Re: [at-l] Basic Weights---

When you add the amniotic fluid and placenta, you begin to approach the
pack, food and water (literally and figuratively) in weight and
function. The other amazing thing with pregnancy is that bones and
joints get a whole bunch more wobbly, as the geography shifts for the
big day. Hence the waddling walk and related problems just as the
package and weight gets more difficult to manage. Similar calories are
consumed as pre-pregnancy, but everyone seems to pack on the pounds
more. This is part of my thought that something very vital and basic is
going on for female hikers whereas men tend to progress into
starvation.

Bill....

--- Leslie Booher <lwbooher@halifax.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking today about backpacking weights and pregnancy
> weights.
> My basic items---tent, sleeping bag, Ridge Rest, and stove
> kit---weigh less
> than any of our children did at birth.  Everything, excluding pack,
> food,
> and water, weigh not much more than our youngest child did at birth
> (she
> weighed 10.5 lb).  And I carried all that weight around 24/7 for 9
> months
> (of course, not the same amount of weight the whole time, sort of on
> a
> sliding scale, with the scale going UP---instead of the weight
> getting less
> as I drank water and ate the food, it got way more <G> 

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