diff --git a/.changeset/cold-tigers-count.md b/.changeset/cold-tigers-count.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..29ed24f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/cold-tigers-count.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'@fetchkit/ffetch': patch
+---
+
+Fixed
+
+- Clone request on each retry attempt to prevent body-already-used error when retrying POST requests with a body
diff --git a/src/client.ts b/src/client.ts
index 9eea312..371ee50 100644
--- a/src/client.ts
+++ b/src/client.ts
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ export function createClient<
                   )
                 }
               }
-              const reqWithSignal = new Request(requestForAttempt, {
+              const reqWithSignal = new Request(requestForAttempt.clone(), {
                 signal: dispatchSignal,
               })
               try {
diff --git a/test/core/client.test.ts b/test/core/client.test.ts
index e026dc9..c880072 100644
--- a/test/core/client.test.ts
+++ b/test/core/client.test.ts
@@ -319,6 +319,48 @@ describe('retry', () => {
     await expect(f('https://example.com')).rejects.toThrow('boom')
     expect(global.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3)
   })
+
+  it('retries a POST request with a JSON body — succeeds on second attempt', async () => {
+    // Regression: without the fix, the retry throws
+    // "Cannot construct a Request with a Request object that has already been used."
+    // because the body of the original Request is consumed on the first attempt.
+    let calls = 0
+    global.fetch = vi.fn().mockImplementation(async () => {
+      calls++
+      if (calls === 1) return new Response('upstream error', { status: 500 })
+      return new Response('ok', { status: 200 })
+    })
+
+    const f = createClient({ retries: 1 })
+    const res = await f('https://example.com/api', {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ key: 'value' }),
+    })
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200)
+    expect(calls).toBe(2)
+  })
+
+  it('retries a POST request with a JSON body — all attempts return 500, no TypeError thrown', async () => {
+    // Regression: without the fix, the second attempt throws TypeError instead of
+    // returning the upstream 500 response.
+    let calls = 0
+    global.fetch = vi.fn().mockImplementation(async () => {
+      calls++
+      return new Response('upstream error', { status: 500 })
+    })
+
+    const f = createClient({ retries: 2 })
+    const res = await f('https://example.com/api', {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ key: 'value' }),
+    })
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(500)
+    expect(calls).toBe(3)
+  })
 })
 
 describe('retry with shouldRetry', () => {
diff --git a/test/integration/retry-post-body.integration.test.ts b/test/integration/retry-post-body.integration.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0d7ddd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/retry-post-body.integration.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// @vitest-environment node
+// This test MUST run in the Node.js environment (not happy-dom) because only
+// Node.js/undici enforces the Fetch API spec rule that constructing a new Request
+// from an already-consumed Request throws:
+//   "Cannot construct a Request with a Request object that has already been used."
+// happy-dom silently copies the body, masking the regression.
+
+import { createServer } from 'node:http'
+import type { Server, IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from 'node:http'
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest'
+import { createClient } from '../../src/client.js'
+
+let server: Server
+let baseUrl: string
+let requestHandler: (req: IncomingMessage, res: ServerResponse) => void
+
+beforeAll(
+  () =>
+    new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      server = createServer((req, res) => requestHandler(req, res))
+      server.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', () => {
+        const addr = server.address() as { port: number }
+        baseUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${addr.port}`
+        resolve()
+      })
+    })
+)
+
+afterAll(
+  () =>
+    new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      server.close(() => resolve())
+    })
+)
+
+describe('retry POST with body — Node.js native fetch (undici)', () => {
+  it('succeeds on retry after 500 without throwing body-already-used error', async () => {
+    let callCount = 0
+    requestHandler = (_req, res) => {
+      callCount++
+      if (callCount === 1) {
+        res.writeHead(500, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' })
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: 'upstream error' }))
+      } else {
+        res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' })
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ ok: true }))
+      }
+    }
+
+    const f = createClient({ retries: 1 })
+    const res = await f(`${baseUrl}/api`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ key: 'value' }),
+    })
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200)
+    expect(callCount).toBe(2)
+  })
+
+  it('exhausts all retries with body without throwing body-already-used error', async () => {
+    let callCount = 0
+    requestHandler = (_req, res) => {
+      callCount++
+      res.writeHead(500, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' })
+      res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: 'upstream error' }))
+    }
+
+    const f = createClient({ retries: 2 })
+    const res = await f(`${baseUrl}/api`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ key: 'value' }),
+    })
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(500)
+    expect(callCount).toBe(3)
+  })
+})