Keep this in mind.... an average newborn baby weighs 8lbs.

Mine weighed 4lbs 13ozs and 6lbs 3ozs.

Give or take 5 pounds for water retention.

So if the baby weighed 10lb and give 10lbs for water retention

the placenta. We are talking 25lbs.

If you gain much more than that it stays after the

baby is born.

The more you put on the harder it is to take off.

I think I gained a total of 36 lbs with each pregnancy.

I had a much harder time taking the weight off the second time.