Of course, for some women, losing their baby weight is as much about convenience as it is about body image. “Lugging those extra pounds around wasn’t fun,” says Nadia. She had two children in her mid-30s and had trouble dropping the weight after her first child was born. But after she had her second, “I only lost about 15 or 20 immediately, but then the rest just came off over the first couple months, and I was back to my pre-pregnancy weight by the time she was a few months old,” she remembers.
