To think that once I have had this baby.........

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The pounds will just melt away

YANBU I predict you'll lose about 7lb virtually instantly.......

Bless you!
If it's any consolation, my disappeared when he reached 9 mths - 1 year and got mobile.

I lost 3.5 stones with birth and first week for an 8lb baby .. does that help?

Yes, the pounds just drop off - it's the 2 stone and extra chin that won't go away.

you will lose lots of pounds..babies are very expensive

i found BF amazing for loosing weight!!

Sitting down with biscuits not so good.....

F**k, wish I had lost 7lbs instantly!! I breast fed for 7months, and only AFTER I finished breastfeeding did the weight start to just drop off.

I was really impressed by everyone saying to me 'you'll lose all that extra weight once you breastfeed'. Yeah right. Won't be taken in by that again!
Works for some mums, but not everyone sadly. Just depends on your metabolism.

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I lost a lot more weight, more quickly when I had my second child, because I was running around after a toddler, as well as looking after my newborn ds, who always seemed to need bf'd when I was about to sit down to eat, and I carried him around in a sling more too... but I didn't put on as much weight in my second pg either....

I put on 4 stone in my pregnancy - baby is now 4 weeks old and I've lost 3 stone so far.

I still had not got my celeb body back from last one

I thought bf just helps contract everything, but no!! It was only I had stopped bf for a couple of months that I got back to my normal size.
Has anyone told you about the afterpains??

GIve it time

My body shape has completely changed since having dc

Was size 14-16 pre dc, am now 10-12. Wierd.

But did not lose preg/baby weight until about 8m after birth

Oh don`t worry I know all about after pains, get worse with each one too will be packing my heat up wheat bag very good for that so it is.

Tell me about heat up wheat bag, does it help.... c-section drugs help reduce them a tiny amounnt but they were awful after dc2, not after dc3 but I'm dreading it this time.
Did you visit your neice and is everything okay?

yes all sorted now family eh?
ok, the heat bag works well or it did for my last few. Put lavender oil on it and sit up with it on bell. First few days I always try and get a suppository (sp)and as much co prom tabs I can scrounge. Also do deep breathing especially through bf. Bloody hurts though dreading that more than labour.

oops that should be belly , should have no need for bell!

bf will use it up

Bfing worked quite well for me but what really shifted those last few awkward pounds was once ds1 got mobile. Unfortunately looking after 2 of them hasn't helped shift the extra lbs after having ds2. Still bfing though so maybe they will go when he stops. I did reaqd somewhere you do hang onto a few pounds when bfing as a 'reserve'

bf makes me hungry. I remember my friend commented on one of my babies cradle cap, it turned out to be hob nob crumbs where I had been chomping whilst feeding

lol narky!!

My average-sized friend had a baby and breastfed and lost loads of weight. She actually looked emaciated. (meanwhile she had the fattest 6-month-old I've ever seen - it was like her DD literally sucked half of her away!)

So it can happen! - but it's genetic probaby. Funny how it always seems to be the case for skinny celebs though...

I'm still waiting to lose the weight. Gained 4 stone with DD and lost 2 stone giving birth (9lb baby and a lot of fluid and other associated gubbins - BIG placenta etc) slowly lost 1 stone over the following year (bf for 10 months). And now just got pregnant again - still carrying nearly a stone from last pg. Doh!