{"id":1068,"date":"2013-10-08T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:01:56","slug":"losing-the-baby-weight-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Losing the Baby Weight: Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has been mainly spent in hospital as baby Judah lost a little too much weight. Now most babies tend to lose some weight post-birth and they are allowed to lose up to 10% of their birthweight with no concerns. Little Judah ended up losing 15% of his birthweight so we were admitted for tests and monitoring.<\/p>\n

Now hospital is not a fun place to be and with all the tests, feeding and being in a hospital room it became 5 days of mainly sitting and lying down with occasional sleeping \ud83d\ude09 So all the gentle walks I had been planning didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

On of the questions the medical team had was over my milk supply and quality, so I focused a lot on feeding, expressing milk and eating well. You need an extra 3-500kcals per day when breastfeeding. The best thing is to ensure your meals are all balanced and then to eat according to appetite. I find I\u2019m often hungriest last thing at night and at the night feeds.<\/p>\n

All that feeding and expressing seems to be doing the trick as I\u2019ve definitely lost weight this week and I\u2019m back in my \u201cslightly large, extra comfy\u201d jeans – you know the type I mean. I\u2019ve done a couple of very basic pilates exercises on occasions including single knee folds, pelvic tilts and standing heel floats. Don\u2019t rush to get back into exercise at this point, just settle into getting to know your baby but do think about your posture when feeding and carrying baby. Stand\/Sit tall, imagine you are lifted by the crown of your head towards the ceiling, slide your shoulder blades down in your back, have your weight balanced evenly over both feet and try to keep your lower back in a neutral position.<\/p>\n

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Bump to Birth Pilates: Day 14 post-birth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Top Tips:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Make sure you eat extra to enable your body to provide enough milk and good quality milk needed for baby.<\/li>\n
  • Keep a snack box handy filled with healthy items you can munch on as you feed. For example healthy flapjack, nuts, raw veggies and hummous, oatcakes and peanut butter, dried fruit and cereal bars all feature in mine.<\/li>\n
  • Keep going with your pelvic floor exercises, try to do these each time you feed baby.<\/li>\n
  • If you can build in a couple of short, gentle walks.<\/li>\n
  • Remember your posture.<\/li>\n
  • Look out now for post-natal exercise classes and pilates classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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