Let’s Talk About Shape
by FireMom ~ February 19th, 2008. Filed under: Health.Like what you're reading? Subscribe to our feed.
No. Not shapes. I’m not talking triangles and ovals, the latter of which are fondly referred to as “vovals” in this FireHouse. No. I’m talking shape. Singular. My shape. Because, wow, I’m not familiar with this shape at all.
I’ve hit my Pre-Pregnancy Weight. Mmhmm. Just a week shy of the three month mark and my scale is weighing me in a pound below what I weighed on my first prenatal visit. But before you shower me with confetti and start sending cookies, well, don’t. At all. Because this? Ain’t nothin’ to celebrate.
You see. The scale seems to be reading the same weight. But my pants? They didn’t get the message and don’t seem to remember how to fit. And the shape, singular, that my body now possesses? Well, it’s nothing like my pre-pregnancy shape. I’ve got flub in places that weren’t all that flubby. I’ve got a pair of hips that have not yet returned back to their normal place of function. I mean, I expected my breasts to be completely different. But everything else?
This is all further confirmation that no two (or more!) pregnancies and their postpartum healing process function in the same manner. After BigBrother, I was in my normal pants by three months but didn’t hit the pre-pregnancy weight until almost ten months later. What’s with this opposite action status this time around? What’s going on with these daggone hips?
All that said and contrary to what this post might lead you to believe, I’m still not that fixated on the whole issue (as of yet). Our lives have been ridiculously busy (in good ways and bad) all this month (and most of last) and I just don’t have time to worry about it too much. In fact, I’d like to be worrying more. I’d actually like to make the final decision and join whichever gym I think will work best. But I’m too busy to clean my bathroom. (No, really.) So the gym isn’t a high priority. I’ve been eating healthy, keeping my calories up like I should since LittleBrother is breastfeeding. But since the weather is ridiculous and random, we haven’t been walking. Except up and down the stairs with eighty bagillion loads of laundry.
I know that my body has changed. Pregnancy does that. I don’t regret it at all. But I just figured that this process would function like it had in the past and things would follow the same sort of rules. Guess not. Perhaps there are no rules. All I know is that these two-sizes-bigger jeans are starting to fall off and sag on my rear end but my regular size ones don’t yet fit. I don’t have the in-between size as I didn’t need it last time around. Perhaps I’m due for a shopping trip. Perhaps my hips need to get the memo about my weight loss.
Perhaps I’ll just continue to be creative with my clothing choices and mask the weight with various slimming layers. Until summer comes. Stupid summer.
Yes, that’s my current state of the belly. It’s my own personal The Shape of a Mother up in here.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Two words for you:
yoga pants. They did wonders for me for the in between stage (I had the same issue as you, got down weight-wise and still two sizes bigger). And they are cute with sweaters and tunics and layered shirts and…
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February 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Nak, but ditto all of this, and you are my freaking hero. I will repay you with my own squishy belly post this week.
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February 19th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
YAY SQUISHY BELLIES! …or something.
February 20th, 2008 at 1:55 am
I’d congratulate you, but I hate you. I would love to be back at my pre pregnancy weight. OR atleast getting closer to it. I know I’ll never have the same shape, and I’m pretty okay with that. But just to not feel flabby in my tummy tumm region would be glorious.
Do you remember the old <a href=”http://www.esportsonline.com/?&keyword=ab%20wheel&WEBSRC=DIDGGL”ab roller thing? Well, it’s great at getting some much needed muscle back into your tummy. I’ve been using it the past week and can feel a big difference.
Good luck with the rest of it!:) You are doing amazingly!
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February 20th, 2008 at 1:56 am
sorry I messed that tag up!
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February 20th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I told my readers I wouldn’t show them my squishy belly to save them the horror. Maybe I’ll link to a picture, so people can click at their own risk.
I’m committed to getting my body back into a shape other than “doughboy” by this summer (Hot by BlogHer, of course). I don’t expect miracles, but with some effort I think I’ll see some good progress.
Pants with drawstring waists are saving me at the moment. And the one pair of jeans I found that fit me well.
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February 21st, 2008 at 2:27 am
I’m in the boat you were after the first pregnancy - I can wear my pre-preggo pants, but the weight is still there. And they sure don’t fit the same, so I have a love/hate relationship with sweatpants. Love for the comfort/no pudge factor, hate because, well, a girl can’t live in sweatpants. Or maybe she can….
Bodies are just odd and amazing, aren’t they?
February 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
[...] because I promised Firemom over in this post she made about her post-baby body: a photo of my belly, after two babies and at least 458 cupcakes. [...]
February 21st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Thanks for pointing me here from BlogHer — you’re right, this is a great take-off on “A Letter to My Body“.
Listen, you are gorgeous and so are the kids. I found that even when the weight was gone, it took a solid year for all the parts to return to anyplace close to their previous position. And that was only after walking miles and miles behind a stroller.