How much weight have you lost post partum?

acbfreire

LO is 12 days today. I weighed 143 lbs (ish) at the hospital. Today I weighed myself at home and I am around 125 lbs.

LO is nursing a LOT (growth spurt) and I am afraid I may be dropping weight too fast. How much have you lost so far and how old is your LO?

Samiantha101

That's awesome! When I came home from the hospital, I had lost 7 lbs. I was a bit disappointed; my baby weighed 8.3 lbs! Im now 5 days pp and have lost 14 lbs. I gained a total of 30, so I'm almost half way there. I cannot wait to start exercising again.

jess9802

I'm guessing somewhere around 20ish pounds; not sure how accurate my home scale is. I only gained 12 during pregnancy, so now my hope is to be able to continue to lose weight, since I was very overweight before getting pregnant.

mwitter80

I am a month pp. I gained 16lbs when pregnant. In the first 2 weeks I lost 30lbs. I got quite a lecture from my midwife. In the last 2 weeks I've lost another 8lbs. I am not dieting in anyway. It's crazy.

Zilelabelle

I'm 6 days pp and so far have lost 26lbs. I'm pretty happy about that because I gained 46 total. My stomach hurts too much to eat more than a few bites at a time, so that's probably why.

cchill01

I gained about 30-35lbs during pregnancy and have lost about 15-20lbs in the last week.   My goal is to be back to pre-pregnancy weight by 2 months pp.  Then, I'll probably spend the rest of the year trying to tighten and tone.

brideofscowboy

i gained 29lbs this time and have lost all but 6 lbs. I'm thrilled.

emberlee3

I am down 19 lbs since delivery.  I have about 3 lbs to go to hit my pre-pregnancy weight.  I eat healthy, but I've been having dessert every night and an extra snack or two, since I'm BFing.  A lot of what I lost was water weight.

BR

I was back to my pre-pregnancy weight by ten days pp.  I did nothing to make the weight come off, but I'll take it.  However, my stomach does not look flat like it used to.

Gismo123

I lost 20lbs....I'm lighter now than I was when I got pregnant

SugarhillHnA

I've lost 28lbs and only gained 18 while pregnant.  I'm 10 lbs below pre-pregnancy weight, but I was also "fluffy" to begin with and was on the gestational diabetes diet my last three months of pregnancy.  I'm also an EBF and DS is 2 1/2 weeks old.

drbethc

My LO is 20 days old...I lost 20 pounds right off the bat after he was born...I have 9 pounds to go until I'm back to pre-preg weight....

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that stretch marks don't appear now...I've been lucky not to have any yet... 

GracieBlue

12 days pp I have lost 27 lbs and still have 16 to go to get back to prepregnancy weight!

amberleeb

I gained 36 lbs during PG.  When I got home from the hospital I had only lost 6 lbs and my baby was 7 lbs.  Now 11 days PP I have lost 23 lbs.  Only 13 more to go!  The thing is I still look PG and no way I can get my size 6 normal pants on!

rissa_n

I'm 10 days PP and have lost about 13 lbs so far, so I have 19 to go to reach pre-pg weight. I'm struggling with how I look right now & avoid mirrors as much as I can.

JessieCupcake

My LO is just over 2 weeks old and I have yet to step on a scale. Lol I don't want to know!

Aimlc1281

DS will be 4 weeks old tomorrow.  I gained a total of 25 lbs.  As of today, I have 10 lbs to go.

Brandyjean30

II gained 13 lbs while pregnant and have lost 19. Monday I will be 4 weeks PP

chouli77

I lost 22 lbs in the first 13 days after LO arrived.

snicksnack

If you gained within the 25 to 35 range it is not uncommon to lose it fairly quickly since most of it is related to the baby.  With DD I gained 26 I was back to pp weight in less than a month and by the time at went back to work at 12 weeks I was 10 pounds below.  At that point I was a little worried because anything below 120 is too small for me.  The smallest I got was 118 and then after 6 months I was not burning as many calories breastfeeding and I got back to 120 and was 126 when I got preg. with DS at 19 months PP.  So far this time I am 9 days pp and I have lost 17 pounds and I gained 28

jeffnstef

no clue how it happened, but I dropped 18 pounds pretty much right away... I lost all I had gained plus a few more.

notfrancie

rissa_n:

I'm 10 days PP and have lost about 13 lbs so far, so I have 19 to go to reach pre-pg weight. I'm struggling with how I look right now & avoid mirrors as much as I can.

The mirror thing, exactly.  DH hid our scale and I have not gone looking for it... sigh. 

egsulaiman

its been almost 2 weeks, and I've lost 23lbs. 

venussapphire

I am only off of my prepregnancy weight by 15lbs, but I don't look like a weigh that much more...well except in the boobs

babyruth88

Im almost 3 weeks pp and ive lost 42lbs. Its all water weight gain. I gained almost 60lbs so about 18lbs to go. I started my diet yesterdY and am waiting to get released to hit the gym

GeekFantasy

Gained about 40 and have lost 20.  I'm EBF but not doing anything special otherwise.