How does it feel when you suddenly don't have a baby in your tummy?

[bumperlicious]

I know that sounds like a really weird question, but after carrying this LO around for 9 months I am wondering what it will feel like when suddenly there is this big empty space.

Also, just so I can get a sense of perspective, how long before your tummy 'goes down' and you no longer look pg?!

I felt really weird and couldn't quite realte my bump to the baby that was in my arms, they were kind of separate things, one day I had a bump the next day I had a baby but they weren't related - does that help. Sure it wasn't the same for everyone. Also I felt phantom movements too!

It just seemed totally normal, I didn't notice it. It was weird because when the baby is in your tummy you can't imagine anything else, but when the baby is out of your tummy you can't imagine anything else. Tummy was just all squishy and blubbery. But the transition from baby-in to baby-out I didn't notice in that conscious way.

Tummy goes down - took me about 6 weeks before I didn't look horribly pregnant

You just need to carry the baby around all the time and thrust him in people's faces so they don't question whether you are still up the duff or not

It feels a bit odd for the first day or so and you really feel the weight gone.

With my first I lost the bump fat pretty quickly but with my second 7 months on, I still have it. Thats through my pure laziness though

too busy to 'feel' !!

Mine went down after about a month.

Then distressingly went back up again as I replaced the baby-shaped hole with cake .

I found the strangest feeling was the lack of weight and my balence was off for a few days. Also couldn't help standing as though dd was still in there.

bloomin' marvellous! especially if you love sleeping on your belly like I do

I am 4 weeks post birth and praying the my bump will go down some more, I stil look a bit preg

You'll be so wrapped up in your new baby that you probably won't notice too much.
You'll be able to actually hug them rather than just rub and pat them.

Your tummy will be like an old ,not very stiff, in need of more beans, bean bag. Saggy and pouchy!!

Felt v odd to me, belly felt loose/wobbly and saggy for the first few days.
Have heard that wearing a post natal type girdle is meant to help both by helping your muscles contract and also doing away with that funny wobbly sensation. Am going to try it this time round...

FAB!!! Although I still get phantom movements and LO is 10 weeks old - maybe there's another one in there they forgot to pull out???

lonely even though i then had a baby!
like a bowl of jelly on a bouncy castle. tuck it into some bucket pants!

You're so busy with loving and staring at your new baby, plus all the nasty stuff (sticthes, pain, gunk etc) that it really didn't occur to me to 'miss' the bump. My uterus went down quite quickly and because I wasn't hefting round this huge mound, I thought I was slimcia-girl and I felt all light and thin. Ha! Then I realised the lovely firm bump had turned into a collapsed heap which was still attached to me but which now hung and wobbled.
(and 18 months on... no change there, then!)

i missed my bump,really i did. it was so amazing having the baby but i felt strange not to be pregnant. i got phantom movements as well. treasure these last few weeks while your baby is part and parcel of you and you alone, it's a lovely time.

lol aitch! i still get phantom movemrnts 7 months on after after ds2. gives dh a heartattack! pmsl

I miss my bump too, even though I hated it at the end, especially when I was 13 days over...

it's gone down very quickly this time (has pretty much gone just over 2 weeks after the event) and it just feels weird to be honest.

God I barely even thought about it. I had a baby! Lol. Really, just wasn't there and the baby was, the baby bit was the bit that felt weird...

I remember was cousin asking me if I thought I'd miss being pregnant (had a nice easy pregnancy) and I said I didn't think so. She thought I would, but I didn't.

I do look back on that pregnancy time as a lovely cosy quiet time, but I didn't miss it after, too much to adapt to!

Fantastic - you can breathe, sleep on your front and NO MORE HEARTBURN!!!!

Lonely

I gave birth lying back and saw my tummy deflate as DS1 came out! It was really strange!
But with the new baby in arms I didn't really think about not having a 'bump' anymore at all.
I do remember the first time I lay flat on my tummy though, about 2 weeks after he was born and thinking 'Wow, I forgot I could do this now!'

About an hour after giving birth to ds I needed a wee so I hopped off the trolley and as I walked I felt empty inside - not emotionally but as though I had nothing inside me. Rather an odd feeling. That was the first and only time I noticed it though