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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Both times I gave birth I think I must have had a “fast” recovering uterus because the nurses would come in to massage it back down and they would have trouble finding it because it had already moved closer to its normal position than they were expecting.
They started very high and moved progressively lower until it seemed like they were pushing where it usually is and they were all “wtf” but I was like “yeah, I thought you were aiming too high but you guys are the experts.”
I got a lot of comments about it so I suppose it’s unusual for it to go back down that quickly.
Everyone’s body is different though. I didn’t show until very late in my pregnancies and didn’t get stretch marks so maybe my skin and organs are more elastic than average? My stomach went back to being flat after losing all the pregnancy weight but some people have diastasis recti where their abdominal muscles separate and it might not necessarily go back without physical therapy. It all depends on how many babies you carried, how big they are, how much weight you gained, how you carried, your age, etc. Some women never “snap back” all the way without surgery, others are wearing their pre-pregnancy clothes 2 days after labor. It all depends on the individual situation.
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