How long did it take you to lose the baby weight?

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I went from 130lbs to 173lbs while pregnant. Seven weeks later I weigh 148lbs and am just starting to think about losing the baby weight. I wondered how long should I expect it to take? And does breast feeding help? I am hoping it will make the excess weight melt away - I am more than bored of my maternity dresses but nothing else fits!

I went from 8 stone 5lb pre pregnancy to 12 stone. DD's now nearly 11 months and I'm 9 stone 4lb. But I didn't manage to BF and when we go out we don't tend to walk much, so doing that would probably help a lot. She's just starting to walk now though so I'm sure I'll be shifting a bit more just trying to keep up!

about three or four months for me. Whilst I did lots of walking, swimming and aquajogging I also ate whatever I wanted, and more. I think the BFing really did help because I've stopping now and the weight is piling on. Must stop the chocolate.

opps I mean I've stopped now

with dc1, lost most of the weight within 5 months but took about another 8/9 months to lose the last 5lbs. It was sooo frustrating! dc2 is 3 months, I put on 2 stones and have lost just over half of it, intending to lose the rest of it over the next 3 months. I have eaten a lot less cake than first time round and this time didn't try and compete with dh on food portion sizes! . Snacking on lots of fruit to satisfy my sweet tooth has helped.

Didn't lose any weight apart from baby etc and water retention until I stopped breastfeeding at 7 months, then only lost 5lbs, still had 2st to go when DS was 19 months, and now I'm 36weeks with DS2 and close to the weight I was when I was full term with DS1! I don't expect to lose much until I stop breastfeeding, although hopefully I will as I'll have DS1 to run round after when the baby is sleeping!

Really quickly both times. Within weeks. I'm naturally very slim and breastfeeding sucked the life out of me.

I think I sweated most of it out with DS1 in the first couple of weeks - it was gross.