to ask how much you weigh now compared to before kids and how old your kids are?

[munkeychops]

basically as the subject says. I still have baby weight to lose and wondering what is hte norm

[NightLark]

I was a skinny little thing when I first left home - 7st 10lbs at 5'6''.
That crept up and just before I was pg with DS (age 34) I weighed around 9st, with an ambition to get back down to 8st 7lb.

HA.

After 3DC and now aged 40 I am stubbornly 10 stone.

DC3 is 13 weeks old and I have started going to keep fit classes, and will start running again ASAP. At 40 I do feel if I don't do something NOW, I'm always going to be moaning on about 'when I was skinny'.

[RockStockIsMovingBackToEngland]

Before I had DD1 18 years ago I weighed about 8¾ stone. After DD2 and DS arrived within 3 years of DD1, I weighed about 8 stone. Went up to about 9-9½ stons depending on everything and nothing over the next 12 years.

Got pregnant just over 3 years ago weighing 9½ stone, when DD3 was born I weighed 9 stone (yes I lost weight through the pregnancy) and still flicker between 9 and 9½. I am now 41, 5'7".

[catus]

Hi! I'm 33, DS is 14 months. Before him, my weight was 48kg (size 6-8) and now I don't know but my size has gone up to 8-10. It's lovely to finally have a bit of curves!

[theginganinja]

Forgot to add, am 39.

[theginganinja]

I was just under 7 1/2 stone before ds but I am short, so that is not as skinny as it sounds. Have had 2 children, ds 18, dd 8, am now 8 stone 3. I am much fitter now though, although I have never dieted, I'm just fairly active, I do eat fairly healthily as I'm terrified of having osteoporosis.

My body has changed quite a lot though (have been going through a premature menopause since dd was born), I never had norks until I had ds, they've got progressively bigger, waist is the same, hips disappearing . Never thought I'd miss those, turns out I do.

[Bangtastic]

I am 5 and a half stone less than when I fell pregnant with DD who is now 2.3.

[nethunsreject]

I'm a stone less. My two are 5yrs and 16mths.

[betterwhenthesunshines]

8stone 9lbs when I got married - which was a bit skinny for me, i'm 5ft 9".
9 stone was a good weight before children and I didn't put on a lot of weight while I was pregnant first time ( didn't have scales, so didn't weigh myself!)

But with the 2nd pregnancy, I've just never got back to feeling slim like before, hips wider, comfy padding across tummy... Over the summer I got up to 9st10lbs which is the heaviest I've been. It shifts if I eat really carefully, but it seems to stabilise at 9st 6lbs and I'm not going to start running marathons to get lower as I reckon one hour fast dog walking and pilates once a week should be enough!

I'm not sure it's to do with having children, just metabolism changing slightly as you get older, I'm 39. DC are 10 and 7.

[ballroomblitz]

fluctuates

[ballroomblitz]

flutates from 8.5 to 9 stone. Was the same before ds 4 years ago, though he was born under 3lb

[MissPenteuth]

I'm a few lbs heavier than pre-pregnancy (DD is 19mo). Was 8st 4lb then, about 8st 9lb now. I'm happyish with my weight but all the excess is on my tummy, and the skin there is a bit saggy too. I'd prefer if the weight was more evenly distributed!

[bouleverse]

I am 3 or 4 pounds heavier than I was after DS1- 25 years ago and DS 2 - 6 years ago.

I did have a bit of a chubby phase, for a couple of years in the middle, when I was about a stone heavier.

I had my bmi measured a few weeks ago, it was 22, so supposedly "the right weight", whatever that means.

[Trills]

For example, I weigh about a stone more than I did 8 years ago, but I have not been pregnant or had any children in that time.

[Trills]

You need a control group of women who have not had children to ask them their weights at different ages.

How much of the weight gain is 3 children and how much is the 7 years?

[tinkbig]

dd2 now 2.8 years

[tinkbig]

i weighed 7st6 before dc2
i weighed 9st6 after having dc2
now weigh 8st2

so not too bad
have abit of baby tummy still
did wii fit alot after having dd2 lost loads

[VeryLittleGravitas]

I was 8st3 at my first MW appointment (weight prior to pregnancy varied between 7st7 and 8st). I put on 3 1/2 stone each time I'm pregnant, which takes the best part of a year to shift.

20 years and 4 kids later, and I'm 9st2, so a much healthier weight for my hight (5'8)

[Robotindisguise]

I weigh the same. DD is two. While BF, I was about seven pounds lighter. Got totally used to it. Slightly crushing when I stopped BF at 13 months and the weight came straight back on.

[gaaagh]

I'm 11.5 stones roughly last time i checked

but i'm quite short so it looks worse than it sounds

not going to pretend it wasn't the DCs that started this slippery slope but i seem to have a problem getting back to my settled weight (about 2 stone less)... i genuinely think that having DCs (10 and 14, btw) has shifted my "settled weight"...

i've always been the sort of person where i seem to stay the same weight no matter how active i am or how much i eat, it just seems that having DCs shifted that point 2 stone higher

ho hum, never mind

i don't begrudge it, i'm healthy enough.

i do think that we shouldn't be so quick to judge others for worrying about this sort of stuff though, i remember a few months ago when someone on here posted an article where a childless woman was worrying about the effect of having children on her body... so many people were so quick to shoot it down with "omg how vain is she" and "she's so super ficial"... when the fact is that it is a fact that for some women it changes their weight for the worse. not all, but some. and that's not a bad thing, it's just different.

so, yes, i'm one of the unlucky ones, but i'm comfortable with that, if not neccesarily happy about it.

[Forcasi]

I weigh about 11 stone now.

Pre-kids I weighed 15 stone plus. I gained 1.5 stone with DS1 which came off immediately plus more for luck, stayed the same weight with DS2 (so ended up lighter when he was born), and gained a stone with DS3 which again came off quickly, though the c-section overhang didn't!

I find it harder to lose weight now but I think that's an age thing!

[azazello]

Pre-kids 10st 6lbs. Ate out a lot, drank a lot- no exercise.
Post DD (now 4) 10st 8lbs
Immediately after DS was born 14st (SPD)
Now 9st 5lbs.

I made a big effort to lose the weight and was bf so it fell off pretty much. I still eat too much but don't drink as much now and exercise a lot more.

[bibbitybobbityhat]

My oldest child is 10 and I am about a stone and a half heavier (and I was a stone overweight anyway).

But I actually put the weight gain down to giving up smoking 3 times in the past 10 years, and also going from 38 to 48 years old and facing the dreaded middle aged spread.

[TapselteerieO]

dd is ten, I was 28 when she was born and weighed just over 8 stone, ds is 7, now I weigh about 9 stone, no scales in the house so I haven't weighed myself for a few months, I think some of my weight gain is age related, it has been a very gradual, I know I could do with losing a few pounds.