[lights76]

My baby is 9 months old and I still nurse/pump. I have heard you hold onto about 10 pounds when you your nurse. Any truth to that in your experience?

[ncuneo]

I didn't, I actually got 10lbs under my prepregnacy weight while I was still nursing/pumping. I nursed/pumped until my son was 14.5 months.

[RMatS]

Five pounds disappeared almost overnight once I stopped.

[Gale02]

I lost 7 lbs almost immediately after I stopped nursing.

[astrophe]

I nursed well into toddlerhood. Since we did child led weaning, it was a low slow taper. I didn't notice any weight change.

I imagine if one is weaning at the year or in that neighborhood, it would be more dramatic a change.

For us, it isn't like toward the end she was taking in lots and lots of milk -- my production had gone way down and it was like the 5-10 min nurse right before bed that was our only nursing time. What could that possible be? A few ounces at best? Certainly not anything to note on the scale.

A.

[mom4life]

I did the same as "astrophe" I nursed mine till they were 2.5 yrs and they self weaned, I never noticed a difference. As they started weaning my supply went down gradually till I was dry.

[thesame7lbs]

I nursed my three for just over a year each, and each time I was able to lose the baby weight (from the 160s down to the low 130s) while I was nursing. With my third, I lost the weight by the time he was 7 months and I was still nursing quite a bit (with the first two I didn't lose the last few pounds until later, when they were nursing less).

HTH!

[1bighog]

Not me; I was at my lowest weight ever while nursing. I quickly put on 10 pounds when I stopped nursing my two boys.

[fatmad]

I'd echo what is said here, and have the experiences of hundreds of breastfeeding mums to go by. If you wean quickly when you have a high milk production, you will notice a bigger drop. However, its not likely that you are holding on to the weight, as much as the breasts themselves have stores that will shrink. So if you see a 5-10 pound drop, you might notice it more in the bra than in the waistband.

[ennay]

With my first I struggled to lose and I nursed her for 22 months

With my second I lost weight easily but regained some when I weaned at 26 months. I had a hard time compensating for the calorie drop. It was slow weaning over a year in which I gained slowly and then a big jump a month after I weaned completely.

[roxmysox]

Originally Posted by astrophe

I nursed well into toddlerhood. Since we did child led weaning, it was a low slow taper. I didn't notice any weight change.

ditto