- 27.5 -- boy
Myloves -- 27.7 -- boy
Zanacal -- 29.4 -- boy
ELP -- 29.6* -- boy
Butterfly Spirit -- 30.5 -- 2 boys
Hotdogz&boyz -- 33.5 -- boy

Girls
ThreeLittleStars -- 16.5-17 -- 4 girls
Dramabird -- 17.2 -- girl (swayed for girl)
Waffles -- 18 -- girl
Bec -- 18 -- girl
Bec -- 19 -- girl
~Lotus Blossom~ -- 19 -- girl
PeonyPrincess -- 19 -- girl (swayed for girl)
Lobella2 -- 19.5 -- girl
Cinss -- 20 -- girl
Zivic-Bubac -- 20 -- girl
Foxy -- 20.1 -- 3 girls
Zivic-Bubac -- 20.7 -- girl
WantALittleBlue -- 21 -- girl
Lobella2 -- 21.1 -- girl
Zivic-Bubac -- 21.6 -- girl
WantALittleBlue -- 21.8 -- girl
Myloves -- 22 -- girl
Bumblebee -- 22 -- 2 girls
Mommyduke -- 22.3 -- girl
jjc3434 -- 22.3 -- girl (swayed for girl)
Hobbermittens -- 22.7 -- girl
Zanacal -- 23.9 -- girl
Cocos-mum -- 26 -- girl
Nini -- 26.3 -- girl
Hobbermittens -- 26.6 -- girl
Foxy -- 26.8 -- 3 girls
Butterfly Spirit -- 31.5 -- girl (swayed for girl)
Auroara78 -- 32.1 -- girl
Cocos-mum -- 34 -- girl

Current pregnancy (gender TBD)
NCBeachGrl -- 19.8 -- unknown (swayed for girl)
Rosie85 -- 22 -- unknown (swayed for girl)
Purplepoet -- 25.1 -- unknown (swayed for girl)
Hobbermittens -- 28.3 -- unknown (swayed for boy)

I was at exactly the same BMI for both of my boys - 24

I was roughly 22 bmi for all my kids, my weight tends to stick between 56 and 58kgs My lowest was 56kg when I had my first daughter.

21.9 boy #1
22.1 boy #2
22.3 girl
22.5 boy #3
22.7 boy #4

I don't know my BMIs. I am 5'3". My beginning weight was different for each conception.

DD1-- 128lbs

DS--142 lbs

DD2--150 lbs

This pregnancy--160lbs.

Look at me just getting fatter and fatter!!

DS 20.2
DD 21.1
DD2 (this pregnancy) 19.5

Only know my weight/height
1st ds 130 lbs
2nd ds 128
2 ww fx 120
Height is 5'2 and a 1/2!!! That half is VERY important to me;)

This pregnancy - boy 29.6 - short and stumpy:bigsmile: But I was more toned even at this heavier weight, so if you can add a brief two word description to your list about body condition then that might be a great help, say, skinny, lean muscle, overweight flabby (can't think of a better word lol), heavy muscular and so on. My last pregnancy was heavy muscular, but the girl before was overweight flabby:oops:

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Originally Posted by coocoobananas

Height is 5'2 and a 1/2!!! That half is VERY important to me;)

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That is precisely my height, coocoo ... so we literally see eye on eye on the importance of that half inch!! :) Most BMI calculators don't allow for anything but whole inches, so anytime I am determining my BMI, I plug it in for both 5'2" and 5'3" and then average the two. So I'll be certain to do the same for you! :)

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Originally Posted by ELP

This pregnancy - boy 29.6 - short and stumpy:bigsmile: But I was more toned even at this heavier weight, so if you can add a brief two word description to your list about body condition then that might be a great help, say, skinny, lean muscle, overweight flabby (can't think of a better word lol), heavy muscular and so on. My last pregnancy was heavy muscular, but the girl before was overweight flabby:oops:

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ELP, do you happen to remember what your BMI would have been for your previous pregnancies? I'd love to include numbers for both the boy and girl lists. And sure, if people would like to note if they considered themselves to be muscular at the times of conception, that would be great. The BMI gives us a general picture of skinny/normal/overweight, but not of tone.

I was in very good shape like worked out a lot and resistance for first 2 whereas this one I'm skinny and flabby!

