to have expected to come home from hospital a little lighter than this?

[EagleRay]

I had a baby on Tuesday - a HUGE one at 4.6kg

During the ELCS, the theatre staff marvelled at the size of the accompanying placenta.

There was fluid pouring out of me and onto the floor - can remember the doctor complaining her feet were wet.

And yet, I've come home to find I weigh precisely 5kg lighter than I did at the start of the week

I ate some flapjack and crisps before I was discharged but it still seems a bit unfair.

Anyone else been cheated in this way?

It's different for everyone. I was back to normal within a few days of my ELCS but I gained about 14lbs in total anyway and 8lb was baby, and I didn't retain much fluid afterwards.

I know others who it took months to come off with. Bodies are weird.

Cripes.

It will come off.

I was smug to all feck when I had DD (9 lb 3) and lost 3 stone in 5 days

Had pre eclampsia though so lots of fluid (we are talking cankles, and face swell and the whole shebang.

Seriously though it will come off, jibbed though, and stop weighing yourself for a few weeks.

Do it in a month and report back! x

Scary actually - a 9 pound 3 baby and placenta, max 10 pounds. 3 stone is 42 pounds. 32 pounds is 14.5 kilos. Water weighs what it measures. 14.5 kilos is therefore 14.5 litres of water! Shit.

Yep - after a c section for a 7lb baby and 3 days in hospital, I weighed the same when I came out as when I went in!!!

It did disappear a week or so later though. Fluid fluid everywhere.

I had a 10lb 6oz baby, a placenta the size of a small dog and what seemed like 4 buckets of water and I think I lost a stone that day but I was surprised it wasn't more too

Not quite the same, but I was looking forward to having my gall bladder out as I thought having one less internal organ would instantly make me half a stone to a stone lighter. Imagine my distress when I found out that gall bladders barely weigh more than a couple of ounces

I was up at 5am in agony with pelvic pain and general overdoing-it-causing-wound-pain and while I was in the bathroom I decided to weigh myself and to my horror I was exactly the same weight

Had 2 more hours of sleep, woke up again, did a massive wee and was 0.6kg lighter!

Please note - this isn't vanity related - just my fascination with my body and its post-op fluids!

I'm current lying with newborn in a hammock under a tree and my feet are elevated as high as my head which is helping lots. Pity they didn't give out hammocks instead of surgical stockings on nhs

< exciting update>

Since I last posted, half a stone has disappeared!

Still finding it fascinating - it all gets weed out in one go, around 8am usually. I look forward to getting out of bed just for this

If only it were always this easy to jettison extra weight

In my case my bf boobs were about 3kg each!!!!

I was amazed too! At my weight and the size of my belly... I still looked pregnant for ages. I was expecting a flat stomach (but I didn't even have one before ) Two years on and I can only wish I was as slim as I was post section...

It is fascinating. I peed like a horse post birth. Didn't expect t that at all.

I had twins almost full term, 39+5, and was enormous. But for some odd reason as with my first, I just went off food. When I found I was expecting DS1 I was quite looking forward to the cravings etc, but they never came......I just went off food! No morning sickness, just didn't want to eat. Last few months with him could only stomach macaroni cheese (barf at it now). When expecting twins it was cornflakes and ice cold milk else last few months. Twins ended up being 6 and 7lb, and I ended up 7lb lighter week after having them than before I got pregnant. Not normal I know, but took that as my reward for finding food repulsive for 9 months lol

Yes I had this too!! A huge baby of 11lbs, apparently a huge placenta and masses of fluid but only half a stone lighter when I got home after 3 days - again it was purely for interest, I couldn't care less about the baby weight.....

I had horrific night sweats with both DC for about 3 weeks, I'd drop 5/6lbs a night for the first week!!