how long after your baby did your body go back to normal?

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Hey ladies! So I'm having my first baby this Tuesday! I am having a c section as baby is breech! The last week has been fairly hard I must say! My feet have swollen so fat I actually look like the marshmallow man from ghostbusters 😂 it hurts to walk and my legs are triple the size they use to be, my nose has swollen and so has my face and I just don't feel attractive at all! I know it's all water retention etc, but I just don't feel like myself anymore and I can't wait to feel light and back to my normal self. My question is, how long after your baby was born did it take you ladies until you felt lighter or noticed the heavyness/weight start to feel lighter?! Taking 5 minutes to get off the couch is really getting me down I must say! 😂

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First please make sure you are properly hydrated and have cut salt out of your diet....that much swelling isn't normal
It took you 9 months to grow a baby, expect it to take that long to fully recover

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Never

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Within 3-4 weeks

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I had a c section and a month later I was already at my pre pregnancy weight ! Just eating right and after the doctor gave me ok I went back to the gym to make my skin tight ! But it has a lot to do with genetics,how active you were pre pregnancy, your diet, lifestyle etc ... some people take 1 month some never go back to normal 😬

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At 2 weeks pp my swelling was gone and I could fit into my prepregnancy clothing. After that, I stopped tracking / weighing myself. By 6 weeks pp I was 13 lbs under my prepregnancy weight and maintained that until getting pregnant with the baby I'm carrying now. Breastfeeding seemed to be a major aid in losing the baby lbs for me.

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Basically you should focus on enjoying your life and creating your village so you're able to thrive in Motherhood. There are a ton of factors as to how quickly you may recover. Most people find a "new normal" and learn to live in that place.

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A 2012 University of Salford study, conducted by Dr Julie Wray, interviewed women during their first year post birth and concluded that women need a year to recover both physically and emotionally after child-birth. Relationships, personal self-worth, finances and health are all put through the mill in the first 12 months.

It can take up to two years for your abdominals to recover. Three big factors that can prevent this recovery, causing an abdominal distention are: Having two babies within two years (or falling pregnant within two years of the last pregnancy); gaining a large amount of weight during pregnancy; or a C-section (C-sections can cause internal scarring or adhesions which can add to abdominal distention).

Complications like diastasis recti (abdominal separation), adhesions, post stitches pain or pelvic floor dysfunction (such as prolapse) can cause problems well beyond two years.

Pregnancy hormones like relaxin stay in your body until up to four months after you finish breast feeding. This means any associated symptoms, such as reduced stability in your pelvis and joints, also linger for this amount of time.

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I had a really rough pregnancy and a really rough birth so I feel like I was given an easy postpartum recovery.  I'm 6 weeks postpartum now and 3lbs off from pre pregnancy weight without dieting or exercising. I think a lot of that has to do with genetics and also that I was skinny prior to getting pregnant and also am still sort of young at 21. Good luck God bless you and your baby! 😊

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I didn't have a C-section but I had lost most of the water weight by the end of a week pp. I lost the baby weight quickly but still have belly pudge at 6 weeks. I'm a rare case as far as recovery I think, though

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