The hardened abdomen protects the coconut crab and reduces water loss on land, but has to be moulted periodically. Adults moult annually, and dig a burrow up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long in which to hide while vulnerable. It remains in the burrow for 3 to 16 weeks, depending on the size of the animal.
Jolessa â¢ (levonorgestrel/ethinyl estradiol) is a prescription birth control pill. Despite common knowledge, weight gain is probably not a side effect of Jolessa or most other birth control pills.
There are no official UK guidelines for how much weight you should gain over your pregnancy. There is only general advice that most women put on somewhere between 10kg and 12.5kg (22lb to 28lb) (NHS 2011) . You'll gain most of the weight after 20 weeks (NHS 2011) .y the end of your pregnancy, you may weigh about 12.5kg (27.6lb) more than you did before you were pregnant (Murray and Hassall 2014:166) . This varies from person to person, so check out our pregnancy weight gain estimator to get a more personal figure based on your own height and pre-pregnancy weight.