A little background and why I wanted to start this blog.
I had my beautiful son, Jim, seven months ago. As life-changingly amazing as he is and as happy as he makes me the months immediately following his birth were absolute hell on my vanity. To clarify, I wouldn't change my life for the world, I'm just saying I could have done without the flab, the bloat, and the cornucopia of other terrifying new tricks your body learns during pregnancy and afterwards.
I had totally unrealistic expectations of all things baby courtesy of my best friend, Michelle. She's a model, I should have known, she earns a living from unrealistic expectations. The girl popped her daughter out and was back modelling three weeks later.
What was I doing three weeks after giving birth? Sitting on over stuffed cushions, jiggling, leaking and crying that the hoodie I bought in the men's section was too small for me.
Fashion was not an option and make-up was an adventure everytime... and not the good kind. And absolutely nowhere in any baby book was there a section on trying to look in anyway nice. Hell, whatever about nice, I'd settle for publicly acceptable.
I may be painting an overly dramatic picture on the bleakness of post-baby bods, maybe I didn't look that bad (no, I totally looked that bad) but it does take time to feel comfortable in your own skin after such an enormous transition.
So in a nutshell, the aim of this blog is to offer tips, advice and to let women know that there are others out there stumbling and struggling with their post baby appearance too.
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