how long does it take your uterus to go to it's original size after birth. not breast feeding.
2007-01-23 04:11:25 · 6 answers · asked by caligirl 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
By the time you give birth, your uterus is about 15 times heavier (not including its contents!) and holds at least 500 times more than before you conceived. Within minutes after your baby is born, contractions cause your uterus to begin to shrink, clenching itself like a fist, its crisscrossed fibers tightening in the same way they do during labor. This may cause you to feel cramps known as afterpains.
For the first couple of days after birth, you can feel the top of your uterus at or a few finger widths below the level of your belly button. In a week your uterus weighs about a pound — half what it weighed at delivery. After two weeks it's down to a mere 11 ounces and located entirely within your pelvis. By four to six weeks, it's back to its normal pre-pregnancy weight of about 2 1/2 ounces. This process is called involution of the uterus.
I found this on babycenter
2007-01-23 04:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by shorty 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Within a few days, it is about 80% back to normal and completely retreated behind the public bone within the first two weeks. Even if you aren't breast feeding, you should feel some contractions as it shrinks back.
If you are hoping your belly size is related to your uterus, it isn't. The stretching of the skin will retreat a little, but the biggest part of the size is actually the extra water that you are probably shedding by the gallon! You won't be able to see how much extra skin you have, or how much weight there is to lose, until you are six weeks postpartum.
Worrying about is before hand is just useless!
Here are some very valuable articles about your recovery from childbirth.
2007-01-23 12:21:22 · answer #2 · answered by baggyk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say a good 3 months!! Remember that all the docs say that it takes you 9 months to get that way give your self nine months to get back to a similar size!! I had no problem loosing the weight ..I was back to my size after 2 months
2007-01-23 12:25:59 · answer #3 · answered by mommy of 2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6 weeks
2007-01-23 12:13:47 · answer #4 · answered by Shannon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably wont ever go back to its original pre-pregnant size. It will get maybe 80% there, i think about 12 weeks or so.
2007-01-23 12:15:50 · answer #5 · answered by motherhendoulas 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Umm should i stop coming over?
2007-01-23 12:14:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