my baby is finally here and i am a very happy new mum ..
My lil one is two months now ..
Although, i really cant see myself in the mirror, clothes aint fun any more and i feel so depressed at times cuz i had such a good figure before having my baby …
That the shape changes is absolutely normal but i still want to know what i can do loose weight asap. I could simply go on a diet but i am breastfeeding and i dun want to stop that just to loose weight and concentrate properly on a strict diet plan as that would affect the milk.
A lot of people say u will loose weight on ur own when u breastfeed, in fact i lost 9 kilos already but that aint a highlight cuz u obviously have to minus the babys weight , placenta and stuff ..
and for quite a time im stuck on my 69 kilos and not getting rid of any more kilos.
Is there anything i can do or eat but at the same time not harm the breastmilk ?
Diet plan doesn't mean starving yourself, a proper diet shouldn't affect your milk supply. Just eat in smaller portions... cut down on fatty & unhealthy food and continue breastfeeding (it does help a lot with weight loss but slowly). Also try to get some exercise (maybe go for a walk daily with the baby in a stroller if its not too cold where you live or do some exercises at home) or best of all, join a gym if someone can watch your baby for 45 minutes or so.
I lost about 60 lbs while breastfeeding without lifting a finger (gained 50 during pregnancy). So yes it happens to most of us but its slow. I lost the weight over a year and a half. When i stopped feeding, a few lbs have creeped back in plus i have some more to lose from before the pregnancy. Watch what you are eating, no sugary or high fat items and try working out if you can manage it. You WILL lose the weight, you will just have to be a bit patient.
Most mothers are highly motivated to eat a nutritious diet during their pregnancies. Assuming that you ate an adequate diet while you were pregnant, you can produce plenty of milk for your baby by keeping up this motivation and making sure that you continue your healthy eating patterns during lactation. While you should attempt to eat a “good diet” while you are nursing, you need to be aware that your diet doesn’t have to be perfect in order to support lactation. You can still breastfeed even if your diet is less than ideal. You may be surprised to learn that studies have shown that maternal nutrition has only a minor effect on the composition and quantity of breastmilk produced. Usually, unless a mother is severely malnourished, her milk is fine. Mothers whose diets are poor deplete their own energy levels, and may become anemic, but their bodies will continue to produce the milk their baby needs by pulling from the mother’s energy stores at her expense, but not her baby’s. Most women in this country don’t suffer from a lack of food, but rather from eating too much of the wrong kinds.
There are no special dietary rules to follow during lactation. If your eating habits are fairly healthy, there is no reason to change them while you are nursing. There are no special foods to avoid, or certain foods that you need to eat (like milk) in order to produce a plentiful supply of nutritious breastmilk. With rare exceptions, nursing mothers can eat pretty much anything they want to eat - including chocolate, broccoli, pizza, and diet soda - in moderation. Some dieticians and lactation experts feel that one advantage to breastfeeding may be that the milk is flavored by the foods the mother eats, so the baby becomes used to a variety of taste sensations, and tends to have fewer feeding problems as he gets older. One famous study showed that when mothers ate lots and lots of garlic, their milk tasted and smelled like garlic. Not only did the babies who drank the milk not have any digestive problems, but they actually preferred the garlicky milk over the unflavored milk. Think about it - women in South America who eat lots of peppers, or women in India who eat lots of curry don’t have babies any more colicky or fussy than babies in the U.S.
Diet plan doesn't mean starving yourself, a proper diet shouldn't affect your milk supply. Just eat in smaller portions... cut down on fatty & unhealthy food and continue breastfeeding (it does help a lot with weight loss but slowly). Also try to get some exercise (maybe go for a walk daily with the baby in a stroller if its not too cold where you live or do some exercises at home) or best of all, join a gym if someone can watch your baby for 45 minutes or so.
I really tried to fit in a 30 mins walk into my day but that unfortunately does not always work cuz at times i feel so low then the weather is too cold to take the baby outside and sometimes i am just lazy ..
but i guess i have no choice ...
For me it's been difficult too. Within the first month I dropped almost all my pregnancy weight. But then the nursing hunger started really kicking in, and I gained a bunch back. I'd love to lose about 15-20lbs. Just don't know how. I had supply issues in the beginning and was really nervous about cardio.
.. sorry don’t know the answer to your question!