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mamastich
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Single mama - beautiful baby - learning to live
When did your stomach go back to normal?
mamastich
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Im almost 7 months out and its summer and my stomach still screams "I just had a baby".. Ive lost all my baby weight but that pooch is stubborn. When were you close to normal?
Single mama - beautiful baby - learning to liveThis discussion has been closed.
Re: When did your stomach go back to normal?
Everyone is different but I had DS 5 years ago and while my stomach shrunk and it looked flat under clothes I still have that pooch and excess skin. I worked out, dieted, used creams, everything I could think of and it never went away completely. After this baby I'm getting my tubes tied and a tummy tuck because my body apparently doesn't bounce back well at all. Everyone is different though and some women I know go back to prepregnancy tummy within a year. But if it doesn't happen for you just know it is normal for your body to just be stubborn. It sucks and I hope yours isn't like mine!!
I will add that DS was just over 10lbs so I think maybe my skin got stretched WAY too much, maybe it had nothing to do with the c-section.
Even after losing baby weight +10lb my belly still didn't look the same. Partially because when I was pg my DS sat mostly on my left side so that side of my belly was stretched farther. THEN when they did the c/s the OB didn't make a big enough incision so they extended it on the left to get the baby out. Soooooo when I look @ my belly in the mirror you can see that the scar on the right half is perfect and sags down and to the left a little. There is scar tissue on the left side and a spot the size of like maybe a deck of cards that is numb.
All that being said I wore a tankini last summer that I got from Old Navy and it didn't look terrible. Between the stretchies and the flab there was no way on God's green Earth that I'd be caught in a bikini and I wasn't comfortable with the way my belly looked to even wear a one piece. The tankini hit just the right places to create an optical illusion that my belly wasn't a total trainwreck, lol!
Wait, it's supposed to go back to normal?
JK. Seriously though 7 months out and it's still as flabby as it was at a month PP. The c/s hangover doesn't help either. I lost weight while I was pregnant and have lost about 37 more lbs since and I still have the gut.