Weight after children

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Am I insane or does having children make you heavier?! I don’t mean fatter, I mean heavier: I am back in my pre pregnancy skinny jeans, they are a bit snug but reasonable, not bursting at the seams etc, however I am apparently still over a stone heavier than before pregnancy, which I just don’t think can be correct?!? Unless I’m extremely deluded/blind. I’m breastfeeding but surely my breasts don’t weigh a stone? 😂🙈 AIBU or what is this sorcery?!

I'm about 8lbs heavier than before. Not happy with it.

seline

Are you heavier but the same size?

Made my feet go up a shoe size and my fingers go up a ring size! I've just had my second and am bigger and a bigger size than before but with my first I got back down to my pre baby clothes size but I was a different shape and heavier. I reckon it might be the skin perhaps as I had a load of loose skin. And my shoe size went up a size after my first and never went back!

But if your jeans are sung then you are fatter. I can wear the same size with about 10kgs variation in weight.

I was wondering this. I’m a stone heavier but I fit in my old jeans. I certainly need to lose a bit but a whole stone feels like a lot. Either I’m deluded or it does make you heavier as I feel I don’t look that different. Also breastfeeding atm.

I’m
Definitely fatter but I can’t believe I’m a stone fatter - is there THAT much variation in one jean size?! I didn’t know that!

I already feel less insane based on people saying the same!

I'm actually lighter.
a size in clothing can usually accommodate slight weight fluctuations. I'd say you generally would need to gain over a stone or so to go up a size if you were comfortably in that size before kids.

also breastfeeding will probably cause slight water retention/ milk supply. so that could account for 2-3lbs possibly.

your scales are more than likely correct.

your scales are more than likely correct.

I have ordered new ones all the same

Denial is not just a river in Egypt
And all that...

just to add I'm lighter now because I have anxiety - not related to the birth of my kids, so I quite often struggle to eat. I'm about 9 lbs lighter yet still feel like my clothes fit the same than pre pregnancy

Two stone is the fluctation i need to go up or down a clothes size - but of course there is a vast difference between getting into clothes and the seams straining, and wearing clothes that still fit

I feel like you can get left with a lot more internal body fat after having a baby and before being toned back up (or as toned as you were or felt you were before). I've been left with quite a large bum, I had no bum before. Fat has distributed all over in odd places 😂

I agree with PP - I can fit into the same size with a two stone variation (though of course it fits better and more comfortably at the lower end!).

I'm exactly the same weight but a size bigger 🤷🏼‍♀️

I want to add that I’ve never been as muscly as I have in my arms from
Lugging this baby around all day - I’m
Sure I do 10000s of bicep curls every day with the rocking so I’m holding out some hope about muscle weighing more than fat 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

minicooperlover

Internal body fat probably about right though!

homegrownmumma

Witchcraft!!!!!

I can fit into the same size with a two stone variation (though of course it fits better and more comfortably at the lower end!).

This seems bananas! I never knew this

My scales were 4kg Off 😂

Yes I'm like this, could still fit in my clothes (Almost 2 stone more) but they were very snug!
I'm actually the same weight now as I was when I was 38 weeks pregnant, baby is 5 in spring