Has breastfeeding impacted your weight or overall health in any way? Made you more aware or changed anything for you? Do you think its a good think to focus on how breastfeeding can help moms lose weight? Why or why not? Weight loss and breastfeeding: some women lose weight easily while feeding their babies, others find their bodies hold on to some weight until the wean. Either way, eating healthy and being active is good for you and your family. Our community is getting moving with #TLBmoves, working on developing healthy goals for our families in terms of activity, eating well, hydration (drink up!) and sleep. But it isnt one-size-fits all including that breastfeeding helps moms lose weight, it really doesnt for some. One mom wrote about her frustration with the emphasis on breastfeeding helping with weight loss: I understand the desire for women to lose their baby weight. Im as keen as the next new mother to torch my daggy maternity jeans and reacquaint myself with waistbands. I also want to feel like me again rather than a baby-carrying vessel. Mothers lose so much of themselves when they give birth, that having some kind of bodily autonomy back - or at the least getting back to some semblance of normal, including weight - is a way of regaining our identity. But to assume that we need the false promise of weight loss in order to breastfeed is insulting. The choice to breastfeed or bottlefeed is complex, personal and very often guilt-ridden. Myths and lies have no place in this decision. stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/10375438/The-breastfeeding-and-weightloss-lie If youre looking for judgment-free support in pursuing health for your family, check out our private Facebook group for TLBmoves: https://facebook/groups/1516983725183143/?ref=br_tf and read more about the challenge here: theleakyboob/2014/08/were-moving/ Huge thanks to Joovy, TULA Baby Carriers, and thinkbaby thinksport for supporting families in being healthier.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:42:38 +0000
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