Postnatal Weight Gain

:: Why it happens

Pregnancy can cause the internal secretion as well as the metabolic rate of the fat cells to dysfunction and lose its natural balance, thus causing overweight problems.
During pregnancy, your appetite tends to be a lot heartier and you might feel the urge to binge on all sorts of food (fatty, high in protein and sugar), causing your weight to balloon.
The confinement period is a time where most women put on excess weight. This is due to the amount of food they consume in order to re-nourish their system. After childbirth, the stomach and liver will have a difficult time readjusting to the normal way of digestion. If too much food has been consumed, the calories that have not been burned will store itself into the pockets in the skin, thus becoming deposited fat.
Women who used to be smokers before childbirth will have a higher possibility of putting on weight after delivery.
:: Characteristics

During pregnancy, women tend to exceed their normal weight by about 10 to 30kgs; their physical structures expanding outwards about 20% to 50%.
After childbirth, the appearance of the body will take on significant changes. Accumulated fat is deposited all over the body, the breasts will start to sag, skin around the stomach will loosen and the shoulders will take on a "rounder" fleshier appearance. Water retention will also be apparent in the thighs and even wrinkles will start to appear. In other words, a lot of effort is to be made to regain your figure to what it was before childbirth.
Women after childbirth will start to see changes in their eating habits. They will also feel physically weak and their movements tend to be slower. In more serious cases, some may lose control of their bladder or their ovaries might start to tilt downwards.


:: Aftereffects

A month after childbirth is the best opportunity to commence on your weight management programme. If a suitable treatment is sought, your chances of recovery can be 100%. You'll be able to restore your youthful figure once again.
If you choose to seek treatment 6 months after you've given birth, you may need to put in more time and effort to redefine your figure as well as lose those extra pounds. Do take note that your treatment may not be as effective if you choose to delay seeking professional help!
Do not even consider the notion of saving the dollars and only seeking post-natal treatment after you've had a few kids. This misconception will only lower all possibilities of restoring or reshaping your figure. For most women, chances of recovery after the first birth will be extremely successful. You will be lowering your chances if you wait till after the second and if it's the third, it's going to take a lot more time and effort.


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