Losing weight after pregnancy

[toddles]

i3mum:

2) Yes, I breast feed fully, & I expressed 1 litre of milk everyday for 1st pregnancy. Breast feeding really helps alot. 2nd pregnancy, I expressed 2 litres a day which I really lost alot of weight (even thinner than before, and my colleagues & friends all got a shock).

That is a lot of milk!! WOW really envious of your supply. your babies are so fortunate. what do you attribute it to? genetics? special soups? enough rest?

I could only *very barely* express 90ml every 3 hours for the first 2.5 months, but after that managed to latch baby so didn't know how much she 'extracted' till 20 months when i stopped.

[buds]

toddles:

That is a lot of milk!! WOW really envious of your supply. your babies are so fortunate. what do you attribute it to? genetics? special soups? enough rest?

Naah.. dun think it's genetics, toddles hun. It cud be but guess in my case
can't be cos my mumsie barely had any within the week and gave up. Too
painful.

toddles:

I could only *very barely* express 90ml every 3 hours for the first 2.5 months, but after that managed to latch baby so didn't know how much she 'extracted' till 20 months when i stopped.

Yup, when the babies get buffet 24-7, dunno how much...
Just know after that the balloons are deflated like empty socks.

i3mum:

Yes, I breast feed fully, & I expressed 1 litre of milk everyday for 1st pregnancy. Breast feeding really helps alot. 2nd pregnancy, I expressed 2 litres a day which I really lost alot of weight (even thinner than before, and my colleagues & friends all got a shock).

Me too i3mum! :hi5: My brothers called exclaimed once... Holy cow! :laugh:

I'm either on the machine expressing (i use medela electric : painless & fast)
or he can see bottles and bottles of expressed milk in the freezer. :lol:

I get 300mls to 400mls per expression. That's for every 3 hour intervals.
A nurse friend said if we could claim milk $ from our husbands (cos they
don't need to buy... :politebleah:) we would be rich. Just multiply the # of
litres in a month by the most expensive brand you'd buy if you didn't have
milk to express/feed to begin with. :preen:

Aniwaes, mum's milk is supposed to be freshest and priceless. :love:

For my first pregnancy, i went back on my first day at work weighing only
45kg. 5kg less than my pre-wedding days.. :boogie: Now..... :idea: ... Don't
ANYONE dare ask! :nunchuk:

Hope to beat that for after my #3.

:xedfingers:

[schweppes]

autumnbronze:

... I also tried Schweppes' baked sweet potato chips recipe. They are really yummy, esp if you can get those sweet potatos from Indonesia.

:hi5: :hi5:

autumnbronze:

We can even create a 'Lets Lose Weight' thread to cheer each other and share recipes and restaurants that can accomodate your 'special requests' during meal ordering.

Any takers?

Count me in!! Started eating healthily this year and signed up for exercise classes at Amore, so am making gradual progress. I think I lost about 3 kg so far.

:rahrah: Yup, this \"Let's Lose Weight\" thread sounds like a great idea!! We need to cheer us fellow sistas on :rahrah:

[tree nymph]

buds:

toddles:

That is a lot of milk!! WOW really envious of your supply. your babies are so fortunate. what do you attribute it to? genetics? special soups? enough rest?

Naah.. dun think it's genetics, toddles hun. It cud be but guess in my case
can't be cos my mumsie barely had any within the week and gave up. Too
painful.

I beg to differ on this.

I actually think its your own body structure. Cos i know many mothers, no matter what they do, they just can't get enough supply. Of course, if you have supplies to begin with and don't wanna give, the supply will drop too.

[tree nymph]

LKVM:

Is it safe to use?

yes it is. must be prescribed and monitored by the doc.

[buds]

duriz:

mummyjoyce:

I gained 20 KG during my 1st pregnacy; pregnant again when 1st DD was only 9 mths :oops:

No time to lose weight!!! :!:

Wow! Must have been tough on your body. Not much time to recover from the first pregnancy yet, and have to look after your DD.

Ohhh but you must know duriz, mummyjoyce is now one hawt momma.
40kg oni leh.. envy.. envy.. Losing the weight, fats and trying to regain
figure is one thing... being healthy during the process is also another.

[toddles]

buds:

toddles:

That is a lot of milk!! WOW really envious of your supply. your babies are so fortunate. what do you attribute it to? genetics? special soups? enough rest?

Naah.. dun think it's genetics, toddles hun. It cud be but guess in my case
can't be cos my mumsie barely had any within the week and gave up. Too
painful.

My mummy also got mastisis in the first week and gave up. I got mastisis 5 times and ploughed thru, by God's grace!

[buds]

My mumsie didn get mastitis at all.

She was just one dry well. :lol:
That's why she gave up.

I had mastitis thrice and boy did i
tell myself each time i'd stop but i
didn't.

I had fever spikes and boi do those
fresh cabbages from the market help
sooo much with my darn engorged melons.

They were not only huge but hard like rocks.
I was easily mistaken as someone having done
breast enhancement! :siam:

[buds]

Most of you very very very lucky to have gained only between 5kg to 20kg.

I won't tell how much i gained cos sure many can make mental calculation. :politebleah:

I was one massive walking dinosaur.

For DD2 my weight prior to delivery was slightly over 75kg!
Can you imagine that!

For me, my main weight loss regime after delivering DD1..
was definitely the post-natal stress, blues & freakin' problems
with my MIL! I went back to work stick thin. My colleagues said
my pre-pregnancy clothes were loose on me for someone who juz
gave birth!

No extra special diets whatsoever. Just more soups and fruits. I cudn
for the love of my life swallow any essences from any kind. :sick: I cud
not stomach the smell what more the taste! :faint: Did the massage and
the wraps. Like autumnbronze, it was pure bliss of those few days.. :love:

As for white veggies that cause colic.. i just know it now that someone
mentioned it. But i ate cabbages.. nothing leh. Cabbages are considered
white veggies right? The rest that i do not eat, i use it to calm my melons
from over-growing. The tiring part abt having too much milk is.... really bo
pian. Must express EVERY 3 hourly esp if baby sleep thru the next feeding..
If lazy to get up and do it since baby sleeping anyways... it'd be hard by the
time i wake up!

[Funz]

Yah boy buds, really hard like rocks. DH said can give someone orh bak kak if not careful. Then he say must be careful dun wait knock into baby’s head can cos concussion. Irritating.


Since I was on total EBM my whole freezer was filled with milk. Overslept one nite and my PJ top was soaked thru with breastmilk. For most mummies, their milk come in only about 4 days to a week after birth. Me, I started leaking colostrum 1 mth b4 birth. On the day that I gave birth, I was engorged in the evening. With DD, inexperience so did not prepare pump or thot of pumping, while still in hospital. Went home with blocked ducts, luckily manage to clear through pumping and massaging b4 it got worse. With DS, experience liao. Brought my trusty pump along. 4hrs after birth, I was pumping over 100ml of thick yellow colostrum much to the delight the nurses. But hor very wasted cos poured away a lot oso since DS did not drink much the few days of his life.