Pregnancy-How many weeks after delivery did you lose weight

Probably about 6 weeks to lose most of it (about 40 lbs). I breastfed, though, so it didn't require any effort.

I didn't breast feed. Tried it, got frustrated which interfered with bonding with my daughter and interfered with her actually eating.

Pumped for 3 months and fed her both formula and breast milk. And than happily switched to formula all the time.

My daughter is happy, very healthy, smart and so loved. not because of what I fed her as a baby but because of the love and care and respect I show her each and every day.

Breast feeding is not the end all be all (though i guess for some it is and i guess for them that's okay). No one should make anyone else feel like an incompetent, selfish mother especially because they choose not to breast feed.

It took me about 4 months to lose the baby weight with my second child. After my first child, I was down to LOWER than my pre pregnancy weight at around 5 weeks post partum. I did lose a lot of weight at the beginning of that pregnancy, though.

I'm now 5.5 months post partum and am about 3 lbs lower than my pre pregnancy weight. I hope to keep losing. I gained a lot of excess weight in my late teens/early 20s that I'm now trying to lose. I haven't been this small in 10 years and it feels awesome lol

To the one that said breastfeeding is a natural birth control, THINK AGAIN! Old wives tale and there are lots of siblings 9 or 10 months apart to prove it!

LOL. I have 8 kids. Breastfeeding is NOT birth control!! :laugh:

I had my son 3 weeks ago and have already lost the 25 pounds that I gained during pregnancy.

I am now dropping additional pounds and can't tell if it is still pregnancy weight coming off, or if it is my low calories that I've been consuming.

Don't get me wrong I am happy for weight loss either way!, but I was just wondering when everyone else stopped losing pregnancy weight???

I'm sure it is a combination of both and different for everyone, but I just want to know after how many weeks my body will stop losing pregnancy weight and start losing fat?

Edit: I am not breastfeeding, only formula.

I'll get the studies linking early autism and formula in non breastfed children...brb.


Breast milk is the most important nutrient dense food the baby can eat for the first 16-18 months of its life.
3 weeks and on formula?!
also the hormonal cascade you get from it ensures your health and longevity.
Genetically we are here to procreate the human race so youve popped a kid out but you sholdnt stop at that.

I'll get the studies for you and post but i'm staying out of this conversation.
Selfish moms piss me off.

I'm sorry nobody breast fed you. Me neither. Let's be sad and autistic together.

I'll get the studies linking early autism and formula in non breastfed children...brb.


Breast milk is the most important nutrient dense food the baby can eat for the first 16-18 months of its life.
3 weeks and on formula?!
also the hormonal cascade you get from it ensures your health and longevity.
Genetically we are here to procreate the human race so youve popped a kid out but you sholdnt stop at that.

I'll get the studies for you and post but i'm staying out of this conversation.
Selfish moms piss me off.

"Staying out of the conversation," I don't think it means what you think it means

I had my son 3 weeks ago and have already lost the 25 pounds that I gained during pregnancy.

I am now dropping additional pounds and can't tell if it is still pregnancy weight coming off, or if it is my low calories that I've been consuming.

Don't get me wrong I am happy for weight loss either way!, but I was just wondering when everyone else stopped losing pregnancy weight???

I'm sure it is a combination of both and different for everyone, but I just want to know after how many weeks my body will stop losing pregnancy weight and start losing fat?

Edit: I am not breastfeeding, only formula.

I'll get the studies linking early autism and formula in non breastfed children...brb.


Breast milk is the most important nutrient dense food the baby can eat for the first 16-18 months of its life.
3 weeks and on formula?!
also the hormonal cascade you get from it ensures your health and longevity.
Genetically we are here to procreate the human race so youve popped a kid out but you sholdnt stop at that.

I'll get the studies for you and post but i'm staying out of this conversation.
Selfish moms piss me off.

This.

did someone hack your account Dan?

I tend to lose all my pregnancy weight in the first 2 weeks but then I have supply problems with my milk so I try to eat more and my weight stays fairly steady until I completely stop feeding then I usually start gaining and feel like I have to start tackling the bulge. I stopped feeding my youngest at 5 months and just ballooned for the next 5 months and nothing I did seemed to make any difference until I joined MFP and started really counting the calories.

I am truly upset that this post has taken this route.

I, like this poster above, have the same problem with not producing enough milk as ONE of the reasons I cannot breastfeed. When I had my daughter, she spent 2 nights in the hospital a couple weeks after having her because of weight loss! I too was told that I don't produce enough, and I have to give formula. Even pumping and taking pills to help produce more milk I was barely getting any on each side. I worked closely with several lactation consultants for several weeks.

In addition, I have a health condition which requires me to be on medication. The medication is not safe for breastfeeding because it is passed through the milk! There are no other medications in the drug category I need that are considered safe for baby!

So, NO, I am not being selfish, I have to do what is best for me and my family. I was already upset that I couldn't breastfeed and don't need a judgmental *kitten* that doesn't know all the facts making me feel worse about my decision.

Breastfeeding is not for everyone. My mom had to breastfeed me early on because of not producing enough...as well as my grandma with all 7 of her children. We all turned out just fine, college educated and productive members of society...more than I can say for you.

good for you for trying to breastfeed and then for finding what worked best for your baby. You keep doing what works for your family! I'm glad we are not all a like (or we might all be like Dan and what a sad world that would be!!)

