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Postpartum Bodies Chic?

by Elisa

Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:02:20 AM PDT

Recently I was thumbing through Entertainment Weekly's "Summer Movie Preview" when I came across this little blurb in "The Shaw Report:"

IN: Postpartum chic
FIVE MINUTES AGO: Maternity style
OUT: Flat bellies

Postpartum bodies are chic? God bless you, Jessica Shaw!

Tags: postpartum body, chic, Entertainment Weekly (all tags)

Finally (0 / 0)

I am so IN!

by coobert on Tue May 06, 2008 at 11:09:25 AM PDT
well (0 / 0)

good to know that i am chic.

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

by lorin on Tue May 06, 2008 at 11:36:08 AM PDT
- Yeah, are they chic (0 / 0)
  
  several years out? Not just for, oh, six weeks or so?
  
  by tjb22 on Tue May 06, 2008 at 12:38:47 PM PDT
  
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My timing is perfect (0 / 0)

Please pass the ice cream...

--R

by Rocky on Tue May 06, 2008 at 12:45:46 PM PDT
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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Rats! (0 / 0)

If I get pregnant now I'll be out of style!

by lonespark on Tue May 06, 2008 at 01:43:35 PM PDT
ahhhh (0 / 0)

my round belly that won't go flat no matter what i do, so sexy!

by Stacey on Tue May 06, 2008 at 02:10:26 PM PDT
WTH? (0 / 0)

Maternity style? What the hell is that? There is NO such thing. Ugh.

Yes, I hate my maternity clothes...

by tessajp on Tue May 06, 2008 at 05:08:47 PM PDT
Maternity clothes are of the devil (0 / 0)

and my belly gave up the ghost at like 3 months this time. I am measuring 4 weeks bigger than Due Date and I don't have water retention, diabetes, or larger than average weight gain. My OB wants me to get a third ultrasound to determine baby size, but I think my abdominals are just really weak.

They told me my last kid was going to be 8-8 1/2 pounds...she was 6!

All this to day post-partum bodies better stay hot through next season, it will take me at LEAST that long!

by Suzanne77 on Wed May 07, 2008 at 04:41:19 AM PDT

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Postpartum Bodies Chic?

by Elisa

Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:02:20 AM PDT

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