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OK so I'm considering breast feeding but today I was informed that I won't lose any baby weight if I do,  help ladies!!
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I would rather breastfeed and be my pregnant size than to ever give my baby formula. I want her to be as healthy as possible.
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You definitely loose weight by breastfeeding.
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Every time your baby eats, while breastfeeding, you burn five hundred calories. I didn't lose weight while breastfeeding, due to having hypothyroidism after being pregnant, but a lot of women do lose a lot of if not all their baby weight.
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Breastfeeding makes you lose weight. I have a few friends who slimmed down back to their original weight within a couple weeks post partum because they chose to breast feed. I'll be breastfeeding once my son is born
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Had my baby 8 days ago and have lost a little more than a pound a day :)
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Look up the pros and cons of breast feeding vs formula. I want to try my hardest to breast feed because the pros are so amazing
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Losing weight is a plus but its much more healthy for baby. He can't be greedy anymore. . Its daddy time. Gotta do what's best for baby.
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You lose 500 calories a day.
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Is it the same for every woman body,  my fiance dosent wants me to breast feed at all ( he's being greedy with the boobs) so he has all kinds of negative comments towards breast feeding lol
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I lost a bunch of weight when i breastfed my daughter. I was smaller then my prepregnancy weight within 2 weeks.
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Actually you loose the weight much faster. I bf my daughter for almost 3 weeks, and I lost 25 pounds from when I delivered until that point. I was going to keep bf, but had to have emergency surgery, so I wasn't able to continue.  
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You lose all your baby weight an more when you breastfeed.
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I have heard of some qomen loosing like 11 pounds in a week just from breastfeeding.
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It's the opposite...you lose weight when you breastfeed.  
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