How long does bump take to deflate?
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Topic: How long does bump take to deflate?
Posted By: amme_eilyk
Subject: How long does bump take to deflate?
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 7:46pm
| Just doing a wardrobe sort out and wondering how long it takes for baby bump to deflate post birth. i.e. I'm due start of jan is it worth just packing all my summer clothes that no longer fit until the end of next year? or put them somewhere I can get them later in the year. |
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Posted By: Limochick
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 7:57pm
Honestly Amme some people it takes a week where as other people (like me) it can take alot longer  -------------  
 
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Posted By: Chickoin
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:00pm
Ditto that! Took me about a year, seems to take everyone else I know only a few days  -------------   
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:09pm
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Rule of thumb is you'll look about 6 months pg immediately after birth, and then how fast it goes from there varies for different people. I've still got more of a tum that I did before and I've been BF 2-hourly for 9 months. Other people in my due-in thread were back in pre-preg clothes within 6 weeks. Can you put them somewhere that they won't taunt you, but you can get them out if need be? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: tishy
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:25pm
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Also you might get back to the same size but your body shape could change.
Even though I'm back to the same size, I found a lot of clothes didn't sit right on me post-baby due to boobies changing and my bum/hips have changed shape also. Not to mention the saggy tummy 
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Posted By: jano1
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:32pm
| I had DD in Feb and didn't wear any of my summer clothes until the following year. It took a while to drop the extra weight but my breasts doubled/tripled in size and I couldn't fit any of my tops. I didn't mind too much and ended up wearing breast feeding singlets a lot. |
Posted By: monikah
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 8:39pm
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yea sorry its real different. i came home 9 hours after giving birth wearing the same jeans ive been wearing since i was 20 ------------- 
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Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 9:07pm
It took me a while to go back to 'normal' - about 9 months! But even just before getting pg this time (when I was smaller than I was pre-first pregnancy), everything was a different shape - my hips are never going to shrink back to pre-pg shape! So some of the clothes may never fit quite the same again 
FX that won't happen - and I have to say friends that had their babies younger (early 20's rather than 30's) tended to return back to normal more quickly, so hopefully that's the case for you too! -------------  
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Posted By: Delli
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 9:26pm
Keep them around I say. Being due in early Jan means you still have a couple of months of summer left  I was back in pre-preg tops and pants within a week but not my super tight jeans until 2-3 weeks . But yeah, as everyone says - it's different for different people (and different pregnancies! I hope this bump disappears as fast after birth!).------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 9:32pm
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I went back to my pre preg size a week after having my CS's. the first day or so I still had a bit of a swollen tummy, but then after a few days to a week I was back to my normal size.
Everyones different though, hope ya bumpy goes fast for ya :) ------------- |
Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 9:40pm
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i didnt have a baby bump about 3 days after my CS.... but then again ive still got more than i went into my pregnancy with lol. dresses are good for covereing up anything thats left. i would at the very least keep your summer dresses out
HTH |
Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 27 September 2010 at 10:01pm
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Took me about 13months to look semi-normal after Jake, and I'm still way fatter than pre-preg after Morgan (shes almost 15 months) so I guess it depends on how much weight you gain and how quickly you lose it .... I still have about 6-7kgs to lose, so won't be in my normal clothes for a while yet! ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 9:19am
| Well 4 years later .......hmmm. No really it is different for everyone. My niece came out of the maternity ward in her pre pregnancy jeans. Fully zipped. For me I don't think I have ever got back in them. |
Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 10:25am
My loose floaty tops fit fine within a few weeks, but little things like tank tops and singlets etc I had to finally admit defeat a year later (Ironically it was only a week or 2 before finding out I was preg again) cos my boobs are too big for them and they either fall out the top, or hike it up at the front exposing my c-section pouch 
My jeans on the other hand, i was fitting back into them within 3 months (they would have fit me size-wise earlier, it was more a case of how they sat on my scar) ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: RedHeadDuck
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 11:31am
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My belly went down pretty quickly, it amazed everyone even my midwife, but I am a dancer and have/had pretty strong tummy muscles (didn't have the smallest of bumps until I was like 25 weeks if not more)
I'm now wearing pre-preg jeans, but just can't do them up! Can get the zip done up, but not the button so I do them up with a hair tie :P BUT I hadn't worn these jeans for about 3 years before I got pregnant as I was too fat for them! (I kept them as they were pretty much brand new!) All my tops etc fit fine, But I wear a lot of just plain long sleeve tops, tshirts, singlets, vests, nothing too fancy so most of it is kinda stretchy material IYKWIM? I do still have a muffin roll (love handles) and a bit of a flap of tummy that BFing hasn't gotten rid of... Should really start working on that.... |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 11:52am
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Nine months on nine months off ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 1:42pm
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i think that is the most frustrating thing about pregnancy is that it is different for everyone and not predictable (except for the fact that eventually a baby appears).
so far I havent actually put on any weight it is just my bump and mega boobs that are making my clothes not fit. I am a kg lighter than my prepregnancy weight atm. so fingers crossed I don't put on tons in the next 3.5months. |
Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 8:08pm
Ditto. -------------   
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monikah wrote:Posted By: julz85
Date Posted: 28 September 2010 at 11:04pm
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keep them i reakon , i think its totaly different for every person , for me i gained 15kg in pregnancy (55kg-70kg) lost 11kg's the first week and by 3 weeks post birth weighed less than before i got pregnant (52kg) . I definatly think breastfeeding is what did it for me . ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: HuntersMama
Date Posted: 29 September 2010 at 7:19pm
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My DS was born in late Jan and I made do with dresses and long tops all thru summer. My bump deflated after a few weeks, but ive still got a lil tum ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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