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Add to FavoritesThere are many reasons for losing weight after giving birth and not losing weight. Some people may wonder: is it really possible to return to previous size exactly? Will it harm the baby for lack of nutrition from the breastfeeding?
If a woman doesn't lose weight long after the childbirth, people may understand. Some excuses will be justified, that it's indeed impossible to do so. At least, many health practitioners recommend at least 6 months of breastfeeding period.
It's actually easier to lose weight rather than not. There are much more good reason to do so and there are much more things to help women lose weight after childbirth, especially in this modern age.
Take the 'no' side first. If a woman doesn't lose weight, and say if her husband accepts her as she is (hopefully so), a question arises. What happens if the woman gives birth to more babies, one after another? How much weight will she accumulate along the way?
Say, a husband accepts the wife as she is, regardless of her weight. The question will be: is there any guarantee that the husband will never get attracted to other young women out there? Let's assume the husband is faithful. Will the wife turn her husband on? Which one gives more pride to the women: the husband gets excited by looking at the wife, or at other women?
Why should a woman care? Other than the husband, the children will be the other factors. Do you want the children to say: "My mom is fat" or "My mom is pretty"? Certainly, there's no threat of adultery this time, but which comment is more pleasant to hear?
If other people say, "Whoa, she looks beautiful although she has already given birth 5 times!", "She looks just like a young girl, despite already having young girls as her daughters", will it be nice to hear?
We're not talking about pressure. It's within human's right. At worst: husband's right. The husband may or may not demand the wife to be beautiful. Yet, for women, why not give your best to your soulmate?
In the same situation, women should feel fortunate, since the burden of taking care of the babies is mainly borne by women, which involves waking up at nights, breastfeeding, cleaning the babies, and so on, women should have no problem getting back into shape. All those activities are really nice calorie burners.
Women should never feel any pressure to reshape fast to avoid putting the health at risk. The baby needs nutrition, and the husband needs to wife to stay healthy and fit all the time. Both are much more important than mere looks.
If you can choose to be healthy and beautiful at the same time, why only choose for one?
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Women just want to look good
It is true that we are faced daily with articles on How to Loose the Baby Weight, and see top celebrities bounce back to pre-pregnancy shape. However, women aren't overall super focused on being teenie tiny.
I think realistically speaking, women in general have learned to accept that pregnancies change our bodies and sometimes we can't just loose all the weight immediately. Now, for some, such as one of my friends, she was super model thin before she was pregnant. Not even 4 weeks later she was back to her pre- pregnant figure. Amazing! I cant lie, I was slightly envious. After I had my son and as soon as my body allowed, I started getting back into shape. More so because I wasn't happy laying around being sluggish and sloppy. It had nothing to do with outside pressure.
Most woman today are actually looking to find healthier ways to get back into shape after the birth of their child. It seems that they are more so interested in being healthy and feeling good about themselves than anything. I find it quite pathetic that as adults we would even consider allowing images of how magazines portray a woman to look even affect our mind set. We have have brains so why not use them ladies! I mean I can understand if we were young all young teenage girls who have poor body image and we're not grown up, but with only a few exceptions can I understand/justify that in adult womanhood. I see how a small portion of women are grouped into the exception of my opinion, such as those who are living in houses where their spouse may put them down based on their weight. Therefore, their spouse is considered to be pressuring them to loose excess weight. Celebs can be considered REQUIRED and pressured to lose the weight to maintain their previous image or maybe they have to go on tour. Which makes me ask, are you goin on tour anytime soon? Most likely, your not. Why? Because youre an AVERAGE woman! The thing is though, when I think about the average woman regardless of where she is from, I see a woman who weighs around 145-150 lbs. The average woman isn't even loosing weight! How could she be pressured to?
If anything I think women today just want to look great and feel happy in their body. I think women WANT to lose weight after giving birth. Its more natural now to get back in shape but hardly because one is pressured to or because there are such high expectations to look a certain way.
If women are being pressured to look a certain way or to loose a certain amount of weight after a baby, more than likely the pressure is coming from herself. And you know what? It might not be a bad thing. Sometimes we need a little motivation.
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