Belly after baby

The muscles and the skin really stretch during pregnancy and the muscles get weaker and the skin gets stretchier with each pregancy. With out seeing I could not say for sure, but it sounds like your skin was really stretched. Did you gain a lot of weight during pregnancy? Sometimes when we are pregnant our skin is forced to stretch beyond what it is comfortable with causing it to stretch too much. Then when you lose all the pregnancy weight the skin sometimes can not bounce back all the way. Hopefully the skin will fully bounce back in time, but sometimes surgery is need to tighten the skin. Try using creams on your stomach that are designed for tightening, this should help a little. It is amazing what we woman do to our bodies to have children.

I had my first baby and my belly went back after three months. It took about a year for it to go back after I had my second baby. One month ago I had my third baby and my belly looks like wobbly jelly. I can't wait to be strong enough for exercises. I suggest you try some exercises to get your belly back as it used to be. Good luck.

I have the same problem too! I do wish someone can find a solution to this dilemma of ours. I think my tummy got all stretched out already that it can't get its normal firmness back anymore. I don't think working out can make the skin firm anymore but there are lotions being sold that claims to make the skin firm again but I am not sure which ones are effective.

I can't help too much I'm afraid as I do not have kids, but I do have relatives that have had a similar experience. I would speak to a medical professional if I were you, sooner rather than later. Stay positive - I am sure there will be a way to get you back to the shape you want!

I understand exactly what you are saying, I had my daughter 18 mos ago, and I am about 6 lbs above what I was when I was pregnant with her, and like you I am a size 5 as well.... I couldnt not pull off a bikini at this time too because of the soft jelly skin I have there and I hate that... I am thinking it is a cellulite situation at this point... I am seriously considering using some lotions that I can find at my local walgreens to see if that will work...granted I also want to lose the last 6 lbs--and I am working on that, but I am willing to try anything at this point!!! good luck to you, and hey try the cellulite lotions as well...you never know what might help!!! Happy mylotting.

I too went back to normal after my first child, but my second child wrecked the place! LOL I had a very big baby belly wih him, and it tore my abdominal muscles so badly that I had a hernia above my belly button which was very painful and I needed surgery for. My son is now almost two and I still have the belly, and I hate it. I was always a thin woman and for the most part I still kind of am, but with the stupid damage to my belly muscles I still look pregnant and it is destroying my self esteem. I still have pain where the surgery was (operated on in November 2007) and I have that jelly skin there too. I've read that it is due to the vertical muscles of the abdomen separating while the baby belly grows, women who have C-sections are less likely to suffer this after effect since the doctor usually will sew those muscles back together after he takes the baby out. I don't know of any non-surgical solutions, since I heard even situps and crunches won't get those vertical muscles back togeter or fix the tone of hte skin, but I post here to share my sotry so you know you're not alone, and hopefully next timne I check this discussion maybe someone else will have posted a solution I can try too. Best wishes to you, if that avatar is a current pic of you I'd say you still look pretty good! I bet your belly doesn't look as bad as you think it looks though, we as women are so very hard on ourselves over how we think we look.

I have had the same problem after having only one child. I got stretch marks also and a stretched out stomach. I hate it. I have tried just about everything for years to tighten it up or get rid of that flab and nothing helps. I would love to know also. I cannot afford surgery either.

Do you work out regularly? If affordable you might consider working out with a personal trainer so you can target that particular area.