I'm 5' 3.5" (I know what you mean about half an inch!!). Athletic body type.

DS1- BMI 20.1 (115 lbs)
DS2 - BMI 19.3 (109 lbs)

My bmi was around 20 when DD was concieved.

I already posted my BMI of 24, but I was soft and gushy for DS1, had just gained the "freshman 15" (18 years at conception) and much more pear-distributed and a little more toned for DS2 (31 years at conception).

Oh and I am 5 4 1/2", I LOVE my 1/2" too :)

LOL im only 5'1 and barely. Pretty small build but I need to loose a few pounds. This is my highest weight ever while ttc. Im 121 and was 116 with my first son.

Well, with ds1: 27.7,
ds2: 24.4
And dd: 22

I was a little more 'toned' with ds2, but with my first I was soft and 'flabby' :oops:. My last I was slimmer.

Not sure about my BMI, but it was defintiely the highest at the conception of my dd as I had gained tons of weight carrying ds2 which I still hadnt lost. I was also the at the unfittest stage of my life, pregnancy was hell as I was so not toned and still flabby from the last pregnancy. This time I was a tiny bit heavier than when conceiving my dd (I now had left over weight from BOTH pregnancies, sigh) but I had used the year inbetween to do lots of toning and am much fitter this time. (I did NOT exercise int he weeks leading up to conception though for swaying reasons, I lost weight while ttcing, 4 kg).

I'm 4'11", and naturally slim

with DS I was 20.4 at conception (101 lbs) this was a very stable weight for me - I was always between 99-102lbs for months and months without doing anything different

this time I was at 18.4 at conception (91 lbs) but not sure what we're having yet

I'll start by saying that I don't remember my exact weight at conception with the boys but I think this is roughly correct:

DS1 - 27.11
DS2 - 29.37
DS3 - 25.18
DD1 - 23.89

With....

1st at 17 - 17.2 =boy but m/c at 6mths
DS1 at 26 - 20.4 = boy
DS2 at 28 - 22.7 = boy
#3 at 30 - 25.1 = ?

I feel fat just looking at this.... going on a 10hr walk everyday until I am a size 5 again!

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Originally Posted by nini

Not sure about my BMI, but it was defintiely the highest at the conception of my dd as I had gained tons of weight carrying ds2 which I still hadnt lost. I was also the at the unfittest stage of my life, pregnancy was hell as I was so not toned and still flabby from the last pregnancy. This time I was a tiny bit heavier than when conceiving my dd (I now had left over weight from BOTH pregnancies, sigh) but I had used the year inbetween to do lots of toning and am much fitter this time. (I did NOT exercise int he weeks leading up to conception though for swaying reasons, I lost weight while ttcing, 4 kg).

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Nini, do you have a decent idea of what your conception weights would have been for each of your pregnancies? If you could tell me that and your height, I can plug it into a BMI calculator to get each of the numbers and include you in the lists.

I was about 25 BMI for all my boys.

I have always had a muscular frame, but I wasn't working out... so muscles with a layer of flab, I guess LOL.

With DS#1 and #2 I had been gaining weight/eating fatty foods. I gained A LOT of weight when PG with DS#2, so I had just lost 20 lbs. when I conceived DS#3... but the weight loss still only put me back at my previous BMI of 25 :)

I am determined to get my current BMI as far below 25 as I can... but I know I will never make it to 19-20 which is where I wish it was for TTC pink. :(

My BMI was around 19-20 with DS. I was quite slim and in a great shape since we just got married and I wanted to fit into my dream wedding gown. I got pregnant in our honeymoon eating very well and enjoying life. =)

Now I ttc a girl and even though I'm not overweight, my BMI is much bigger - around 22-23 now. I feel like I can never go below what I was with my DS so I hope it's the losing weight-trend that counts and not the weight itself LOL.

DD1- BMI 19
DD2- BMI 18

18-ish with both boys.

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Originally Posted by dramabird

Nini, do you have a decent idea of what your conception weights would have been for each of your pregnancies? If you could tell me that and your height, I can plug it into a BMI calculator to get each of the numbers and include you in the lists.

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Roughly, yes, but I never weighed myself properly before conceiving ds2 because I was happy with my shape. I am fairly heavy even when I wore a size 8-10 (UK size).

