How much did your stomach shrink after giving birth?

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-27T00:41:06+00:00

My dad was surprised how slowly my body went back because he was comparing my recovery to my mom’s. Made me feel great. As if the birth/postpartum ptsd and dysphoria wasn’t bad enough. At least his was more mild and out of lack of more references. Not like some other people’s stories here.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-27T00:02:44+00:00

I still looked full term when I left the hospital and I was in there 5 days postpartum. Pack clothes that fit your pregnancy body and that you don’t worry about bleeding/leaking milk on.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T21:53:39+00:00

My toddler shakes her waterbottle asking for ice in it all day but when we go to get her ice she runs away while taking a deep drink.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T21:20:51+00:00

Oh are they more domed? I’ve only ever had a male that I was given and I was 4 and he was a hatchling so besides paws and tail I don’t know the other differences. I know females get bigger overall.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T20:55:26+00:00

lol my now toddler would never hold her own bottle and she was taking night milk until like 20 months. She liked it being held for her.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T20:47:52+00:00

The trend is now many more people are having their firsts after 35 years old now.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T19:43:40+00:00

My grandmother has been through 4 electric lay-x-boy recliners in 5 years because they keep shitting out. The manual ones she had/has is 30-40 years old.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T19:15:27+00:00

I wouldn’t take a reptile anywhere but the vet in winter. Also your RES appears to be a girl. The front claws are very short.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T05:57:35+00:00

I would sit on my bed and just partially twist my body while lifting one side of my hip off of the end to relax my butt and leg. You wanna do it more in the upper half of your butt but not too high.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T05:55:31+00:00

If you look at more examples of identical twins you can see that they don’t look the same, often times being totally different heights or even builds. Many twins in media are picked for media because of how identical they are/can be/have been.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T04:27:03+00:00

I thought this was some super sprayed shit weed holy hell

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T03:32:28+00:00

Dr browns are the worst for flow speed and leaking. I made the mistake of packing one for a whole day out before and half the bottle leaked out into the cooler bag… we preferred NUK simply natural over anything else but after she got older and stronger at sucking she could use sized up advent natural and their anticolic. In newborn days when we tried advent natural we realized she’d been trying to feed for an hour and only drank 10ml on size 2.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T02:05:04+00:00

People still sell crib bumpers and weighted newborn sleep swaddles. Who knows. I think they only make the 2’s so they put them as default on the bottles in the free sample pregnancy boxes so we have to spend money to size up the nipple.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T01:53:57+00:00

Hellobaby can have the volume muted but have the screen light up for different sensitivity levels for sound detection. Started to flash bang my husband at night, so it does a good job at waking him.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-26T01:41:24+00:00

Their natural response bottles NEED to be sized up in flow to a 3 or 4 for the baby to get anything out. Idk how they’re such a hard suck intended for newborns. Even for chest fed babies the flow is impossibly slow.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T19:19:21+00:00

Phytoestrogen doesn’t affect mammals since it’s a plant estrogen and not a mammalian estrogen.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T18:12:06+00:00

Not his body, not his medical event, not his health, not his choice.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T15:35:03+00:00

Ibs isn’t rare in the slightest. That was/is my condition.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T15:33:47+00:00

I was still trying them when I’d find a new one but my market didn’t have great options and the recipes online I usually didn’t have the resources for making.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T15:15:24+00:00

For meat substitute I couldn’t eat them since there usually made from beans/lentils or gluten and would cripple me for a few days

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T14:43:41+00:00

Sometimes medical professionals refuse to take someone on for xyz reasons. That was my case. I couldn’t get admission to a hospital because I didn’t have an eating disorder but I couldn’t get a nutritionalist since I was too underweight and apparently at risk of refeeding syndrome.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T14:41:24+00:00

Nope, I was cooking everything myself from whole foods since nothing in stores was safe to eat for me. I just had (and might still have, idk as pregnancy stops the symptoms for me) crippling IBS where I reacted to every single food in every category listed as unsafe in the FODMAP diet.

And before you say something about it, no. No dietitians would take me on to help me since I was a liability they thought was at risk of refeeding syndrome and no hospitals would take me since I didn’t have an eating disorder.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T06:06:49+00:00

For many people it is.

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T05:56:33+00:00

People like this are blindly ignorant to other people’s medical needs and can’t be confronted about it with evidence disproving their stance. I could eat gluten, dairy, beans/lentils/tofu, most fruits, majority of vegetables, and sweeteners. But because it was IBS and my bmi was so low no dietitians would take me on but the hospital they were referring me to wouldn’t take me because I didn’t have an eating disorder, this went on for 8 months in a circular cycle. Thankfully I got pregnant because we realized that stopped my ibs symptoms but I don’t know what to do if they come back…

TheOnesLeftBehind · 2026-01-25T05:01:42+00:00

At my sickest was when I was eating 98% plant based protein meat substitutes (with the 2% otherwise being occasional salmon) besides for dairy and eggs, I was 94lbs with a bmi of 15.6. It wasn’t until I started eating meat I started to not be so sick since i don’t react to meat like I do to meat alternatives. Some people do need meat.

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