When did your tummy go down?

[BettyButterknife]

DS2 is 5 days old and I still look 6 months pregnant!

takes a few weeks.

2 weeks

mine went down pretty much straight away, was back in my jeans within a week, I suppose it is different for everyone

DC3 is 5 weeks today and I can finally do up my favourite skirt and shorts. Not comfy but at least I can now get into them.

I'lll be pleasantly surprised if mine ever goes down given how huge it is at the moment (31 weeks).

After a crash section it took me forever and a lot of physiotherapy.

If you're worried about it and your pelvic sling, book yourself in with a post natal physio.

Don't worry - mine took AGES. I had emerg c section and was massive beforehand as polyhydramnious. At 6 weeks I met NCT group and they all looked tiny and I was still huge. As sunnydays says, it is different for everyone. I got very depressed when I read in bounty booklet that 'at 2 weeks your uterus will have gone back to its normal size'...

Now at 6 months I feel like I don't look pregnant anymore! But think it will be a few months before I can get into my favourite old clothes...
Breastfeeding helps things shrink back I think.

About 5 weeks, I think, but I was bf-ing a LOT.

a month or so. bf'ing helped, i think. lost all my pg weight very quickly , for no real reason.

Oh good - not just me then

I was polyhydramnious too, BionicB and utterly enormous.

It's just weird when you think that the baby, fluid, placenta etc have all gone - what on earth is left in there making me look so huge??

Uterus went down very fast, muffin top is clearly here 9 weeks on!

mine was flat by 6 days after, put 4 stone on and lost the 3 and half stone before he was 6 days, for god knows what reason, must have holded alot of water.

Mine took about a year ...but that could be down to all the chocolate I ate {wink]

I'd say by 5 wks i'd stopped looking pregnant and just looked a bit fat! DD2 now 7 weeks, lost over 2 stone but still another stone to go and weight loss has slowed to about 1lb a week

I'm still going down at 4 weeks and counting, but I'm still bleeding too. Plus I put on lots of fat, so that's going to take ages :(

Was almost back to normal when I left hospital. That's a gestational diabetic diet for you!

my dd was a year old on fri and my belly has never recovered. its the oddest shape now

It's meant to go down afterwards??

Seriously, after both of mine it took a good 6 weeks for me (c sections - don't know if that makes any difference) but I found it hard to judge too as I put on so much weight anyway. I did lose it both times in the end but it took me a good few months to get back in my old size 10 clothes.

Belly never really looks the same though even after training for a marathon!

Expecting dc3 now - 4 weeks till due date so not looking forward to my post pregnant body once again!

BettyButterknife - yes I am sure being Polyhydramnious makes everything bigger and therefore it takes longer to go down - whatever 'it' is, as you say! I suppose the muscles (muscles ?) get used to being out and then have to adjust back to normal.

Though I would be happy to be a 'back in my jeans after a week' person, I am not and I think that it's important that you give yourself 9 months to lose weight that took 9 months to go on (don't know what my excuse will be when DD is 10 months )

Oh god am dreading post pg body! I just keep flashing back to the first time you stand up after having the baby and everything just hangs like an empty sack, bleughhh! Not looking forward to it. Especially since I made the mistake of weighing myself yesterday and have put on 2.5 stone, and still have 6 weeks to go!

1 year and 2 weeks later I don't look very pregnant just a bit fat - sorry not really helpful!

a LONG time