My favorite thing about nursing twins is how much weight I am losing! It’s amazing! I eat whatever I want, and the weight keeps falling off, and now I’m wearing a size 4! I do feel like I am getting too thin, though…. do any of you have any meal suggestions to help me put on weight?
Sometimes the Facebook La Leche Group For Nursing Multiples group is a real source of help.
Sometimes it makes me just want to stab people.
I swear, if I hear one more person complain about how nursing makes them lose weight too fast, I’m gonna track down their home address just so I can throw a brick at their head.
Maybe nursing=weight loss for some people, but for me…. for me it just makes my body go into “CONSERVE ALL THE CALORIES” mode, even with nursing double time. I mean…. I am already gluten free for my health, but because of the twins’ stomach sensitivities I’ve had to go dairy and soy free as well.
Is that sinking in? I am exclusively nursing TWINS on a dairy, gluten, and soy free diet….. and I haven’t lost a single pound since the first week after I gave birth.
I really do think I missed my calling to live on a prairie and raise 18 babies. If I lived on a prairie I imagine my ability to stay fat and healthy while nursing twins would be a real bragging point. I bet we’d go to all the… errr…. corn-shucking parties? (is that what olden-time prairie people did for fun?) and all the women would flock to me.
“Becky, look at your ample thighs!” they’d exclaim. “Look at that back roll! Can I touch it? Can I touch your back roll and jiggly arms? You’re so impressive!” they’d fawn. “How do you stay so fat, even though you’re been nursing your passel full o’ kids for years and years?”
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Sigh, you get the point. I was going to joke about this further, but after I typed the phrase “passel full o’ kids” I realized I really would have had something like 18 babies if I’d lived on the prairie in the 1800s, and the daydream kind of made me shudder. Maybe I’m better off in my current lifestyle.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to bed, without even proofreading this stream-of-consciousness bit of writing. This post is brought to you by extreme, extreeeeeme sleep deprivation… but (if I can take a moment to pat myself on the back) – there was a post. Go me, actually managing to post every single day for 11 days straight!
Anyways, I really am off to bed, but not without asking…. if get a moment, can you cross your fingers that Magpie would actually sleep tonight? I don’t think she slept more than 45 minutes at a stretch last night, combined with Finn’s normal 2-3 times of waking.. I’m feeling pretty ragged.
