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Did your stomach area go back to normal after pregnancy?
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Anonymous
| I was a little overweight prior to getting pregnant. Once DC turned 1 I really started to put an effort into loosing the left over baby weight and then some. Since Sept 1st I have lost 18 lbs, my goal is 40 lbs total. Since loosing some of the fat on my stomach area it is starting to look a little saggy, I still have a way to go to where it would look like a normal thinner stomach, but I am wondering if that extra skin/baggy look is going to go away? Does it just take time and a lot of ab work? Or is it here to stay? |
Anonymous
| tummy tuck |
Anonymous
| Yep - mine looks like crepe paper. And so do all my friends, no matter how in shape they are. If you truly care, I think surgery might be the only legit answer. |
Anonymous
| Where the skin has stretched to the max, I think there is always going to be some puckering. Just as obese people who have lost weight have massive amounts of leftover stretched out skin that they must have removed surgically. |
Anonymous
| I'm in pretty good shape and have lost all the weight, and my stomach looks normal when I'm standing. When I sit, I can see puckering, especially down near my hip creases and above my belly button, but I doubt anyone else would notice. When I bend over and am not sucking in my abs, though, there is definitely some sagging. I agree with PP - there is only so much that can be done. I've seen exercise instructors at my gym who are incredibly lean and in shape, but they have some puckering and sagging around their bellies that tell me that they've had kids. |
Anonymous
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I think it depends on your body. I bounced back from my first and second kids with no noticeable pooches or loose skin. With my third (and last) at 38, I have a little loose skin that shows when I wear low-rise jeans, worse when I'm bloated.
It's my first place I gain, and the last place I lose weight too. Right now, I need to lose about 5 lbs and it's pretty much all on my stomach and butt. When I'm feeling really bad about it, I can't help poking that loose cat-belly skin which only serves to bum me out even more... |
Anonymous
| I have the same experience as 15:07. When I'm standing, everything is fine. When I bend over, it is almost like the skin on my stomach isn't attached to my body and it sags away from my muscles. I lost all the baby weight and then some and I definitely fit back into all my pre-pregnancy clothes and my stomach LOOKS flat when I am standing. But when I sit, it is a bit flooby looking. It is strange because before I had kids, even at 5 lbs heavier than this my stomach was never flooby looking. |
Anonymous
| I had twins and lost the weight rather quickly and now weigh less than I did before- totally not bragging at all- because my stomach is a mess... I am thinking the only option is a tummy tuck. It just won't go back... It is sad but true. |
Anonymous
OP here, thanks for all your depressing responses. Just kidding  Well add this to the list of shit no one tells you about having a kid. How the hell do people like Hedi Klum walk the runway in their bra and underware 5 weeks after having a baby? At least I know I am not alone.
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Anonymous
| I am finally w/in 2 lbs. of my pre-pregnancy weight, but my stomach still has 5 extra inches and a big pooch that looks like I'm working on baby #2. None of my professional clothes fit yet in my waist (or hips, for that matter). Definitely sucks! |
Anonymous
I hear ya! Hollywood is so focused on babies right now, you would think that celebrities invented motherhood. And just about every starlet who gives birth is shown just weeks later at pre-pregnancy weight. I'm a petite, small-boned person and after having kids I still have a major pooch that won't go away. And to make matters worse, my tummy is the ONLY place I gain weight so I constantly look pregnant years after the fact and have a really hard time finding clothes that fit. Sigh. |
Anonymous
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"How the hell do people like Hedi Klum walk the runway in their bra and underware 5 weeks after having a baby?"
I think being that tall really helps - when tall women are pregnant, their bellies don't expand out as much because there is so much room for the baby vertically. I have a friend who is 5 inches taller than I am, and her tummy never got very big even though she went full term. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, my SIL is 6 ft. and only had one kid. She never had a tummy tuck b/c she never needed it...she has washboard abs again (sigh). |
Anonymous
| i hate them |
Anonymous
| Try wearing Spanks. It pushes everything in. I wear them sometimes to work w/ some of my pants that are still a little tight (after a baby 3 years ago). I'm also trying to lose weight, but the tummy area is not really budging. Can't do much with lose skin except tummy tuck. My friend had it done after 2 kids, looks great, was a lot of recovery and $$. I'm thinking after kid #2 I want a tummy tuck - it can be my "push present" LOL |