News Flash: Childbirth Changes Your Body
Posted by Cottontimer on 24 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Motherhood, What the @#!
Most reasonable women are aware that once you’ve expanded to carry a baby for 40 weeks then give birth to one, your body will never be the same again. And yet some people still think that they should be back to their pre-pregnancy body within three months of childbirth.
News flash: No matter how much you diet or exercise and even if you get back to the same weight or less, your body will never be the same again. The snug jeans you loved will not fit the same, your belly will be looser, your boobs bigger, your feet may have widened, and most everything on your person will shift around to some degree.
Those who think they will be back to the same same after childbirth are going to be those nutters we see who keep at plastic surgery time and again in a hopelessly freakish attempt to retrieve their youth. Good luck to ya! I’ve got far better things to do with my time than moan about my post-baby body.
It’s different. It’s new (to me). But it does what it’s meant to do. Good enough for me.
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Childbirth and motherhood is not some kind of terrible disease, that we should be ashamed of. I might miss my pre-baby body on occasion, but I agree with you. It does what it needs to do (usually) and I have better things to do with my time than to try to look like something I’m not. Saggy bits and some wrinkles and a few silver hairs come with getting older.
At one time, elders were held in places of honor, valued for their experience and wisdom. We’re not ever going to get back to that sort of culture if we all put masks on ourselves to hide our years. I was “Mrs”d by one of my son’s teammates this fall … lol! It was a bit of a shock to realize I indeed am middle-aged. O.O
You know, I was thinking maybe I don’t miss my pre-baby body because I was never all that svelte to begin with! And the post-baby upper chest expansion is very much welcome. HAHA