Good for you that is the way, and also cook do not eat junk food which people seem to do these days. I was 40 when I had my last child and I went back again within about 2 months. I used to cook proper food though and I think that helps also. I went swimming and did a lot of walking before and after birth.

As I have got old Karen I have put on a bit more weight, and my babies were not small either - I had my son at the age of 30 (first child) and he weighed 9lbs 10oz I was 5ft 2 ins tall and weight 8½ stone when I gave birth - I breast fed him and that seems to help get my stomach back to normal and by the time he was 2 months old I weight 7stone 9lbs and was back into a size 8-10. My second child I had at 40 (I seem to get the 10 year itch) and she weighted in at 8lbs 4oz and I was 9 stone when I gave birth to her. Again I breast fed her but unfortunately my mother died the day I came out of hospital because I had to have a Caecarian with her and 2 months later my milk dried up with delayed shock at the death of my mother but my weight went back to 7stone 10lbs and again I was in sized 8-10 clothes. I used to swim when I was pregnant and do a walk a day and I think that helped. Some women cannot be bothered after they have had their children and I always maintained that my husband should not come home to a wife in jeans etc and a t-shirt I always dressed in the afternoon in a skirt and blouse in those days. It can be done.