Let me just start by saying my wife is Wonder Woman, or perhaps she just has tapeworm, for when Nicole got pregnant for the first time she lost all her baby weight in six months.  And this was no cute couple of pounds. Nicole had put on 100 pounds (or about 75 kittens). Seriously, here is a picture at Christmas time when she was bigger than the tree:

(Picture deleted by blogger's wife. It is not clear why she has access to the blogging network.)

I'd pass along her weight-loss technique, but it's a safely guarded secret that involves cases of Diet Pepsi , nicotine and a fey, wish-granting miniature space alien named Frazoo.  Now it turns out the aspartame-poisoning, smoker's hack and putting up with Frazoo's inability to wear even the most basic of clothing and conceal his space bits was all for not.  Turns out Nicole could have lost all that weight by getting more sleep.

This study shows that women who get five hours of sleep or less a night retained an average of 11 pounds more than new mothers who got seven hours or more. Part of the reason is sleep deprivation causes your brain to send appetite-inducing chemicals making one feel constantly hungry.

Now, we all know why mom is not getting sleep; there is a little someone who wants to eat at all hours. As result, you want to eat at all hours.  So maybe now you have the husband do the late-night feedings.  Let him get fat. It's not like he has plans to wear a two-piece.