Great post as I have also often wondered this. I will check this tomorrow morning by weighing myself before and after I have fed my son :-)

I recently had a Mirena Coil inserted and I am not sure if it was co-incidence but my weight went up slightly and then plateaued for two weeks. Touch wood, it seems to be dropping again now but I did wonder if it was the Mirena coil (My eating or activity levels had not changed.) I was on the mini-pill previously but it definitely made me gain weight (Water retention, I think.) It also made my skin break-out and gave me horrible headaches....but I know everyone is different.

Hi I am new to this gruop my name is denise abd I am 10 wks pp and already lost most my weight just trying to loose more abd get toned up I breastfeed so lost most cause of it what are exsersise u do to help tone up and loose weight from hips maybe ?

I find the whole birth control issue stressful!

Birth control pills make me crazy in a clinically depressed sort of way. I can't handle the hormones. I didn't need to take them for a long time because when I met my husband, he had had a vesectomy (he had two sons when he was 17 & 18 and married their mother, thought he was done having kids, divorced by 21....you know, tons of great decisoins made when he was still a child himself!). He had it reversed and we were blessed in that it was successful.

After my first son I had an IUD inserted that did not have any hormones on it. It was not covered by benefits & cost us over $400, which was a lot when raising 3 children, husband in school, & I was on mat leave. I didn't get my period back until my son was 10 months old . I had excessive bleeding that my OB determined was from the IUD irritating the lining of my uterus. I had it removed and fortunately it coincided with when we decided we were ready to have our second so birth control became a non issue.

Currently, however, I find the situation VERY stressful. I don't want to take the pill while nursing & I definetly do not think mentally it would be a good decision to risk becoming depressed while already having to deal with postpartum moods etc. My husband has an appointment in January (long wait here in South Western Ontario) to meet with the specialist regarding his second vesectomy (ya, that's right ladies! He must really love me eh?!). However, it is not going to be covered by OHIP this time. It cost us $5000 to have his last one reveresed. I am anticipating that it will be half the cost because he does not have to be put out & should not have a hospital stay....but I guess we will see.

In the mean time, I get freaked out every so often because you just never know....I really feel like there is no real win situation birth control wise while you are nursing.

As for the weight part....I definetly did not have any weight fall off me while nursing & had fluid retention until I was done in my fingers etc...so hoping to see a bit more drop off when I am done in 3 short short weeks

I'm at a compete loss as to what contraception to use from now on.

I can't use the pill as I get a permanent period.

Depo injection and Merina IUD are good as they remove the period completely except they make me gain weight not loose it! Also the Merina caused me to miscarry when I got it removed to ttc before I succeeded getting pregnant with mister 3 weeks.

Condoms for obvious reasons are not 100% preventative of pregnancy.

So not sure what else is out there that I can use?