Guest123,
Actually i was quite upset when your hubby ask u not to eat too much cos he don't want you to get fat. i told hubby about this and i did some reading. He told me to tell ur hubby cannot say such things to their pregnant wives.
reasons:
1. wive give u baby need a lot of courage and make a lot of sacrifices like job advancement cos of discrimination, body changes, suffer uncomforts and pain especially during labour
2. he say when wife get pregnant, actually they are " yi jiao ta jing guan chai" literaly means one leg step into coffin cos touchwood anything happen in labour, wife may die. since your wife risking her life to give you baby, so cannot make such shallow and ungrateful remarks.
Scientifically, i extract the following from my encyclopedia:
If a mother does not eat enough calories to nourish her developing baby, some of the shortfall is supplied by breaking down the sores of fat in her body. This process produces chemicals called ketones and, if too many of these cross the placenta they can damage the developing baby, possibly causing mental retardation.
i will try to scan this and send you to pass to him to read, let me know
so tell him all these, let him think if he wants to risk his baby's mental health or not.
hope this helps you. sorry if i am being harsh, but i really think men shouldn't be saying stuff like this to their wives, whether they are pregnant or not. in my personal opinion, he should love me for what i am not to fulfill what he wants.
To be slim or not, its my personal choice not his and not to please him. call me a feminist but this is me.