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Wow, I haven't had my baby yet, but this is a fear of mine. So I can't answer your question with any experience, but I do know that 3 1/2 weeks isn't very much time. My doctor said I'll need to wait 6 before I even really work out (assuming a normal vaginal delivery), and most people say it takes at least a month before it really starts to come off. Just hang in there a little longer, exercise, and eat healthy and you should start to see it come off I would think.

Yep, I can´t exercise or diet until week 6 asuming that I am fully recovered. It´s just that 20 pounds is an amount of weight I never thought I would have to lose, even when I know the saying "it took you 9 months to put it on, it will take you 9 months to take it off". I hope that like you said, it will start coming of after a month or so.

Annette, I went through theEXACT same thing after my baby. And I will tell you that yes the weight can be lost, but not without work. The breatsfeeding did absolutely nothing to help me lose the weight. I would work out with weights and that helped a little, but what I found helped me lose the weight the fastest was our elliptical machine (cardio). I love it!! Of course I had to do better about what I ate and still work out with weights, but as far as what worked best for me the elliptical was it. Unfortunely, I didn't figure it out until my baby was a year old. Don't get down just get motivated. I love that I finally got the weight off. I never thought I would. I even gave away my cute thin clothes that I wish I had now.

hi just wanted to say i have had three babies and with all of them it was the breast feeding that helped me lose the weight but that was 6 months later the first few months i didnt lose any weight it was gradual and i noticed the kids i breastfed more i lost more weight.I heard intially whilst breastfeeding it is not good to do a lot of exercise as you excrete toxins and that goes into the breast milk.

Breastfeeding did NOT help me lose any weight. I lost the first 15 pounds like 2 days after I had my baby, and still had another 15 to lose. I didn't even lose 1 pound until I stopped nurseing. I nuresed my son for 12 1/2 months. As soon as I stopped I lost 13 pounds in about 3 weeks, then I found out I was pregnant again. So now I am 28 weeks pregnant. The same thing happend to a few friends of mine too. It's crazy how everyone is so different. Some people lose all there weight while breastfeeding and others keep it on. I ate more when I was breastfeeding then I did while I was pregnant.

I am currently nursing baby no. 4, and have found that I only ever lose the baby's birth-weight after the birth and keep on all the other pounds I piled on. I lose nothing whilst breastfeeding. The weight does however always come off (eventually) and quite easily when I stop breastfeeding. I think we just have to think of the needs of the baby for a little while longer than just the pregnancy and worry about losing our weight when we finish breastfeeding. Believe me, the weight always comes off in the end, but we can't help feeling a little impatient. Stick at it!

It is too soon to worry. Talk a long walk with your baby everyday and stay away from junk food. Don't freak out yet- you just had your baby!!! It will be okay!

Don't worry you will lose it keep breastfeeding and exercising.