Breast milk is the most important nutrient dense food the baby can eat for the first 16-18 months of its life.
3 weeks and on formula?!
also the hormonal cascade you get from it ensures your health and longevity.
Genetically we are here to procreate the human race so youve popped a kid out but you sholdnt stop at that.

I'll get the studies for you and post but i'm staying out of this conversation.
Selfish moms piss me off.

I breastfed my son for two years.

I've been to La Leche League meetings every month for the past 4 years.

Two of my sisters have been LLL leaders.

I have nursed out in the open, without covers, everywhere from the Thanksgiving table to restaurants to Target.

I am as boob-friendly as they come.


However, I would not deign to judge any mom who bottle-feeds instead of nursing, and *I* feel like I actually have the right to an opinion.

You, sir, do not.

Let me know when you have a vagina, boobs, and have actually birthed someone.

Edited to add:

OP, I'm sorry that that a$$hat joined in your thread. Post-partum is SUCH an emotional time anyway - the last thing you need is someone being a jerk!

I'm not sure if my experience is anything to go by, since I did nurse both my kids and so my recovery was a bit different. But I will tell you that you should take it easy on yourself. How quickly you lose your weight is dependent on so many variables - how much you gained, how sleep-deprived you are (makes it so much harder, and OF COURSE you are sleep-deprived!), whether you had a c-section or not, etc. etc. I wouldn't even think about it for quite a while yet. Just focus on healing from delivery, taking care of your baby, and nourishing yourself with good food. The weight-loss will come in time.

To the breast is best preacher.....Information on the best way to feed a baby changes all the time. When my brother was born in the 70's my mother was told by medical professionals that she must give him formula if she wanted to give him all the nutrients to grow properly. When I was born in the 80's medical professionals advised her to breast feed me in order to give me the best start. As long as a baby is fed and happy, that is all that matters and it not your place to say whether the OPs feeding plan is right or wrong.

Some mothers also do not produce enough milk no matter how hard they try. I only managed to feed one of my children for 2 weeks before my supply disappeared. Should I have let him starve? I think not.

There are medications that I could have tried but these cross over into the breast milk and their long term affects are unknown. Would that have been better for my baby? I think not.

Another of my children nearly ended up in hospital due to my poor supply and the fact that we were unable to get her to drink from a bottle and we had to resort to spoon feeding until she was stronger and more used to the feel of a bottle. Should I persisted with breast is best and continued to let her deteriorate? Again I think not

To be honest breast feeding my babies was so stressful for both myself and them that I probably should never have bothered but I had people like you breathing down my neck and because of that I and my children suffered unnecessarily.

I'll get the studies linking early autism and formula in non breastfed children...brb.


Breast milk is the most important nutrient dense food the baby can eat for the first 16-18 months of its life.
3 weeks and on formula?!
also the hormonal cascade you get from it ensures your health and longevity.
Genetically we are here to procreate the human race so youve popped a kid out but you sholdnt stop at that.

I'll get the studies for you and post but i'm staying out of this conversation.
Selfish moms piss me off.

Let it be known that Dan does not have kids. Probably wont either. So....his "experience" is truly none.

Wow. That makes it worse.

That's weird... 3 pages into a post about weight loss after pregnancy and there are already 3 women who "could not produce enough milk" to feed their babies? That seems like a lot. Like percentage wise.

Self selected audience would be my guess about that. People who read the jerk post and could not produce milk were probably the most offended of all, thus making them more likely to post instead of lurk and increasing the percentage of 'could not produce' posters to that above the general female population.

/shug, just a theory

Edit: to add clarity

I had my son 3 weeks ago and have already lost the 25 pounds that I gained during pregnancy.

I am now dropping additional pounds and can't tell if it is still pregnancy weight coming off, or if it is my low calories that I've been consuming.

Don't get me wrong I am happy for weight loss either way!, but I was just wondering when everyone else stopped losing pregnancy weight???

I'm sure it is a combination of both and different for everyone, but I just want to know after how many weeks my body will stop losing pregnancy weight and start losing fat?

Edit: I am not breastfeeding, only formula.

I'll get the studies linking early autism and formula in non breastfed children...brb.


Breast milk is the most important nutrient dense food the baby can eat for the first 16-18 months of its life.
3 weeks and on formula?!
also the hormonal cascade you get from it ensures your health and longevity.
Genetically we are here to procreate the human race so youve popped a kid out but you sholdnt stop at that.

I'll get the studies for you and post but i'm staying out of this conversation.
Selfish moms piss me off.

Troll.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to chastise the op for not breastfeeding. When will people realize that those that formula feed aren't necessarily doing that by choice?? And if they are, so what? Babies thrive just as well off of formula as they do with breastfeeding.

Studies on autism and formula feeding are correlative and do not show that formula feeding will cause autism in children. Some of those studies are not blind studies and lend themselves to a significant amount of experimenter bias. There was even one based on self-report from an internet survey. Very reliable.

Breast may be best, but it does not give you the right to shame women who don't breastfeed.

To the Op, I similarly lost about 25 pounds two weeks after I gave birth 2/14 of this year and then I was at a stand still. The weight is coming off slowly but surely but I know that eventually, I'll be back to my pre-pregnancy weight and then some.