Post-baby bodies

Let’s talk about our post-baby bodies. Our Mum tums, and love handles, and more.

The human body is an incredible thing, the fact that we can make other human beings inside us is extraordinary really. We put ourselves through nine months of incredibly hard work making and protecting our babies until they’re ready to come earthside. Then after nine long months, when they are ready to say hello, we give birth. Whether by natural birth or c-section, the process of giving birth takes a huge toll on our bodies- but we survive it and come straight out of it ready to care for our babies.

I love my post-baby body!

In the first few weeks of TinyHuman’s life, I loved my post-baby body. I looked in the mirror at my squishy, stretch-mark covered belly and felt nothing but love for the body that housed my baby and brought him safely into my arms.

I thought back to the months of carrying TinyHuman, the horrors of childbirth and the fact that I just got straight up and began being his mother. Women really have superpowers.

I hate my post-baby body!

TinyHuman is nearly three months old now and that love for my post-baby body has long since disappeared. Now I look at it and feel resentment.

This body once fit into all my clothes, I carried it with pride. Now, I open my wardrobe desperately hoping that something in there fits me.

I love and hate my post-baby body!

I have a real love-hate relationship with this post-baby body of mine, but that’s okay. My body carried and protected my son from the moment he was conceived until the moment I gave birth to him, and for that I will forever be grateful. I can work on getting into the shape I was if I really want too. No matter whether I decide to stay the way I am now or try to change the way I look, one thing is still really important.

It’s important to try to love my body!