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With Jasper, Louise also feels that she had said a mythical, ‘Sod it!’ once she found she was pregnant. She let go of her discipline around food. Her portions became massive (definitely ‘eating for two’), but as luck would have it, because she was training to be a nutritional therapist, at least her double portions were healthy ones—but too much of a good thing isn’t necessarily wonderful. Healthy food is great, healthy food is even great in big portions, but watch the mega giant portions!

This time Louise has wised up to that. Yes, you may feel hungrier; yes, your body is changing and has different needs but it is the quality of the food that is vital, not necessarily the amount. In fact, you only need 200 extra calories in the last three months of your pregnancy. The newly pregnant, ‘let’s push the “go nuts” button and think about stuffing-the-whole-thing-back-in-the-box of carefulness after a couple of months’ attitude is really difficult to overcome once you have had 500 cream buns. Not impossible, but more difficult. Of course, we all have our moments, but once the moment becomes the whole time—well, who are you trying to kid?

Remembering that you are pregnant and not fat is the key. If you are putting on weight, you think, ‘Well, who cares anyway?’ But this ain’t so. Repeat after me, ‘I am pregnant and not fat.’ In this way, you can really re-educate the way you think about your body—Louise has learnt to really love her pregnant alter ego this time. She feels sexier and more womanly, with curves in all the right places.

Ask any bloke—most men love pregnant women and curvy women; they look, well, they look like women should. Most blokes also hate our obsession with food and being thin. For most men, trying to be thin doesn’t even begin to cross the screen of what’s important in life, which is why blokes are running the world. They are not using up all that valuable headspace worrying about the size of their butts.

We owe it to our children, therefore, to stop obsessing about our hip and waist measurements and start thinking instead about far more important things—like, for example, how we could do a darned sight better job of running the planet if we were in charge.