The easiest example: the uterus shrinks to its normal size after a while, but how does the body get rid of the extra tissue? How does it get metabolized? Through the kidneys, liver, guts…?
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Any extra tissue that the woman gains through pregnancy will be fat and skin. Excluding the mammary glands, which will grow and start producing milk as part of a process which continues long after pregnancy and is outside the scope of your question.
The fat will be gotten rid of the same way it always is. Some of the water in it will be processed through your kidneys and you will urinate it out, or become sweat. Some it will be exhaled as you breathe.
Skin will shrink, although often not to the size or shape it was before. This is really the only organ that should be affected by the pregnancy (again, excluding mammary glands). Other organs may grow more fat on them as well. If other organs are affected in some way, that’s a medical problem which needs to be addressed.
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