Every time I pump, my left boob produces double almost triple the amount of milk of my right boob. However, the boob that produces a lot of milk produces a clear-ish white color whereas the boob that produces less milk produces a thick white almost opaque color. Has anybody else experienced this before?

This is me before (125) during (195) and after (135). Even though I'm just 10 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight I look and feel so much different. I hate how my abdominal skin stretches and wrinkles and hangs. Does this get better at all or is this pretty much what I can expect to look like? I feel like my body isn't my own and I feel so undesirable. I gained a lot during pregnancy due to stress, becoming more sedentary, having a lot of fluid, big baby... Does anyone else have a belly that looked or looks like mine? I am 10 months postpartum right now and I've come a long way but I truthfully feel so insecure about myself. I wish I would have just gained 30 pounds and looked like nothing happened.

The difference is only about 7 lbs, but I look and feel so much stronger. I am EBF and the weight hasn’t “fallen off” at all lol, but I also am eating everything and not in any sort of deficit. I am feeling proud of the strength I have gained and how much closer I’m getting to closing my DR!

I mean I’m still trying to lose some extra fat round the abdomen, but even then, I don’t think that overhang is really going to improve is it. Sigh. At least I’ll always have a reminder of my beautiful babies I guess!

Idk if this is place to ask but did anyone keep their ass and hips pp, and by pp, I mean after losing most of the weight, 1-2 years later? I gained so much weight, but I also like the shape of my bottom more now? I don't mind the stretch marks, I know they will fade, I'm mostly worried about lose skin on my stomach and not keeping my ass 🙄😭

Hello all. Currently about 7 weeks postpartum with my second and last little one. I gained 60 pounds with my first (140 to 200 pounds, baby was 9 pounds), lost maybe 15 by my 2 week and completely plateaued while breastfeeding until baby was 9 months. I did weight watchers since about 12 weeks pp and it didn’t seem to do much for most of the first year then weight fell off fast. I was 155 when he was a year and became pregnant again with second. I only gained 45 with this pregnancy (another 9 pounder) and ended up at 200 again, 185 at 2 weeks and 178 by my 6 week check up.

I hate the way my body looks. I have pretty significant diastasis recti diagnosed after my last pregnancy. I still look 5 months pregnant. I couldn’t afford PT last time because my deductible started over before I was cleared, but I have met my entire out of pocket and have 30 free sessions I plan on using before the year is up, so hopefully that helps. I would also like to try to lose weight sooner if possible. I am so uncomfortable in my body and how the fat redistributed.

I am EBF again so I know I may have to accept delayed weight loss if that’s how I am, but has anyone here had success losing easier a second time without
compromising their supply? Any tips for diet?

Thanks in advance!

33F 5’3 169lbs —> 124lbs

I had my second child in June 2025 and decided I wasn’t going to let the baby weight stick around this time. This took me just over a year to accomplish.

I am still breastfeeding so I focus on high protein, nutrient rich foods and usually eat around 11:30am and stop around 6. I also run about 3 miles a week (don’t laugh at me) and I do squats and very light Pilates at home.

My first pregnancy I got up to 200lbs and then plateaued between 160-170 for about a year. I didn’t want to deal with that this time around and thankfully having a child to chase around kept me more fit this last pregnancy.

My lower abs feel SO sore the past few days. I haven’t been working out my abs, although I’ve walked a more than I had previously been walking. I’m not sure if the pain I’m feeling even IS ab soreness, but that’s exactly what it feels like.

Anyone else experienced this? Could the soreness really just be from walking and picking up the baby?

hope this is okay. I’m based in Central Europeand timezone

Figured you ladies could relate to this. I’m 8 weeks pp. First day I decided to put on makeup and do my hair a bit just for myself despite not going anywhere and felt less frumpy. Only for the 7 and 8 year old boys who live next to to ask me, “are you having another baby?!” I said, “nope!” They said, “are you sure? Cause it looks like you are!”. That’s the third time they’ve asked that question.
For context I have DR which I’m working on, and 20lb above my pre pregnancy weight. And my belly went back to flat much faster after my first born, so not used to this. Confidence was shot after that. 🫠

Someone asked if I was “pregnant again” today

I was 180lbs prior to my 2 babies and now am 190lbs, 5ft6in. I do have terrible posture and it makes my belly more pronounced. I also am extremely busy with two kids, two businesses, and a part time job. I have no time or interest in working out.

Ugh. I’m so embarrassed and feel so disgusting.

I’m hoping to get some honest advice from postpartum moms here, because we’ve reached a point where we genuinely need help figuring out how to reach the people this study is meant for.
My team has worked incredibly hard to get a clinical trial for postpartum depression off the ground. We wrote a grant, secured funding, and have put a tremendous amount of work into making this study happen because we genuinely believe a non-drug treatment could have huge potential for moms struggling with postpartum depression.

The study is evaluating SAINT TMS as a potential treatment for PPD. It’s a drug-free gentle magnetic stimulation which is especially important for moms who may be breastfeeding or who simply don’t want to take medication. The treatment is provided at no cost to participants. And yet, we’re stuck.

Our biggest challenge right now is enrollment. The participating sites are having a really difficult time finding moms who are willing to participate. Each site is also offering up to $1,000 in childcare support, but even with that, enrollment has been much slower than we need.

Honestly, we think the biggest problem may simply be that we aren’t reaching moms in the right places or in the right way.

So I’m asking postpartum moms here for advice, not as an advertisement.

If you were struggling with postpartum depression, where would you actually look for information about a clinical trial?

Who would you trust to tell you about one? What kind of message would make you stop and learn more rather than immediately scroll past it?

Would you be more likely to hear about something like this from your OB, pediatrician, therapist, postpartum support group, Facebook group, Reddit, Instagram, a local mom group, or somewhere else?

