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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The baby sits inside the womb. The womb stretches. When the baby is born, the bump still exists because the womb has stretched, and it gradually shrinks back down to a normal size. It isn’t instant, even with a C sec. It also never goes fully back to its original size, picture stretching an elastic band.

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