Dangerous rise of Ozempic mummy makeover: Experts warn against trend for new mothers using weight loss jabs to shed baby weight

New mothers were coming warned against taking weight nonaccomplishment jabs aft giving commencement successful a bid to shed their babe weight. 

The narcotics — including Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy — person been hailed arsenic a monumental breakthrough successful nan warfare connected obesity.

But a concerning caller inclination has seen postpartum women boasting online of losing much than 20lbs connected nan injections conscionable weeks aft giving birth.

Others person admitted to sharing nan narcotics pinch different mothers 'at nan schoolhouse gate' successful bid get into pre-baby jeans.

Experts however, warned nan inclination posed a 'real danger' to caller Mums and urged women against utilizing nan medicine while breastfeeding. 

It is feared nan medicine could beryllium passed to their newborns risking yet chartless complications. 

Professor Alex Miras, an master successful endocrinology astatine Ulster University told MailOnline: 'These medications are not a speedy hole for anyone and must only beryllium utilized agelong word by group who unrecorded pinch obesity and its complications. 

'They should ne'er beryllium utilized for cosmetic reasons only aliases by caller mums if they are breastfeeding.

'Theoretically, erstwhile breastfeeding, the medicine could beryllium passed to nan child.'

Concerningly, however, experts do not yet cognize 'what nan imaginable broadside effects are because we person zero information to pass us' he added.

'Like immoderate medication, for immoderate disease, medical monitoring and supervision is vital.'

It comes arsenic 1 mum-of-three, who has a BMI of conscionable 21.7 — nan little extremity of nan 'normal' scope —  warned of nan dangers of utilizing nan jab postpartum aft accidentally taking an overdose of Wegovy pinch a friend. 

London-based journalist Charlotte Griffiths, told MailOnline they offered to stock nan prescription-only jab arsenic a 'fun experiment'. 

Yet, it was only aft she was near pinch 'savage' encephalon fog, migraine symptoms and was 'violently sick' 3 times, she realised she'd taken 4 times nan recommended starting dose. 

She added: 'Weight-loss jabs for illustration Wegovy person been a basking taxable of speech astatine my children's schoolhouse gates successful westbound London for months – who is utilizing it, what it's for illustration and, crucially, really to get it. 

'Women get together erstwhile they want to suffer a fewer pounds, possibly a fewer weeks earlier a holiday, without nan faff of fare and exercise, by having a spell connected "The Pen", arsenic it's known.'

Under NHS guidelines, nan jabs should beryllium offered only to group who person a BMI of astatine slightest 30 and 1 weight-related wellness condition, specified arsenic precocious humor unit aliases diabetes. 

Yet 1 of Ms Griffiths friends told her location were pharmacists who could beryllium sweet-talked into handing complete a prescription. 

Others had gone to backstage doctors, while immoderate had managed to get it from online pharmacies by lying astir their weight.

On Instagram, influencer Holly Connolly besides shared really she utilized Mounjaro to 'feel amended successful [her] appearance' aft welcoming her girl Cici successful March 2023. 

In an Instagram communicative which besides promoted nan institution she purchased nan jabs from, nan mum-of-one, said: 'I consciousness awesome successful each facet of my life. 

'It has been a long, dark, lonely roadworthy entering motherhood but I person travel retired stronger and sassier.

'I admit this is not for everyone, however, this is simply a highly reputable institution that I spot implicitly, I would ne'er stock thing I did not person a affirmative acquisition with.'

She was responding to a follower who had thanked her for talking astir Mounjaro and said: 'I was emotion really debased successful myself aft putting connected 60lbs successful my gestation and I was truthful hopeless to beryllium backmost successful size 10 jeans.

'When I saw you had utilized it I felt much assured utilizing thing for illustration that to thief me.

'I'm now only 20lbs distant from my extremity weight which was smaller than I started with.' 

And nan arena has go truthful communal that forum users are besides sharing their experiences of trying nan jabs to shed weight. 

In 1 Reddit group pinch complete 99,000 members, 1 said: 'I'm 4 months station partum and 3 weeks connected Ozempic. 

'My weight would not budge, and I gained 70 lbs while pregnant — contempt having terrible hyperemesis gravidarum, I sewage nan worst of some world lol.' 

They added: 'I americium very happy pinch it and deliberation it’s awesome for nan existent challenging parts of postpartum life.

'I've already mislaid immoderate weight successful nan first fewer weeks, it’s awesome to spot nan standard moving again.' 

Another said: 'I started astir 8 weeks aft my 2nd babe was born. 

'So acold it’s been soft sailing and I’m 16 pounds down.'

In a abstracted thread titled 'Ozempic for postpartum weight loss', 1 personification wrote: 'I gained 40lbs, mislaid 20 successful nan six months aft birth, and couldn’t suffer nan past 20 for nan life of maine nary matter what I did. 

'I’m connected week 7 and down 16 pounds.'

Yet experts coming urged female ne'er to consciousness rushed to 'bounce back' aft having a babe informing they could beryllium putting their ain wellness astatine risk.

Huddersfield-based aesthetics practitioner and erstwhile NHS nurse, Jen Vittanuova, told MailOnline: 'I perfectly understand nan unit galore caller mums consciousness to ‘bounce back’ aft having a baby. 

'But postpartum is simply a clip for healing, not rushing to suffer weight. 

'Weight-loss injections whitethorn look for illustration a speedy fix, but they airs existent risks - disrupting hormones, impacting humor sugar, and causing dehydration. 

'For caller mothers needing unchangeable power and mood, these broadside effects tin beryllium particularly harmful.

'Giving yourself clip and abstraction arsenic your assemblage heals is necessary, it’s a gradual journey.'

Professor Nerys Astbury, an master successful fare and obesity astatine nan University of Oxford, besides told MailOnline: 'Breastfeeding besides uses a batch of energy, and trying to suffer weight astatine nan aforesaid clip whitethorn effect beverage proviso and value — and could besides effect caller mum's nutritional health. 

She added: 'Taking unprescribed medications including weight nonaccomplishment jabs purchased online carries a risk.

'If obtained online, patients doctors will not beryllium alert and this could person important implications erstwhile treating immoderate broadside effects they whitethorn experience.'

Pharmaceutical patient Novo Nordisk, semaglutide manufacturer, besides advises women to extremity taking nan weight loss narcotics astatine slightest 2 months earlier a planned pregnancy.

Research connected rats, rabbits and monkeys has shown nan weight nonaccomplishment medications could consequence successful miscarriage and commencement defects if taken while pregnant. 

The injections instrumentality nan encephalon into reasoning it's full, result slashing appetite and stopping users from overeating.

But for illustration immoderate medication, nan jabs tin person known broadside effects that alteration successful some wave and severity, including nausea, constipation, diarrhoea, fatigue, tummy pain, headaches and dizziness. 

Some patients person besides suffered hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment while connected them.

The UK's medicines watchdog nan Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) besides announced 46 Brits had been hospitalised pinch 'gastrointestinal reactions' relating to nan jabs, arsenic of August 16. 

Fake versions too, sold for up to £280 a battalion have near patients fighting for their lives in comas.

Last week Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced nan Government planned to connection weight nonaccomplishment jabs to nan unemployed successful a bid to get them successful style and backmost to work. 

But yesterday he issued a associated alert pinch UK supplier regulators amid increasing concerns nan 'serious medication' is being abused by group wanting to shed pounds for cosmetic reasons.

The wellness caput said nan injections should only beryllium utilized by obese group who person grounded to displacement weight done fare and workout not those looking to 'get a body-beautiful image for Instagram'.