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  • So, um (0 / 0)

    how long can you consider your body "post-partum"? Is 11 years too long?

    by Lisa in Austin on Tue May 06, 2008 at 12:53:09 PM PDT

    • absolutely (0 / 0)

      My pre-postnatal yoga class included 2 women that described themselves as "30 years postnatal".  

      --R

      by Rocky on Tue May 06, 2008 at 12:55:47 PM PDT

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    • well (0 / 0)

      i think, forever.
      no matter how good we get our bodies to look,
      they never feel the same. at least, mine doesn't,
      and people swear i look like i have never had a kid.

      i call BS. hahhah

      We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - E.R. Murrow

      by lorin on Tue May 06, 2008 at 01:04:03 PM PDT

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      • After my first pregnancy, (0 / 0)

        My body really didn't look outwardly as if I'd ever been pregnant other than the stretch marks.  When I became pregnant again, however, I really, really noticed the difference.  With that first pregnancy, every thing just felt tighter and more supported, if that makes sense.  The next pregnancy?  Not so much.  

        by tjb22 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:05:59 PM PDT

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        • agreed.... (0 / 0)

          My first pregnancy...no stretch marks, bounced back to pre-baby weight by nine months, and no lingering bulges. Second baby? I've got stretch marks, and my belly is still wider than the jean size makers say it should be! I swear with the first pregnancy, your body is saying "It's okay, we can deal with this...it's all good...no problem." When you get pregnant again it screams "WTF?!!! Again? I give up!"

          by aussieyank on Wed May 07, 2008 at 12:32:24 AM PDT

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          • when pregnant, but before birth (0 / 0)

            I read an interview with Jools Oliver (Jamie's wife) in one of the Laydee Mags in London. She said somewhere in it that she'd rather button her "mummy tummy" into her pants and have an extra dollop of cream in her hot chocolate than diet and exercise like a fiend. At the time, I laughed at the idea of buttoning a mummy tummy into my pants.

            Not anymore.

            by Rachel on Wed May 07, 2008 at 05:16:21 PM PDT

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