Breastfeeding weight gain

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I am cracking up! Have a newborn, 5 weeks old and she is feeding constantly. Every 1.5-2 hours. I am gaining weight weekly and I don't understand why? I am eating well and walking everyday with the pram although granted I am not sleeping... At all. Baby does not want put down and wriggles and grunts as soon as she is placed in crib. Feeling sorry for myself today... Surely I should be losing weight and not gaining, given the amount I am feeding. Any tips or help appreciated.

My advice. Give yourself a bit of a break. Your hormones are all over the place, your body is trying to cling to calories to fuel you and the ability to make milk. Baby is only 5 weeks old.
Eat well, eat often and hydrate more than you ever thought possible.
When baby is a few months older then reassess and see how you feel. But this isn't the time for being hard on your body.
The only time I'd want to flag it is if you felt 'unwell' otherwise and suspected something like diabetes.

exactly what PP said. Be kind to yourself. I didn't start losing weight until a good 2 and half years after I had DS. I just wanted to enjoy my time with my baby without the pressure of "snapping back".

You're doing great x

I didn't lose any weight until I stopped breastfeeding! The 'breastfeeding is great for weight loss' thing is a bit of a myth as far as I'm concerned. There's all sorts of mad hormonal stuff going on too, plus sleep deprivation and when I'm tired I tend to eat more anyway.

Personally I stopped worrying about my own weight until a good six months or later after baby was born. Even when I got back to my old weight my body shape had entirely changed anyway, regardless of what the scales said!

Feeding at those intervals is normal at 5 weeks. It will start to regulate and become less frequent soon.

Don't worry about the weight either. Give yourself some time and grace. In these first few weeks your body is going through so much. At once your hormones are raging, you're losing excess water you've clung on to, you're learning how to make enough milk for baby, your figuring out how many calories you need to make this milk (and your body will prioritise making the baby milk so might be clinging onto calories to help)

The say it takes 9 months to put on the weight and 9 months to lose it. That was true for me, but it did go.

I’m the same and it’s got me down too, despite my attempts to ignore it 🙁

I'm not going to lie, I didn't like being heavier either. I hated seeing other mothers with flat tummies and babies younger than mine.

It was temporary though. My youngest is now 3 and im the lightest I've been for years.