The Shape of a Mother.
I’ve been thinking and posting a lot lately about weight loss. So much drive to change my body, to make it be something that it was before I was pregnant, something it may not have been for even 10 years before that. (I’m not 18 any more, ya know?)
Many of the changes I’m making are healthy ones, but at the end of the day, part of my self-negotiations is always a little bit of shame about my size.
In light of all this, I would like to remind myself of The Shape of a Mother, and to share it with you. The way my stomach has changed since carrying Sami in it is PERMANENT. I am not sure I’d want it any other way. I may want and need to lose the baby/stress/life weight, but I’d never want to “undo” my baby space.
I don’t look at the site nearly enough. It is so important to stay body positive, to remember that a person isn’t defined by their weight alone, and that if carrying around a few extra pounds were the price I have to pay for the child I love (even though we all know it isn’t), it would be worth it.
Besides, there’s beauty in a curved belly. We can’t all be washboards; how boring!
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I love that site, but I’m always amazed – and a little saddened, to be honest – by how many of the contributors are 18 and under.
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I know. I just read the post of the now-16 year old girl married, with a baby, buying a house. She sounds stable, but when I think about myself at 16, I know I wasn’t ready. It seems so young for all that!
Good to keep that in mind… I’m not wanting to make my life anything like it was when I was younger – I’m in a MUCH better place now… I just want to be more fit. And I know I can do it – I did it last summer, in fact!!
I WANT A GIANT OLYMPIC POOL IN MY BACKYARD!!
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