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What happens after birth to your body?

You think oh, wow, I’m so glad that’s over! You switch from pregnancy brain to sleep deprived parent.

I knew that much.

Your stomach looks like a deflated balloon. Eventually, the red angry stretch marks will fade to silvery gray.

I’ve heard those described as battle scars of parenting.

You don’t have that honor yet, because the baby can’t go anywhere without you yet. But your body will go into overdrive when the baby cries, the nipples leak.

Mine do that already if irritated.

They’ll do it after birth whether irritated by a bra or the sound of a newborn starting to wail.

What else will go on?

You’ll wonder if it was worth that much work to lose twenty pounds, then wonder how much more work it will take to lose the other twenty.

The extra pound or two in the breasts is permanent.

So is the extra shoe size or two your feet went up in response to all those hormones to relax the tendons to give the baby room, though the swelling in the ankles should go down.

Yeah, along with all the blood and other fluids I’ll lose.

Some of the extra blood and fluids will pass through your system slowly, and it won’t be as fast as you think since it doesn’t go away when your water breaks.

I knew that already.

You’ll probably get your energy back after the fatigued of childbirth is over.

That’s where sleep deprived parent takes over.

You’ll still have to take care not to get dehydrated if you’re breastfeeding. Especially since eight ounces for the baby is more like a liter for you, and the ratio goes up if you’re drinking energy drinks or coffee.

I know anything with caffeine dehydrates you.

You’ll see the swelling in your calves go down and likely sleep better since all the pressure on the veins in your back is gone.

Except now I have an alarm clock evolution has programmed me to react to better than any electronic one.

Doctors will recommend you don’t carry anything over ten pounds or five kilos as your body heals from the birth.

That’s conveniently just above the weight of the newborn, well, I hope it is.

You’ll feel the back pains ease after your body heals from childbirth, and you won’t have the tendon and ligament strains you did. However, the wider gait is likely permanent since the hips widen when pregnant.

Not as much as the shoes did, comparatively.

You may find yourself permanently up a dress size, just as you were a shoe size or two larger.

Breast feeding is supposed to help with weight loss.

The baby consumes maybe 300 to 500 calories, though breastfeeding will help your stomach shrink faster, like months sooner though it never goes back as washboard flat and hard as it was.

I thought a lot of these symptoms would fade faster.

The line on the belly from navel to pubic area and darker coloring on nipples or even your face will go away within days of birth. Your skin and hair will go back to the prior oiliness, though how often you get to shower with a newborn is a different problem.