When does your belly start shrinking?

Question

Its been a few days since I had my baby. Its my 2nd child. I still look like I'm 5 month pregnant. I don't remember being this big with my first child. Is this normal and how long will it last? I've also been experiencing lots of gas and diarrhea, is this normal too?? Thank you.

Answer 1

I have heard some woman saying that it takes them awhile to not look pregnant anymore.  With me I was in prepregnancy pants 3 days after the birth of my boys.  I just looked fat basically but not pregnant.  My mom was the same way but she only gained 5 lbs when she was pregnant with me and so she looked 3 months when she had me anyways.  

Answer 2

its not gonna go by itself u need to work out than it will goaway.

Answer 3

with  a second child, sometimes you have to watch out as you might have torn your muscles. IF you do an exersize . Pretend your doing a sit up, and as you go up, feel in the centre of your belly. If it feels seperated, you might have to get it sewn up. You might have hernias also, your stomach wont go down if you have hernias. Get an ultra sound. But you have just had a baby so wait a while. wait atleast 1 or 2 months. If your breastfeeding it will go down soon, but if you have had a ceserian then it prob wont go down until a year. But you have to wrk out, do alot of crunches. And dont eat junk food. I dont know why your sick. YTou probably just caught something. Make sure you get acvtive when u feel ready too.  

Answer 4

Breast feeding is the best way to lose it. For instance i had four friends pregnant and myself. I had the smallest baby and the next closest to me was over a pound more yet i was the only person that didn't lose the baby weight right away and the only difference is they breast fed. I went to the gym every time i could till i was nine months pregnant and went right back to it at 4 weeks (slowly obviously) but i still ended up taking much longer then them, they were all right down in the 1st week. If you don't breast feed i got the wii fit and it has helped a lot. When your all better and healed just do some crunches and walk a lot it really helped me out. Good luck :) i know it is hard to lose sometimes.