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Congratulations on your new arrival! Maintaining a healthy lifestyle during this exhausting time can be challenging! Here you’ll discover tips and advice on healthy eating while breastfeeding, weight loss after pregnancy, some time-saving family recipes and much more.

Breastfeeding

If you’ve chosen to breastfeed your baby, this will have huge benefits for you both.

Your weight after pregnancy

It’s advisable to check with your midwife or GP before attempting to lose weight or starting to exercise after the birth of your baby.

Healthy eating tips

Being a new parent can be overwhelming and very tiring, so trying to follow a healthy balanced diet at this time can be a challenge.

Keeping active

There’s no denying it, being a parent is exhausting! But there are lots of ways to incorporate activity into your day.

Recipes

Real life stories

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This website has been created in partnership by Slimming World and The Royal College of Midwives and is hosted by Slimming World.

Please talk to your midwife or GP for personal support and advice. We recommend you always follow any specific advice you have been given by a health care professional and talk to your midwife or GP if you have any concerns.

Note: in our pregnancy and breastfeeding materials, we refer to women, mums-to-be and expecting mums. Please take this to include people of any gender identity who are a new parent or are expecting a baby. Likewise, where we use the term parent, we include anyone who has the main responsibility for caring for a child.