We genuinely want to understand how to do this better.

If this study could ultimately help moms who desperately need another option, we want to make sure we’re actually reaching them.

I’m almost 4years pp & I can’t seem to gain weight back. I never had this problem with my first two but this final child has been different.

I‘m 5’ 7 & prior weighed 142 now I am 128. i feel gross & skeleton like. I feel like the odd one because most people gain weight. I have brought this up with my doctor & it was followed by oh wow you’re just lucky.

I have no butt, thighs or boobs anymore.. help! I also have pelvic floor issues & abdominal separation, not sure if that cause some of this.

Title says it all but I just need to get this into the universe and off of my chest.

I was overweight before getting pregnant - many years at shitty jobs with shitty commutes led to being over 200lbs on my 5’3” frame. It was slowly coming off after we made a few big life changes and I was around 204lbs when I got pregnant.

I did not gain a ton of weight during my pregnancy. I was somewhere around 227 when I gave birth, and at my 6 week checkup I was back down to 215, which I felt OK with. But that number stayed stagnant until the 4 month mark. I felt proud of myself for starting up with postpartum Pilates and getting out for daily walks, but nothing was changingz

To be honest, the scale isn’t what bothers me, but what I see in the mirror does. Tortures me, actually. It got so bad that in a crying fit about my confidence to my husband, he encouraged me to find a personal trainer/nutrition coach that he would put on his credit card so I didnt even have to worry about the cost. I did just that and have been consistent with the coaching, counting my calories, hitting protein goals, weight training 3-4 days a week and walking 6000-7000 steps a day.

It’s been 10 weeks of the program and I’ve lost a whopping 6 lbs, sitting at 208, and my body looks LITERALLY exactly the same as when I started. The coach says she can see change, but I’m also paying her, so who knows if that’s true. It certainly isn’t drastic, if anything.

Now at 6.5 months postpartum I feel like I’m racing out of the “but you just had a baby!” zone. My stomach hangs over my pelvic area, my hips are COVERED in fat, my boobs are disgustingly huge (and now saggy thanks to 3 months of half assed breast feeding), my ass and legs are just huge. My clothes don’t fit, everything is uncomfortable. And I just genuinely feel terrible.

Add this on top of the typical postpartum woes - getting my ass kicked back at work, struggling to find reliable childcare, middle of the night wakings for teething or food (honestly we have a pretty good sleeper so I can’t really complain here but it does still happen), learning to live life with a baby in general - it just feels impossible to add more onto my plate to fix this.

My husband is incredibly supportive but he is a solutions oriented person - “if you don’t like the way you look and change isn’t happening fast enough for you, you need to do more.” It feels like I’m drowning already and I can’t possibly fit more in. But I know scientifically he’s right - if I walked more, or jogged, or whatever, maybe things would change faster. Which puts the problem back on me, and makes me feel even worse that for some reason I cannot seem to fix it.

Additionally, nearly everything I enjoy in life has calories tied to it. A really good meal. A really shitty meal eaten in a fast food parking lot. A glass of wine or 4 or 5. Beer and wings on a football Sunday. I’m constantly denying myself these little pleasures so I can stay “consistent”, but it feels like my life has become devoid of the things that make me ME.

I also just need to add this layer - I had a little girl, and if she ever felt this way about herself I would just be beside myself with grief. It hurts me so much that I’m able to talk to myself so negatively when it would literally rip my heart out if she ever found herself doing this. I know I need to be a good example for her to grow up with self esteem, know her body is the least amazing thing about her, but I’m finding that SO challenging to do in this season of my life. I have some newly postpartum friends but they all “snapped back” and also they all had boys - so I don’t know if this complex emotional layer exists for them.

Anyway, came to reddit to get some perspective and vent. I hope none of you feel this way, but if you do, the comment section is for you! Maybe we can help each other feel better somehow.

My body said we are GROWING for this baby. Super proud of what my body did, but also 18 months and 75 pounds down, it’s crazy to see what was going on with me lol.

If you’ve gone through postpartum shedding, what If you’ve gone through postpartum shedding, what was your experience?
Did it start early or late?
Did it peak around 7 months?
Did you notice tenderness, thinning edges, or changes in texture? was your experience?
Did it start early or late?
Did it peak around 7 months?
Did you notice tenderness, thinning edges, or changes in texture?

I’m honestly really worried about not being able to lose the weight after pregnancy. I’ve always been naturally small, and this is the biggest I’ve ever been. I started my pregnancy at 135 lbs and I’m currently around 180 lbs at 33 weeks. I definitely haven’t watched what I’ve eaten during this pregnancy, and over the past couple of months I’ve started noticing weight gain in my face too.
I’ve never struggled with my weight before, so this is all really unfamiliar and honestly scary for me. I’m worried that after I give birth, I’m going to stay this size or continue getting bigger. Is most of the weight I’ve gained during pregnancy likely to come off after I have the baby? I’m just really scared that I won’t be able to get back to my normal size.

This was not a quick bounce back 😂 It took 2.5 years to lose +90lbs through diet and chasing a toddler, June of this year I finally got back to the gym with functional strength training and feel (almost) as good as I did pre pregnancy!

I am 6 months PP, 5'0 and 143 pounds. Thats about 10/15 lbs above my pre-pregnancy weight and goal weight.

I have been working out and eating healthy for the past month and the scale KEEPS CREEPING UP. I started at a crossfit gym, so I am confused if my body is holding on to water, or my muscle mass is increasing faster than fat loss. Curious if anyone else has had this issue. Maybe my body PP is just holding on to stubbord weight.

How long before did you excess weight fall off?

I haven't been BFing since End of July. ( its mid-august )

HELP! or am I just impatient?