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Context: Weight gain experienced by pregnant women needs to be monitored to ensure the ideal body weight nutrition. It can be reduced by monitoring body weight during pregnancy and encouraging mothers to provide exclusive breast feeding and physical training after 6 weeks of postpartum care. The study was conducted in the Keputih Health Center cacthment in Surabaya because coverage of high exclusive breast feeding macit. The study aimed to prove whether exclusive breast feeding is a dominant factor in naturally decreasing postpartum maternal weight. The were all mothers who had babies aged 6-7 months. That a sample of 25 mothers is obtained. Data analysis using descriptive analysis, chi-square analysis and using logistic regression analysis. The results showed that 84.6% of postpartum mothers had a weight loss of 0.5- 12 kg and 11.5% had increased. There is a significant relationship between exclusive breast feeding with the decreasing of in maternal postpartum weight with a value of C = 0.432 and OR 1.0, which means that mothers who give exclusive breast feeding have the opportunity to experience weight loss from mothers who give breast feeding un exclusively. And there is a weak relationship between variables of physical activity with a decrease in maternal postpartum weight with a value of C = 0.275. So the variable that has a significant relationship in postpartum maternal weight loss is exclusive breast feeding, so the importance of the postpartum mother to give exclusive breast feeding during the first 6 months is supported by high physical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]