Was previously a size 8-10: Emily Chilton with her baby Holly, left, along with her husband Mark when she was slimmer
They've three daughters: Leah, nine, Lucy, two, about three? month Holly. Their first baby died aged eight months from meningitis.
Emily will stop breastfeeding Holly because she's desperate to lose the first she's gained since the birth.
'I've always been a size 6-8, along with every one of my four pregnancies I continued to nibble on healthily and grow active inside a bid never to pile on
weight menova qianweisu slimming herbs capsule ,' says Emily, a former underwriter for any shipping-insurance company. 'I gained almost 3st during each pregnancy but a lot of that has been fluid retention. The weight melted away after the births but crept on again after i started feeding.
'I only fed Leah for one month, so the impact was minimal. With Lucy I breastfed for 2 months, when I gained half a stone. Since breastfeeding Holly I've
been gaining around 2lb per week, i have at least 20lb to lose.
'Although the main reason I wanted to breastfeed was the point that it turned out great for my kids, everything I read about breastfeeding within my last
pregnancy included the material it would help me lose weight. It was endorsed inside my NCT class, and then there would have been a huge poster outlining
each of the incentives to breastfeed, including weight loss.
'I'm it's unlikely that any of those girls that enjoys pregnancy. I hated looking and feeling fat, and pinned a lot of hope on breastfeeding helping me to
lose the weight more rapidly this time. However the opposite has happened.'
Emily along with her daughters: She hoped breastfeeding them would help her lose the baby weight but she's bigger now than she's been
So are the maternity mafia guilty of misleading women into breastfeeding, using the commitment of getting their figure back, or are new mums responsible
simply by overindulging?
Sioned Quirke, a dietician who advises women on nutrition during after pregnancy as well as a spokeswoman for that British Dietetic Association, says the
problem is that women are just told half the storyplot. 'Essentially it's hype used to make breastfeeding attractive to ladies who want to get their figures
back and might not otherwise breastfeed,' she claims.
'But breastfeeding is a very sedentary activity, women commonly experience ravenous hunger while feeding, and hormone changes often leads the crooks to hold
on tight to pregnancy weight super slim pomegranate diet pills pounds or gain brand new ones.
'And many believe that since they are being told their body will burn all these extra calories, it's really a licence to nibble on more.'
Although Hannah promises to continue breastfeeding her son until he's annually old so he'll get the most benefits, she despairs in regards to the effect on
her body.
'As someone who's always taken a pride in having a slim figure, it's heartbreaking that my waist is three inches bigger pre-pregnancy and my dress dimensions
are a 14-16,' she says.