How long did it take you to lose the baby weight?

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The last one took three years and semaglutide, but I'm now back to my high school weight and maintaining it.

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At some point you can't blame pregnancy for that, PP.

At which point? Anyway, I weigh less now than pre-baby. Having a baby messed up my thyroid and it took forever to figure out medically.

That's more of a thyroid issue then.

This kind of thing is so common though. Don’t make new moms feel bad if the weight doesn’t “fall off.” It’s so normal to have a hard time losing weight or for it to take a long time to lose.

Sure, it's just 15 years is far away from being a new mom. No one is shaming new moms by pointing out that it likely was not pregnancy related after the first few years

Women need to stop blaming their pregnancies for their weight. My mom was always obese and blamed her pregnancy with me. As a kid I really thought I was responsible or that it would happen to me too. I still feel that blame decades later even when I know it wasn't my fault.

Kids misunderstand jokes all the time, it doesn’t mean people should stop making jokes. My mom joked that I came from the mailman when I was little because I don’t look like either parent. If I briefly looked with curiosity at the mailman when I was 5, it’s not lifelong trauma. I just didn’t understand birds and bees and had more of a stork perception. The fact you carry guilt means you need therapy, not that women can’t be funny without traumatizing kids.

My mom went into the hospital and a nurse asked her why her belly was so big compared to the rest of her. She said pregnancy. Her youngest child was 37. I thought it was hilarious. She was smaller in the intervening years, but it’s a good way to get people to stop asking dumb questions.

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Anonymous wrote:15 years

At some point you can't blame pregnancy for that, PP.

At which point? Anyway, I weigh less now than pre-baby. Having a baby messed up my thyroid and it took forever to figure out medically.

That's more of a thyroid issue then.

This kind of thing is so common though. Don’t make new moms feel bad if the weight doesn’t “fall off.” It’s so normal to have a hard time losing weight or for it to take a long time to lose.

Sure, it's just 15 years is far away from being a new mom. No one is shaming new moms by pointing out that it likely was not pregnancy related after the first few years

Women need to stop blaming their pregnancies for their weight. My mom was always obese and blamed her pregnancy with me. As a kid I really thought I was responsible or that it would happen to me too. I still feel that blame decades later even when I know it wasn't my fault.

Kids misunderstand jokes all the time, it doesn’t mean people should stop making jokes. My mom joked that I came from the mailman when I was little because I don’t look like either parent. If I briefly looked with curiosity at the mailman when I was 5, it’s not lifelong trauma. I just didn’t understand birds and bees and had more of a stork perception. The fact you carry guilt means you need therapy, not that women can’t be funny without traumatizing kids.

The question of why you found that funny is what really needs to be answered. What on earth would be humorous, by any standard at all, about someone saying that it took them 15 years to lose weight (on a relatively serious post) or that kids caused their weight gain? Like what social affliction do you have where youre genuinely chuckling at the idea of pregnancy weight loss? I swear some of you guys just have really horrific social skills and then get upset when your kids wont enable that and pretend your joke is hilarious when you known damn well no one else in your life finds you funny.

DP but wow you need a vacation. Calm down cowboy.

+1 what a weird response

[Anonymous]

I started at 160 and ended up around 190 before giving birth. Lost most of it within weeks and the last 10 lbs within 6 months. I’m not an active person and gave birth at 39. I was really surprised that I could get back to my original weight. I think it was a combo of not gaining too much weight during pregnancy and the fact that I was so tired and stressed that I didn’t eat a lot postpartum.

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Never - still carrying an extra 20 pounds, and my youngest is 18

[Anonymous]

OP should stop reading this thread. No good will come of it.