How long did it take you to get to your pre pregnancy weight?

[Migraineroundthebend]

I'm not there yet....almost... so far 13 months and counting! I did get pretty huge though.

Days for majority. 2 month later was lower and couldn’t stop loosing weight.

weighed 50kg, gained 20kg (3 stones). Ds was 4kg alone, and the day after 12kg lost so 12kg of baby related key weight.
Breastfeeding and baby that only slept walking around.

8 years and counting! But I was very slim and am still a healthy weight now just heavier than pre kids and likely always will be.

With DD it took me about 18 month to lose the baby weight. I was slim and fit before having DD but piled on 4 stone when pregnant.

With DS I’m still trying to lose the baby weight and he has just turned 2! I piled on 4 stone again due to horrific morning sickness that could only be cured by eating lots of carbs. I then piled on an extra 2 stone of corona kilos during the various lockdowns! I’ve lost the corona kilos now and I’m working on loosing the baby weight.

I didn't have any scales when pregnant, so I couldn't say about my weight, but I was back in my pre-pregnancy jeans after three weeks - sorry, not what you wanted to hear.

I couldn't eat much when pregnant because my baby took up too much stomach space, so I didn't put much weight on. Breastfeeding a baby who cluster fed every evening helped a lot, as did living on a steep hill and owning a heavy pram. I must have used a lot of calories pushing the pram up the hill.

6-10 months. By year 1 I was 2 kg less 🤷🏻‍♀️ for all 3!!!!! Been dropping weight, it's great 😁

Same here!

Excellently put. 👏

I'm so sorry you experienced this OP. 💐

DD1 I gained about two stone and it took me about a year to lose it, breastfeeding made me incredibly hungry and my eating habits were erratic so it took a while.

DD2 I had gestational diabetes and I’d gained weight in lockdown so I was 76kg at my booking in appointment. Eating low carb and exercising daily through my pregnancy meant I was 70kg by 4 weeks postpartum!

my body shape has changed though, two EMCS means that my stomach’s quite different and I’m still working on regaining fitness. I’d like to lose another 5kg but I’m not in a rush so I’m just focusing on plenty of veg and trying to keep the sugar low. Low carb clearly really agreed with my body but it’s not the easiest for me to maintain in the long term.

About 3-4 weeks. I went way under in fact. DS didn’t sleep unless he was in the sling so I was doing thousands of steps with a weight attached. 2 years PP and I’ve put on a bit of weight now and feel much better for it.

Two years. Breast feeding and sleep deprivation made the fat cling to me.

I put on 2.5 stone. I lost 1.5 stone with zero effort in the weeks following the birth - I assume it was mostly baby, placenta and addition blood and fluid. The final stone just would not shift. I've always lost weight when I needed to by calorie counting but any calorie deficit when breastfeeding made my supply drop to almost nothing (I was expressing so this was very obvious). Then after I stopped expressing I was already back at work full time with a non-sleeping baby. I just couldn't shift the weight. Once she started sleeping through the last stone came off.

My last baby was 10lbs 13oz...........38 years ago and I'm fatter now than I've ever been - but I don't bloody care

Another one for whom breastfeeding did diddly squart. Bf dc1 for 2 years, dc2 for 18mo and am only now losing weight by restricting calories while bf dc3. The brief periods where I stopped bfing and before I fell pregnant again, the weight started dropping off no problem. I think it makes me hold onto fat instead of burn it (typical).

@PathObstacles I have seen many a pregnant woman justify unhealthy binges. And definitely not due to mental health or medical problems. There's the whole "eat for two" situation still going on even though it has been beyond debunked.

If there is one time in their lives women should try their best to be careful with what they eat is exactly their pregnancy.

My daughter is 11(years not months!) and still not shifted...

About 2 weeks for all 3 of them.

I haven't, and don't intend to. My eldest is nearly 10. My BMI was 19 when I got pregnant with him and I don't intend to get that thin again as I'm a grown ass woman with 3 kids. BMI now 21/22 and I'm much healthier looking, this obsession with a pre baby body is vile.

2-3 weeks with all mine. I went from 7 stone to 10 stone with each pregnancy, but I think a lot of it was fluid, as my legs were so swollen that I used to think they were going to burst. But my shape definitely changed slightly post-pregnancy although I still weigh the same as pre-pregnancy.

23 years and counting 😂

I was very slim pre-kids, but I gained an enormous amount of weight with DC1 (4 stone) and I lost it very slowly. It took about 18 months for me to get back into my old clothes. Didnt gain as much with DC2 (2 stone), but it was well over a year before I could get back in my jeans.

To be fair, I had c-sections with both, didn't diet or do any particular exercise post-birth, and I only breastfed each child for a very short time (about 6 weeks). So it makes sense I didn't lose weight quickly.

My body changed permanently post-DC as well - wider hips and a bum and breasts I didn't have before. I struggled a bit with that at the time (late 20s), as I'd always been tall and willowy, but at 45 I like how I look. I'm the slimmest I've been since pre-kids, but I have curves I didn't have then. Gotta take the wins where you can!

Around 18 months

A week or two,went straight back into my normal clothes

** posted to quickly! Then went on medication and I've put on loads.

And the majority of those women who are 'justifying unhealthy binges', as you put it, absolutely ARE doing their best to eat healthily during their pregnancy, and other times. But they are doing it in the context of everything else that is going on in their lives as well.

What to eat and when and how much of it is almost never an isolated, simple, free choice. It is affected by income, free time, stress, health issues and limitations, pressures from people they live with or work with or care for, their lifetime emotional relationship with food and eating - the list goes on.

Just like, every day, people choose the lift instead of the stairs (for all sorts of reasons), grab a ready meal instead of cooking from scratch, have to choose between heating their house instead of eating fresh food, or choose to buy something 'unnecessary' that gives them a little lift in spirits rather than buying something 'worthwhile' or donating the money to charity.

Noone is having the same day as you. Noone is having the same life as you. If you find it straightforward to live within the 'ideal' parameters of vegetable intakes and BMI that's great for you. It's not straightforward for lots of other people. There is no moral failing in that.

Really good post @PathObstacles