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For Mommy's: holding baby weight a yr later & thinking of another babby

bess26 posted:

Hello Mommy's -
I'm posting in hopes for to gain some advice on the topwh/any personal thoughts/experiences on this topic. Any feed back would be wonderful & helpful. t
ic oThanks! (sorry for typos)f holding baby weight & thinking about another child.
My daughter is 13months old. I'm not "overweight" (170lbs @ 5'8"). I am very healthy and eat very well. I have breastfed this whole time with her & eat very well. My activity level/working out isnt what i would like it to be (considering I've been a highly competitive athlete my whole life).However, I have held my weight (not all) and don't feel totally comfortable @ my current weight. I have heard from other mothers who breastfeed that their weight came off much slower. I have also heard that weit comes off faster after the second child. Needless to say, my husband and I have been dicussing having another child fairly soon (around late summer).
Being that I have heard very conflicting things about "not loosing all the weight when you will put more back on & that the up and down of weight loss/gain could be worse than just holding a bit of it for now. I'm curious to know

2 Replies |Watch This Discussion | Report This| Share this:For Mommy's: holding baby weight a yr later & thinking of another babbyHello Mommy's - I'm posting in hopes for to gain some advice on the topwh/any personal thoughts/experiences on this topic. Any feed back would be wonderful & helpful. t ic oThanks! (sorry for typos)f holding baby weight & thinking about another child. My daughter is 13months old. I'm not "overweight" (170lbs @ 5'8"). I am very healthy and eat very well. I have breastfed this whole time with her & eat very well. My activity level/working out isnt what i would like it to be (considering I've been a highly competitive athlete my whole life).However, I have held my weight (not all) and don't feel totally comfortable @ my current weight. I have heard from other mothers who breastfeed that their weight came off much slower. I have also heard that weit comes off faster after the second child. Needless to say, my husband and I have been dicussing having another child fairly soon (around late summer). Being that I have heard very conflicting things about "not loosing all the weight when you will put more back on & that the up and down of weight loss/gain could be worse than just holding a bit of it for now. I'm curious to know

bess26 responded:

for some reason my post didnt finish...
I'm curious to know any personal thoughts or experiences on this subject.Any help would be great!
Thanks! (sorry for typos...submitting from my IPhone)

Report This| Share this:For Mommy's: holding baby weight a yr later & thinking of another babbyfor some reason my post didnt finish... I'm curious to know any personal thoughts or experiences on this subject.Any help would be great! Thanks! (sorry for typos...submitting from my IPhone)

An_240941 replied to bess26's response:

I went down to my pre-pregnancy weight before my husband & I decided to try again. I wasn't comfortable going through another pregnancy still having the extra baby weight on & knowing I was just going to gain more & then it would be twice as hard to loose it all. So after I lost the weight we got pregnant again and now our youngest is almost 1 1/2 yrs old & again I'm almost back down to my original weight. But for me it was more about how I felt comfortable & it was very much a personal choice. After my second was about 6 months I dieted like crazy & worked out twice a day 5 days a week until I got down to where I am now. Once I started going back to school I became too busy to work out as much, so now I'm loosing weight slower. For me maintaining wasn't good enough, I had to loose it. I think you just need to figure out what your ok with though. If you feel ok with getting pregnant again soon & just working it all off later after you have your second then that's what you should do. You said you where an athlete and competitive, so I don't see why it would be hard to loose it later if you put your mind to it.

Report This| Share this:For Mommy's: holding baby weight a yr later & thinking of another babbyI went down to my pre-pregnancy weight before my husband & I decided to try again. I wasn't comfortable going through another pregnancy still having the extra baby weight on & knowing I was just going to gain more & then it would be twice as hard to loose it all. So after I lost the weight we got pregnant again and now our youngest is almost 1 1/2 yrs old & again I'm almost back down to my original weight. But for me it was more about how I felt comfortable & it was very much a personal choice. After my second was about 6 months I dieted like crazy & worked out twice a day 5 days a week until I got down to where I am now. Once I started going back to school I became too busy to work out as much, so now I'm loosing weight slower. For me maintaining wasn't good enough, I had to loose it. I think you just need to figure out what your ok with though. If you feel ok with getting pregnant again soon & just working it all off later after you have your second then that's what you should do. You said you where an athlete and competitive, so I don't see why it would be hard to loose it later if you put your mind to it.

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