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Think about breastfeeding.
As well as being a wise choice for your child, anecdotal evidence suggests that breastfeeding can help you lose weight. There’s no medical data to prove this, and it doesn’t work for every woman, but there’s way more good than harm to be had in trying.

c. 2007, Stacy Denney and Kate Hodson from Fit Mama: A Real-Life Fitness Guide for the New Mom, Chronicle Books.

Authors of Fit Mama: A Real-Life Fitness Guide for the New Mom, Stacy Denney and Kate Hodson are fit mamas themselves. However, they know from personal experience that it doesn’t happen overnight. Stacy is the author of Spa Mama, the mother to Maxwell and Ryan, and the owner of Barefoot & Pregnant, a day spa in Marin County, California. Born in England, Kate is the author of Milk It: How to Get More Than a Baby Out of the Next Nine Months, and is mother to Molly, Phoebe and Theo. She currently lives in Berkeley, California.