It's about as eager to go away, too. Only exercise helps return the abdominal wall to normal, says Sylvia Wood, an assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma and president of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. But when they are able to, I've seen women who've had two, three, four babies whose abdomens are flat as boards. Yet even crunch fanatics often seem to feel that their abdomens never get quite as flat as before. Once the glandular tissue that was primed for lactation is no longer needed and shrinks back down, many women find that their breasts have changed again.
Some mothers are even smaller than before they started, but some report staying larger.
The differences may be related to your postdelivery weight, says Wood. Stretch Marks Pregnancy can also leave its mark on skin, most noticeably in the form of tiny scars that show up primarily on the belly and breasts. A famous but fortunately temporary aftereffect of having a baby. Pregnancy hormones put hair follicles into a resting state, which interrupts the regular cycle of replacement. When the normal hormone pattern kicks back in, all the held-over hairs start falling out at once.