While breastfeeding, did you put on weight or lose it?

[electra]

I've just been reading the thread in site stuff about weight gain (or lack of) in pregnancy.

It got me thinking about myself, and particularly that I didn't put much weight on at all when I was pregnant but tend to put more weight on during breastfeeding, and don't lose it all until I have stopped.

What have your experiences been? And if you put weight on during bf is it possibly because of how hungry it makes you and eating the wrong things?

I put on nearly 3 stone whilst preg with both of mine and lost it all plus a stone by the time they were 9 months. I regained that stone within a couple of moths of stopping feeding. (except to gain it again straight away with my first being pregnant )

Lost it

Have no idea what weight I gained in either pg

But by the time the baby was 6m old I had dropped 2 dress sizes (lost A LOT then plateaued)

Before dds I was a 14 (sometimes 16)

Am now 12 (sometimes 10)

i have lost weight while bf both times. not huge amounts - i don't seem to put much on when pg - but back into pre-preg clothes pretty quickly. and eat like horse when bf. i have v hungry babies tho! and with ds1 stress was def part of the equation...

gained with dd, when i stopped it fell it off
am feeding ds and am fat, trying so hard to loose it as i want to bf for a while but feel crap

gained, about 2 stones in total

I put on quite a lot with both pregnancies and didnt loose much whilst bf ds1, but with bf ds2 it is dropping off, possibly because i have a 2 year old to run around after aswell as bf baby!

During pg I tend to have neat bumps and get fitter - baby eats my meals and I eat my excess body fat.
I'm breastfeeding for the first time (3rd baby though) and must be at or below my pre-preg weight already at 6wks (getting weighed on Thurs at checkup). Mind you 90mins schoolrun a day might have something to do with it but I'm definitely feeling the calorie pinch. Can't really complain except that I need a whole new wardrobe and finding BF tops that aren't hideously unflattering is proving v hard.