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Loosing too much weight after baby?

So my baby girl is 9 days old, and I've lost 21 pounds. I'm worried that this is too much weight.  Before I got pregnant I was 175, and I lost 25 in the first 3 months. I got down to 150. Now I'm 5 foot 9, so 150 is very light for me. I hadn't been that light since before I hit puberty.  I was skin and bones it got so bad. I gained that weight back, making my weight before delivery 177. I'm back down to 156 now. I am breastfeeding, but I eat all the time, and don't exercise.  I'm just wondering if this is normal or not.
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It's normal hun try gaining back healthy weight by eating healtht foods and strength training when you get the ok. I lost 30lbs before i left the hospital with my son and another 20 in 3 weeks it's all the water weight and your body going back to normal.
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Thats what happened with my first pregnancy with my son I was always a little chubby I weighed 180 when I went into labor after labor I weighed 145 2 weeks after that I was down to 130 the smallest I had ever been in my life so I went to the doctors about it they said since I was all around healthy they didnt see a problem with it
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