One more interesting observation about different body types. Just anecdotally, I’ve noticed that women who have naturally larger breasts (C+ cups…can I say that?) before pregnancy tend to retain more fat after pregnancy. The ones who “snap back” tend to be very small-chested prior to pregnancy.

Not just talking about “fat” women with large chests, but also the lucky “normal/fit” types with large breasts who later have kids…it’s like a “fat storing” switch gets turned on during pregnancy and never gets turned back off for these women.

Sorry if that’s TMI or way too O/T. It’s just something that is about 90%+ accurate, based on what I’ve seen. It would be interesting to study how this relates to fat/calorie storage, and if there’s some evolutionary trend that causes some women to retain fat/calories vs. expend it.