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

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 14:25

Just read an article from a magazine left on the train. It was about Mel B and it said that she had been to some event in Hollywood and still had not lost all the weight she had put on after having her baby.

She had a baby 8 weeks ago! I know that in La La Land most things are surreal but having a baby is as real as it gets and a woman's body will invariably gain weight. It takes 9 months to go on so why the modern unrealistic expection by meeja types for new mothers to look like they have never had a baby?

I wish more slebs who have babies would lose weight properly instead of indulging in unrealistic diets so that they can fit into tiny frocks agian.

Grrr!

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Judy1234 · 31/05/2007 14:31

When I had the twins after it looked like there was a third one in there. It takes a while to get back to normal and you need to do it safely. It took me 6 or 7 months after with the twins (and I remember because I wanted to look okay at my brother's wedding).

Cappuccino · 31/05/2007 14:33

oh my fil came round 4 days after dd2 was born and said 'ooh look at cappy's stomach is there another one in there'

he has a paunch so, as you can imagine, I had a very quick answer for him

tassis · 31/05/2007 14:33

my last half stone seems to have finally fallen off all by itself and dd is over 8 months.

tassis · 31/05/2007 14:35

when ds met his little sister he walked into the room, gasped and whispered "Is that our baby?"

lovely moment...slightly spolied by the fact that he then pointed to my (still v fat)stomach and said "So who's in there?"

toomuchtodo · 31/05/2007 14:36

I've still got pregnancy weight and kids at school!

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 14:36

Ditto Xenia. After I had my DTS I had 4.5 stone to lose. After 7 months I had lost all but 1 stone by lots of walking, some running, breast feeding and healthy eating. It took nearly another year to lose the last stone but I preferred it that way. Slow and permament.

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motherinferior · 31/05/2007 14:38

Oh GOD this is so unhelpful, fume rage.

There was a dame in my antenatal group who was back in her jeans four days after giving birth but she was very odd.

amidaiwish · 31/05/2007 14:38

tassis

it is 9 months on and 9 months off.... it definitely takes a full 9 months to get back to your previous shape
no matter what you do
even my "never put on an oz" personal trainer friends have found that after having a baby. i was really amazed that they didn't "spring" right back...

then again don't most celebs have a) caesarian at 36 weeks so they don't put on that last month of fat and b) have a bit of a tuck if they can at the same time or shortly after?

FioFio · 31/05/2007 14:39

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HenriettaHippo · 31/05/2007 14:40

Totally unrealistic, and v. unfair to Mel B and all us ordinary people out here. Don't some celebs have tummy tucks performed at the same time as their elective c-sections? Which are done a month early to avoid that last month of sudden weight gain? Now, is that the healthy way to do it? I think not...

barb23 · 31/05/2007 14:41

I was always told it's 9 months up and 9 months down. But still not pre-pregnancy figure after my second child, who's now 2!!!! I'm calling it middle aged spread now.

HenriettaHippo · 31/05/2007 14:41

amidaiwish, we are on the same wave length I think...

fuzzywuzzy · 31/05/2007 14:41

In my view it is perfectly reasonable and right to retain baby weight right up till said baby moves out.....

I was once told by a girl that a mutual friend only had herself to blame if her husband started playing away as the poor woman still had some baby weight six weeks after giving birth..... she of course was back in her jeans two minutes after giving birth....I'm sincerely hoping she wont come to me with her sorrows if her husband leaves her because she's an utter cow.

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 14:43

Now that I did not know. I've often wondered why so many slebs seem to have C-section.

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Stigaloid · 31/05/2007 14:43

My friend's sister was a nurse at an exclusive celeb hospital and confirmed that they had elective surgery's a month or more before EDD so they could have a tummy tuck at the same time.

Stigaloid · 31/05/2007 14:43

My friend's sister was a nurse at an exclusive celeb hospital and confirmed that they had elective surgery's a month or more before EDD so they could have a tummy tuck at the same time.

Lazycow · 31/05/2007 14:44

Well guys I lost all my baby weight 4.5stone in total (bar 4lbs) in 6 weeks so it can happen. HOWEVER and this is a big however (hence the caps), I had the follwoing mitigating circumstances

1 I was overweight before I got pregnant - so losing 4.5 stone after the birth still left me about 3 stone overweight

2 I did NOT diet in any way but I suffered from PND and despite being ravenously hungry most of the time as I was breastfeeding, I really had no desire/time to eat anything other than what dh put in front of me.

3 I then went to the U.S for six months when ds was 10 weeks old and came back to the UK having put on the whole 4.5 stone again.

So you could say I lost all the weight in 6 weeks but that 9 months after ds was born I was back up to birth weight again.

hey ho

Cappuccino · 31/05/2007 14:45

I did once read Sarah Jessica Parker on the subject of losing baby weight and she was saying she wouldn't say how she did it, there was so much pressure on her to do it and the way it was done wasn't natural, and she hated that that was the image that was given to other women by the media

still I didn't see her wandering around in a pair of tracksuit bottoms eating a donut, did you?

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 14:46

You can see what is happening. The next generation of mothers will think something is wrong with them if they are still carrying baby weight two weeks after giving birth.

Be interesting to see what Mylene Klass and Baby spice (can't remember real name) do. Also, Jordan will no doubt lose the weight rapidly again.

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DontCallMeBaby · 31/05/2007 14:48

I lost mine in a month ... but I'd rather still be carrying it now than to have had the PND that made the weight loss possible.

What was left was also not distributed in quite the same way as it was pre-baby!

anniemac · 31/05/2007 14:49

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SpacePuppy · 31/05/2007 14:49

I'm 18 months post birth and have been trying to loose the final 3.5kg for the past 8 months!

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 14:53

Take up running and eat smaller portions. That's how I did it!

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mozhe · 31/05/2007 15:00

Some of it I'm sure is to do with the body type you are....I don't put on much weight in pregnancy,( interestingly I don't notice much of an increase in appetite either, though I do in the first month of breastfeeding a new baby ),and I do go back to my pre-preg weight almost immediately.However getting back into shape, ie; toning is another matter That comes with lots of exercise I'm afraid....