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Skinny Mom: Baby-weight Loss

Posted by Posthipchick
I am so sick of hearing people talk shit about how fat women get during pregnancy or after having kids.  While it's quite obvious that every woman is going to gain weight during pregnancy (Hello?  You have another person in there with you), many women lose all their pregnancy weight in the months following childbirth. Especially, ahem, if they breastfeed.

I gained 40 lbs. during my pregnancy, 10 lbs. more than the doctors "recommend" for a healthy pregnancy.  Whatever.  After I got over puking every five minutes, I was ready to eat whatever was set in front of me.  And while breastfeeding?  I honestly eat twice as much as I did before I got pregnant.  And I currently weigh five pounds less than I did when I got pregnant.  While I realize that plenty of women gain weight during pregnancy that they struggle to take off, I don't think this is always the norm.  In fact, I would say that the majority of my mom friends weigh the same or less than they did when they first got pregnant.

All the people who talk the online shit about pregnancy weight gain do so without ever having experienced it.  They just want everyone to get riled up and hit their sites.


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Posted Dec 12 2006, 05:45 PM
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Comments

 

shiriBiri said:

I'm with you on this one - i'm actually 15 lbs. less now, a year after the birth of my second son, than I was before I got pregnant with my first. I think it's due to a. breastfeeding and b.how having kids made my lifestyle so much more active than before (can't really be a couch-potato 5pm-2am like I used to when I have 2 less than 3YOlds to entertain daily.)

December 13, 2006 6:18 AM
 

misswolfe said:

This makes me feel tons better. I, too, have gained 40 pounds (ten pounds over my recommended gain)..and have been dreading what's going to happen afterwards. Yay for you clearing out my already nerve-wracked head.

December 13, 2006 4:12 PM
 

jonelle said:

I, too, gained nearly 40 lbs, and was back to pre-pregnancy-ish size (no scale) by 6 weeks. Breastfeeding and constant walking, rocking, bouncing, singing, etc. will do the trick.

December 15, 2006 10:33 AM

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