So when conceiving my ds1, I was young, only 22, I must have weighed like 60kg propably less, like 57kg. With my ds1 I was probably 66kg at conception, but eating loads and all the time (I must have gained weight while ttcing because I tried everything to enhance fertility and ate really well - iddnt know about swaying then ;), with my dd then I must have been like 72 kg (I lost ca. 3 kg durign my sway!). This time I was like 75kg (I was something like 4 kg heavier when I started my sway).

I am 1.66m or 166cm. Sorry, I only do metric, but the converter probably wont mind ha ha....
the main difference was that eventhough my BMI was lower when conceiving my boys, I was eating like a maniac (like I usually do), conceiving my dd I was trying to follow the IG girl diet (although I wasnt properly, but I was loosing weight). This time I lost weight conciously, skipped breakfast etc.

I gained a lot of weight carrying ds2, and so in the 7 months before conceiving my dd, I lost 12 kg in total!!!

Don't know my BMI, but with DD#1, 2 and 3 I weighed 60kg. I'm 173cm. With DD#4, 5 and 6 I was around 80kg. Same with DS#1 2 and 3.

DS1: 19.3
DS2: 18.9,
currently 18.5 (going to TTC a girl in the next couple months)

DS1 19 athletic/toned
DS2 19 athletic/toned
Pg with ? Swayed girl. BMI was still 19, though I weighed slightly less than with the boys. Less toned than before.

DS1 20.7 5'7 around 130-135, I put 132
DS2 19.6 5'7 I was between 120 and 125, I put 125

I am 5 foot 7....

DS1: I weighed 150 lbs, and was working out moderately and lifting weights. I was not really in shape yet, but had a nice body and looked super nice and fit though I wasn't there yet

DS2: I weighed 170 lbs and had just begun to excerise moderately again to shed DS1's baby weight (there is 3 years between their conceptions) and I was snacking a lot, eating a lot of protein etc

Current pregnancy: I weighed 205 lbs, (I know my BMI is considered "obese"), lots of flab, thick flabby thighs, jiggly arms, baby gut, etc) I did NOT work out, had a sit down job, (with my boys I worked retail and was on my feet moving around 8 hrs + a day). I knew there was no way I could excerise crazily, so I purposely tried to move as little as possible, hoping my heavy weight woudl be an advantage to swaying pink, and lack of muscle tone. Was on a mix of IG / LE diet, and lost about 5 lbs. Will found out gender in 3 weeks, and will update the thread for you scientific research :)

Hi ladies! I have updated the listing on page 1 as Auroara and Nini have both gotten their gender results. If you haven't contributed your BMIs (and gender of kids) yet, I'd love to add you to the listing.

What's been interesting to observe so far is that boy moms seem to be spread across the whole spectrum -- BMIs from 17s through upper 20s. Whereas the girl moms (just in this sample size, of course) seem concentrated on the low and high ends (currently, there's only one girl mom with a 23ish BMI and then none until 26ish). So it does seem to support the idea of underweight and overweight leaning pink (although both types are certainly represented on the boy listing, so it's no guarantee).

It would be great to get more data from everyone to keep getting a clear picture.

Thanks for that update Drama! Very interesting!!!

Ok I went back and figured mine:

girl --21.0

Boys - 21.6
22
22.7
23.2 (very muscular)

Well I can tell you this I was in a lot better physical shape when I conceived both my boys. I had more muscle mass and worked out 4 days a week. Now- I do nothing. No exercise ---so I am hoping I the end it gets me my dd!!!!

I was 21 for both my DS and my DD. I was the exact same weight both times I got pregnant. Both of my kids were conceived during the Christmas season, so during a time of indulgence.

DS#1 & 2 I weighed 189
This pregnancy I weigh 195

but ironically lost like 8-10ish lbs when I dropped Coke to sway pink. So I am not sure what way this will go. hehe

With my DD I was boarderline overweight with a BMI of 24.7 I am 5ft4 and at the time was 143lb.

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Dramabird, thanks for updating Nini and I!!

That is the one thing I keep taking away from this website and my research in general that extremes seem to sway well with girl, and moderation better for a boy, of course this is a gross generalization, but it seems that it may be leaning in that direction.