Is it normal to be ravenously hungry all the time while breastfeeding? I'm constantly stuffing my face but it never goes away for long. We are 3 months in and I thought I would have my appetite under control by now, but maybe that's not how it works. Is there a magic, healthy-ish food that will keep me from feeling like I'm starving all the time? (on the up side, as of today I have lost all 45 lbs of pregnancy weight, woo hoo!!!)
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Thats totally normal! Keep fueling your body to help make the milk!
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I was constantly hungry after my older LO was born but not as much after my second...I breast feed and pump even more than with my first!
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Totally normal. I wasn't usually hungry during the day much, but once LO went to bed I was raiding the cabinets!
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Normal. I over indulged when I was breastfeeding and now have to lose the weight again.
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I definitely have a heftier appetite and my LO is seven months. I didn't notice my appetite go up in pregnancy, but breastfeeding is definitely making me constantly starving. I've lost all but the last two or three pounds, but trying to lose a little extra is impossible with a giant appetite.
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I was constantly starving for the first 5 or 6 months I was breastfeeding before it leveled out to something resembling normal.
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I'm right there with you. I try to eat lots of protein and fat to help keep me full longer. Even so I think I could have eaten a horse yesterday. I had three eggs and guac for breakfast and I was starving again by 8:30. I feel like when people calculate the cost savings of breast feeding they aren't taking my two extra meals a day into consideration.
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I'm almost 6 months into breastfeeding and my appetite is just starting to plateau. I was a maniac at the beginning - I would finish dinner and immediately toast a bagel because I was still hungry.
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I didn't really start to feel like ravenously hungry until week 11. Now I can eat so much! Been trying to eat more protein.
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@Corduroy: I've heard this argument before and completely agree. We've spent a lot to feed me when I was breastfeeding. Now that I'm not, the formula containers seem expensive, but probably aren't compared to how much I had to eat to produce enough for LO's daily needs.
I ate way more breastfeeding than I did gestating my little dude.
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I have a nonexistent appetite to go with my ~ 15 oz of milk/day
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You need to eat about 500 more calories per day while breastfeeding then the usual recommended daily intake. I was constantly eating when I was nursing, and still lost all my pregnancy weight and then some.
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YES - i have been ravenously hungry since breastfeeding.
i am 7 months PP and it's starting to wane, but i honestly get SO hungry sometimes still.
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I was JUST saying the same thing this morning. I'm 4.5 months pp and feel like I'm eating every hour I'm awake. I am a bottomless pit of hunger. And yet I am now 8 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight.
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Yes, I'm starving! I have breakfast...then 2nd breakfast..then a snack...then lunch...then an afternoon snack...then a pre-dinner snack...then dinner...and a bedtime snack. I'm the same weight i was pre-pregnancy at 4.5 m pp.
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Yep for a while I woke in the middle of the night out of my own hunger. Now at 6 months I finally don't need to eat and drink overnight!
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YES! I'm 5 months PP and it's starting to wane, but I think that's just because I have a cold this week. When I'm up at night with LO I'm always snacking: protein bars, cookies, whatever!
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