Embracing Your Post-Baby Body

When you’re pregnant, your body slowly grows, allowing your brain to slowly adjust to what your belly is doing. But after childbirth, it’s an abrupt switch to the post-baby body. Your belly takes time to shrink back down, your boobs are doing things they’ve never done before and growing to insane proportions, and only maternity clothes fit. After gaining X number of pounds, it’s kinda fun to hop on the scale and see that you’ve dropped 20 almost overnight. But it’s not so fun when weeks later, that loss screeches to a halt, nothing fits, your boobs are leaking everywhere, you’re dealing with a crying baby and you’re wondering just when things will get back to a new normal.

Jenn is now almost six weeks postpartum, and she recently talked about all of this and more over on Fit Bottomed Girls. The pressure she felt — and put on herself — to bounce back quickly and how she’s coping with that and kicking the negative talk to the curb. Go check it out and tell us: How do you curb the self-deprecating talk? —Erin