It takes nine months to grow a baby. Yet women often start thinking about ‘snapping back’ into shape within a few months or even a few weeks after birth. It drives me mad - the pressure and judgement and pure expectation that a woman can ‘get back’ to what she looked like before. Your body has likely changed beyond recognition, and may not return. It has done something amazing. Once you’ve had a chance to heal and recover, rebuild and restore, then, and only then, can you start thinking about losing excess fat. Here’s what every new mother needs to know about losing weight postpartum.

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