From the article: Exercising After Baby
Okay, so you've just had a baby. Now it's time to deal with the pregnancy weight gain, lack of sleep, your new baby and more. So how do you plan to tackle postpartum fitness? If you've already done it - what advice do you have for postpartum weight loss? Exercising with baby? Did you join a gym? Breastfeed? Eat less? Walk with friends? Share Your Experience
breastfed
- The most important thing for me was deciding not to stress about anything but the baby while he was a very needy newborn.. I decided to relax about tackling weight loss to concentrate on my baby, and weight loss occurred automatically since I breastfed for 3 years. Once I stopped breastfeeding I was within 15 lbs of my pre-pregnancy weight, and I had enough time to start running every other day, progressively further and faster until, in under a year, I had lost all the weight and was running 10ks. I think the biggest success was not stressing out about it; I knew this achievement would occur eventually once I had the time to devote full energy to it, but if I had stressed until then, I would have missed out on simply enjoying nurturing my baby.
- —Guest L-Emily
