Questions and answers

Compare this section with Yahoo Answers and Google Answers. Questions are all related to becoming pregnant, pregnancy, birth and babies.
Go to the Questions and answers index

weight & breastfeeding
Added: 79 days ago.
Added by: flutterbylovebump
Section: General.
Status: This question is Closed. (Questions will be closed after 10 days.)


Is it true we retain some fat stores whilst breastfeeding? or am I just kidding myself?

---

kater - 78 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) yeah i was told this too, but for me, i got so hungry from feeding, i just ate more, and didnt loose the baby weight until after she was weaned. i have heard though, for some people, breastfeeding works wonders for weight loss

sarahann - 79 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) My doctor told me that she was her skinniest when her baby was six months old because breastfeeding made her lose weight. Well, my baby is 10 months old and I have been breastfeeding the whole time and I am the heaviest I've ever been. I went back to normal just a couple of weeks after the birth, but since then I've piled on the weight. I hope you are right and when I stop breastfeeding I'll lose the weight!

flutterbylovebump - 79 days ago Thankyou ladies for you'r comments, I appreciate it. Yep, am BF only, my babe's just turned 4 months but I don't seem to have lost much weight :( Can only hope will loose more when I wean her.... or when I'm running around after her as a toddler!

moms the word - 79 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I lost weight while nursing my daughter and hope to lose weight again while nursing this baby as well. Just eat a well balanced diet and get plenty of water to help keep your milk production where it should be. I also took my daughter on a walk daily to help restart my "normal" metabolism after she was born.

Tierra - 79 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) i retained water for the first week after i had my daughter and then lost all the 24 pounds i gained and i also lost an extra 15 pounds....... my husband thinks im getting too skinny and thinks i have a problem cause i think im fat..... like the other woman said it is different for every woman

EniChan - 79 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) i heard u can lose weight while nursing. i hopeit will work for me too :-)

candace3 - 79 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) I never lost my pregnancy weight until I weaned my daughter...at 14months. Some lose lots of weight while nursing and others do not. I unfortunatly, didn't lose it until then and was pregnant 2 months later....so I had 2 months of feeling like me...oh, well.

KarenVG - 79 days ago Rating: 0 (0 votes) Yeah we do, some of us more than others, just have to walk it and exercise it off afterwards!