Eli5. After the women gives birth, does the stomach deflate like a ballon or something?

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This sounds so stupid and im well aware. So the baby is in the stomach and after it leaves the skin cant magically shrink right back to size again. So its like if you put a watermellon in a bag. Then took out the watermellon. You still have the huge bag (stomach). So is it like a deflated ballon or is it like some magic.

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When i gave birth, it was in an operating room with forceps. So i was only minimally able to push. But at the key moment I happened to have my hand on my belly as he was born and i will NEVER forget the way it felt. My tight hard baby-filled belly suddenly deflated and kind of slopped back down all wobbly like a blancmange. It took several days to stop literally flopping when i stood up and even 9 years later my belly has never returned to its prepregnant state. Its been flat for years, but the skin and subcutaneous fat doesn’t seem internally attached in the same way. What was really alarming and weird was feeling my uterus contract during breastfeeding.

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