Empty skin/loose fat postpartum 5weeks

Your body stretched out to carry a baby for 9 months, it won't bounce back in 5 weeks. It could take a year or two for the skin to tighten. Nothing you can do about the skin. I still have some and mine will probably never go away.

Hi there, congratulations on the birth of your little boy! Creating a new person is the most amazing thing! I have 4 children, the largest of whom weighed almost 9 pounds, who now range in age from 3 to 12. Unfortunately for most of us, our body doesn't go back to how it was pre-baby, no matter what the magazines and Hollywood celebrities tell us! Ideally we should try to be as fit and healthy as we can, and be proud of the fact that our body created a new human. For me, after one baby this was OK, but after 4 it was very tough, especially as in addition to the flabby skin (which hung over my caesarean scar), I could still fit two hands between my abdominal muscles and had a hernia that stuck out above my belly button - this resulted in me looking pregnant, and I even had a lady stand up for me on the train (took me a while to work out why, and then I was devastated!). I ended up having surgery about 2 years ago now - I had to have the hernia fixed anyway because it was painful, so I thought if I was having surgery, I might as well have my belly put back together, so I also had a "radical abdominoplasty" or tummy tuck. Now I won't lie, I felt like I'd been hit by a truck initially, I have a scar that goes almost 2/3 of the way around my body (although it's at the level of my caesarean scar, so no-one will see it), and it was very expensive, but I'm really glad I did it. I still need to lose some weight, but I no longer look pregnant, which has done wonders for my self esteem. If, after time and exercise, you still feel self-conscious about your body, then this may be an option for you, if you are realistic about the outcome. Just finish having all your babies first!

Congratulations on your new baby!

Whether your skin will snap back or not is genetic. My skin snapped back from my first baby (who was just about the size of your little one) at 33, but my second larger baby at 40? Nope.

At this point, though, I've lost 92 pounds and I have loose skin everywhere. You learn to deal.

I have four kids (ages from 1 to 9). I lost all the weight, but I too have some loose skin on my lower abdomen. I doubt it's going anywhere, barring surgery (most of it is the result of my first pregnancy). A lot of how well your skin recovers is, as already mentioned, genetic. Some of it is your age (younger skin tends to spring back better), how much weight you gained (going much over the recommended amount stretches skin more, resulting in more likelihood of loose skin later), and some has to do with the size of the baby and how you carried. IOW there's really not much you can do about it except lose the baby weight and wait and see if you are one of the lucky ones.

If it turns out that loose skin remains and you are unhappy with it, there are surgical options. However, you should wait until you are totally done having children (no sense in paying for an expensive tummy tuck only to get all stretched out again) and are at, or very close to, goal weight before perusing that option.