Rapid Weight Loss Post Partum?

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Do you know of any moms, especially overweight ones, who lost like 30+ pounds in the couple of weeks after giving birth and their weight just keeps going down in spite of not trying to lose it?

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*waves* I just had my third baby 4 months ago. I could wear my pre pregnancy jeans when I got home. I came home 5 days PP after a c-section. When I was pregnant I gained 22lbs, at 2 weeks PP I lost 34lbs.

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Any new mom going through that needs to let her doc know ASAP. It might be nothing more than a rapid, but normal, weight loss. It could also be something more serious like diabetes or another endocrine problem.

She owes it to her new baby and all the others who care about her--not to mention, herself--to get this checked out right away.

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Do you know of any moms, especially overweight ones, who lost like 30+ pounds in the couple of weeks after giving birth and their weight just keeps going down in spite of not trying to lose it?

It was 15 years ago, but I was 31 lbs. down at my 6 week PP appointment. Nothing was amiss, I was nursing and getting plenty of calories; the weight just came off quick and easy. The only time in my entire life it's done so, by the way.

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I had a full blood work up 6 weeks PP. I am perfectly healthy!;)

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I had a full blood work up 6 weeks PP. I am perfectly healthy!;)

Same here. My son is 9 weeks old and I'm down 50 pounds. Docs says rverything is A-OK.

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i lost 40 lbs within 3 weeks after having my daughter,i ended up staying in the hospital 12 days after the c-section and went home only to return a week later for another postpartum problem and then once i went home i regained to 40 lbs over a couple of months b/c i was eating as if i was still pregnant. now im on medifast (its tough) but the weight is coming off. i only wish i had of done this sooner

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I lost 22lbs immediately after delivery but since then,i've been standstill,i've stopped losing cos of overeating in as much as that i am nursing thou not exclusively.If you are losing weight like that,i dont think it is healthy.You must have to eat balanced diet for your baby if you are nursing and again delivery is not an easy thing and you lost some nutrients from ur body,losing weight as rapidly as that can be dangerous even if you think that blood work was done and nothing is wrong with you.You gained that weight for 9months so losing it so rapidly could set up some probs in other for negative feedback mechanism/equilibrum to take place.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

After my first four babies, I dropped anywhere from 50 to 80 pounds within a couple of months (yes, I was seriously overweight then, too). I didn't have a single thing wrong with me, I just lost weight very quickly after childbirth.

Then, after the fifth was born, I lost only about 35 pounds---just the weight I'd put on during my pregnancy plus a few more---but I was 33, and it just didn't come off like it did when I was younger. In fact, not only did those pounds come back within a year, they brought FRIENDS!!:devil:

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Hey MM, when're you due, anyway? It's soon, isn't it?

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Specializes in ER OB NICU.

I had 5 children, and always gained under 10 pounds for the entire pregnancy, even though I did not restrict myself, in fact even indulged most times. The only time I had rapid weight gain was 22pounds in3 days, with PIH, placenta abruption, and delivery at 33 weeks. I lost that weight funny, too. I had only gain 7 pounds prior to the fluid gain, and then after my BP stayed up for awhile, and all of sudden about 2-3 weeks post op, I lost 8 pounds a day for 2 - 3 days.

But, although I only gained less than 10 pounds, I never really lost alot more post partum, either , even though totally nursing infants. My last baby they kept asking me IF I was ever going to gain weight, and then in the next breath telling me my baby (at 7 months) was estimated to weigh over 11 pounds at birth. She weight 8 # 3 oz at 38 weeks. I lost 17 pounds, and had gaind 9 . Rapid weight losses are often fluid, or an overweight mom whose metaloblism changed, or the lucky ones who just lose easily post partum.

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