To think that a woman who still has pregnancy weight 8 weeks after having a baby is normal?

I got back into my normal clothes after 5 weeks which am rather proud of as have been stuffing myself to the point of popping to keep bf. I do have the most unattractive and rather large layer of flab which luckily is pretty flexible and can hang over my trousers/skirts Its my under arm bits that bother me - I need to do press ups not diet! And my tits are huge - as my sister so kindly pointed out

Am starting running after my 6 week check and hope to tone up but have no plans to diet whatsoever.

Hello buckets

Everyone's different. I lost 2stone of excess weight while pg so I was superslim post baby. 10wks of vomiting is a high price to pay. But...
It's the single, childless journalists who write bitchy articles - Mel B still looked fab and is having a hard enough time without spiteful, ignorant people making up rules of thumb about things which they know nothing about. They'll get theirs but not until they've brainwashed our daughters with their nonsense.

You're going to hate me. DS1 was 2 weeks early and I was back in my size 10 jeans on his due date.. at my 6-week check after having ds1 I was sent for thyroid tests cos I'd lost all my baby weight plus half another half a stone...really wasn't deliberate, just fell off me. Same thing happened with ds2 but took about 3-4 months. I normally put on weight at the drop of a hat, so have no explanation whatsoever. If it's any consolation all my clothes are now too big and DH keeps telling me I look like a sack...

I weighed 49kg (7 1/2 stone-ish? bit more?) pre-pg with ds, put on about 17kg with him, lost 8 or 9 of that almost immediately and oscillated between 56 and 58kg until this pg. Have only put on 3 1/2 kg so far and am 25 weeks. My take on it is that you aren't necessarily meant to weigh the same post- as pre-pg, especially if you didn't weigh much to start with. I'm still bf ds - it really didn't have much of a weightloss effect for me. I haven't actually actively tried to lose the weight, either - I eat pretty healthily and walk a lot - and my weight before this pregnancy was still in the healthy BMI range. I don't mind being rounder and curvier.

Who said that re the face?Who said it?!My face is the size of the moon currently...I am not amused!
It happens to some of us who are unfortunate to suffer with lots of swelling-just genes I guess..but it goes down straight after birth..well it did last time..God what if it doesnt this time?!Honestly I think my face alone currently constitues about 30% of my total body weight!

i lost weight very quickly after having ds2,due to stress,marriage break up etc,i got down to my pre-preg weight in 6 weeks but kept on loosing it after that.i thought it was great at the time but when i see photos from back then i just look skinny and ill

after having dd2,i finally got into my pre-pregnancy jeans when she was 6 months old.then 2 weeks later found out i was pregnant again.

dd3 is 12 weeks tomorrow and ive yet to lose any weight!i do feel under alot of pressure,like when i was pregnant and i kept seeing pictures of pregnant slebs wearing size 6 jeans under their neat little bumps.

i cant believe anybody would put their baby's life at risk for the sake of their figure,though.why do they have babies if staying skinny is so important?

Forgot to add - I put on 4 stone when pregant!

I didn't lose a single pound for 6 months after my son was born. After that it started to fall off, and I was back to a normal-ish weight within a year. It felt exactly the right sort of timescale - I didn't do anything more than gentle exercise and didn't diet at all. My body took its own time to heal and regain its shape, and I'm glad I did it that way. To be honest, I think its worse than depressing that women feel under so much pressure to be slim again after giving birth - I actually think its disgusting and irresponsible that these stupid magazines bang on and on about it. It amounts to woman hating of the worse kind. Grrrrr.

But there is in our culture, isn't there? Perhaps we should move to Tonga or certain parts of the USA.

the thing that really pisses me off is the implication that there is some sort of moral value to loosing the weight quickly. c'mon gals if sleb b can do it that just goes to show that the rest of you are lazy and morally inferior.

Just reading about 9 months of personal training was exhausting enough.

Just read this thread and found I've eaten half a packet of biscuits in the process. Thank goodness it wasn't a really long thread... needless to say the baby weight is staying where it is.

I have no idea how much weight I put on for dd2 but I do know that I had a real sweet tooth so it must have been a fair bit. After dd1 I did lose the weight quite quickly and was back in shape in 2/3 months. DD2 was a different story though and I knew I'd need help, so 7 weeks after she was born and still feeling very big and uncomfortable I started seeing a persnal trainer twice a week. Now 9 months further forward, it's cost me a pretty packet, but I've lost a stone and a half, have drastically reduced all my measurements, arms, legs, hips and waist, my body fat has reduced by 10% and can easily fit into size 10 clothes and in fact at the ripe age of 37, I'm probably in the best physical shape i've been in in years......

However that said, it still took 9 months of hard work and sensible eating.....

I had lost most of the weight by about ds's 9th month, but actually didn't shift the last 5-10 pounds until after that when I stopped bfing - I was SOO hungry the whole time I bfed and didn't feel I could safely diet.

Having said that, we try to eat reasonably healthily, so I did lose the weight without a "diet".

I suppose it would be POSSIBLE for a person to lose it more quickly if you are willing to suffer serious hunger pangs and put your health at risk.

I think it's the new post baby weight which is the hardest. I tended to eat better in pregnancy, no baby to look after, able to sleep, wanting the baby to be healthy but once it/they were here then you're exhausted and can eat much worse.

I was watching that programme on Living TV about model mums a while ago and the doctor was advising the model to be induced 2 weeks early because her baby was so big - apparently it was going to be - wait for it - over 8 lb!

I thnk Xenia has a point. Although I lost the baby weight within the first 8 weeks, I still had a heck of a way to go with the pre-baby weight, and only managed to start shifting it when DS began to sleep longer at about 11 months. And THEN I went and got pregnant. Please God send me a sleeper this time...

My mum came out of hospital in tiny 1970's jeans (size 8ish apparently) after having me and my brother. I have not been so blessed despite previously being thin and able to eat everything.

But fear not, Posh has brought out a diet book.

sorry, also not gloating, am now sad to be bigger size 10 (even though its still slim) and not stuff myself with big Macs all day!! i worked out that when bfeeding i consumed around 3800 calories in one day!

obviously have weird genes.

Not saying it isn't Motherinferior and i suppose it may look like we're 'gloating' but can be a different side to it, sorry didn't mean to offend

I found part of the problem was the exhaustion of having babies makes you want to eat badly. I remember eating chocolate coins at Christmas during the 3am feeds. I went from about 9 to 12 stone with the twins and that wasn't all baby as they only just weighed a stone together.

errrrrrwell, believe me, it's equally depressing if you're still hugely fat.

lol yup me too tits have gone and waist has got bigger - unless you didn't guess i'm no longer bf (now actually on diet instead!)

i would love to be a wetnurse, or be permanantly breastfeeding, stuff myself all day long with choc cake and big Macs (which i did!) and still be a size 6-8!! i even used to be proud i looked like a page 3 model, with v skinny body and out-of-proportion enormous tits!!

I know AGBU even people who new me said it and they criticised me for not eating when i was, which was quite hurtful at the time with my hormones etc the way they were so i stayed indoors quite a lot