Patricia wrote:
<<Has anyone else noticed this Murphy's Law of BF - heavy moms get heavier
while BF and thin moms get thinner?  I've always wondered about that.
Probably has something to do with how their bodies metabolize.>>

Well, I can vouch for that. After baby #1 I dropped weight like until I was
about 10 pounds below normal (and normal wasn't exactly a lot), couldn't
keep weight on. With baby # 2 I really tried to keep weight on (and this is
not something people appreciated me sharing!) but still lost until I was
about 10 pounds below my pre-baby weight. So on a
5' 5" frame I was about 110 pounds. Babies gained great though. I saw a
nutritionist once and we estimated I was taking in at least 2500 calories a
day, but must have had a metabolism in overdrive.

Now that both are weaned my weight came up to about 120 and seems to stay
there pretty easily.

Donna Hansen
Burnaby (next door to Vancouver), British Columbia
Canada
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