7 Surprising Facts About Your Post-baby Body

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You don't have your post-baby body until you're ... post-baby
For the first several months you are still very much physically involved in the process of 'having a baby.' You have neither a pre-pregnant nor post-baby body yet. You are still doing substantial work - your uterus is involuting, your hormones are shifting to accommodate breastfeeding, you're sweating out extra fluids form pregnancy and fluids given ... more 

Photo by: Helen Taylor/Flickr

You don't have your post-baby body until you're ... post-baby
For the first several months you are still very much physically involved in the process of 'having a baby.' You have neither a pre-pregnant nor post-baby body yet. You are still doing substantial work - your uterus is involuting, your hormones are shifting to accommodate breastfeeding, you're sweating out extra fluids form pregnancy and fluids given during labor, your organs are shifting ... Sometimes we are given the impression that post-baby bodies are to be realistically obtained before you are, indeed, post-baby. This woman has a post-baby body. Her son was sixteen months when this picture was taken.
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