PP body making me feel rubbish

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I'm so grateful to have my 3 month old baby boy, he's truly made me the most happiest I have ever been but recently I have felt very down about my body I put in 3 stone overall and have lost a stone, I just feel so chunky but still have tiny boobs! Which makes it worse as the comparison makes my stomach look even bigger, I just feel really unattractive and even though my husband hasn't said anything in my head I think he no longer finds me attractive. We are going on holiday in 2 weeks and I'm so exited to make memories as a little family but am also dreading feeling rubbish about myself as I can't seem to shake the feeling.
I guess I'm just looking to see if anyone else feels the same and also how long it took to get back to a similar weight to how you were before? I can't help but compare myself to my friends who's babies are now nearly 1 and they are as slim as ever!
I exercise regularly and eat healthy the majority of the time but just can't seem to shift the weight. (I had an emergency section so have only recently started training in the last month)

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Congratulations on your baby!

The way I viewed pregnancy-related weight gain was that it took 9 months to put it on, so it seems reasonable to aim for 9 months to get it off again. Steady weight loss is more achievable and sustainable than crash dieting.

If you had an emergency section, your body will have needed extra time to recover from that. You've done really well to lose a stone already, that's a third of the weight you gained gone in 3 months even with restrictions on what you could do!

Hey OP it's hard but I think you're holding yourself to extremely high standards and an unrealistic timeline.
I know this because I was pretty much exactly the same as you, 3 stone (and a bit!) on and then emergency c-section and struggled with pp body for a few months after.
It took me a good 9-12 months for hormones to settle and get back into the swing of things and 'feel' like myself. It may have been a little quicker had I reined it in a little earlier but that's the way it went.
3 months is early days and you will get there but in the meantime buy a nice cover up and some nice holiday clothes that boost your confidence and enjoy your time away with your beautiful family

My 3 month PP body was very different to my 1 year PP body. Please try and be patient. It was well over a year before I was back to my former weight, and I couldn't shift the last bit while breastfeeding. It fell off when I stopped.

You're doing fine. It's a marathon, not a sprint, and you're still at the beginning 💐