she’s bacccccck!
Posted
June 2, 2008 at
11:41 am by
Tracy
Okay, I lie. I’ve BEEN back but we are getting ready to relocate so I’ve been busy pretending to pack
Things that suck about moving with an infant:
Everything.
Things that don’t suck:
Finding a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble under the bed!
Seriously though, lets talk about my current dilemma which is spring clothing. Post baby I do NOT enjoy clothes shopping because everything fits so strangely. Huge boobs that don’t fit into cute tank tops: check. Flabby stomach that, when paired up with a tunic top makes you look four months pregnant: Double check. I wish I could just wear cute nightgowns like the ones Anthropologie has all day long [oh and I wish I were rich enough to buy all of them...send me money?]
Momma’s: where do you shop. What clothes flatter a post-pregnancy body, and lastly: how good is Starbucks Java chip ice cream on a hot summer afternoon?
…more later, I’m totally going to get one now!
Oh and PS for those that were dying to know: Yes my honeymoon was lovely. We slept & ate carbs like it’s nobodies business. We got wild in the hot tub for all of ten minutes until I decided it was “far too hot and making me sleepy…” we went hiking until we were out of breath [twenty minutes], and I called and checked on Paige 3x per day and referenced her about 175x per day. The second we were home I was sighing and slightly aggravated. Ahh motherhood!
Tags: 10-month-old, clothes-shopping, Family, honeymoon, post-partumn, summer |
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1. jenna roberts said:
June 2, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Okay after I had my twins nothing fit right NOTHING!!!! ARG! Looking back now at pics I see why I was having such a hard time getting into my clothes…..I was bigger everywhere. I just accepted it though and instead of drowning out my body with lots of fabric and frumpy clothes I decided to go the opposite route and buy the jeans in the next size up and buy the minimizing underpants to suck everything in. You know the ugly ones that do well as their own form of birth control
I bought plenty of button down tops the ones with collars as they seem to do a good job in helping to appear slimmer and are somewhat dressy so it just feels better than wearing sweats all day. It is over a year later and I am back in my regular pants. It takes 9 months to gain all the baby weight and so much longer than this to get it back off. In the meantime isn’t it just fun to try to look good despite everything being bigger. This can be a blessing for those of us who were too skinny to begin with. I like having filled out in places I never did before! 
Baby’s got back LOL!
2. Kymberly Foster Seabolt said:
June 2, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
Eh, it could be worse.
You could look back at his newborn photos on the “baby’s” tenth birthday and realize (sadly) that you were a helluva lot thinner then than you are NOW.
Then you go slit your wrists. Or eat cheesecake. You know. Whichever.
3. Tracy said:
June 2, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
My dear sweet mother gave me a pair of tummy tuck underpants and I almost died when I put them on. I’m serious, I couldn’t breath.
4. Stacey S said:
June 2, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
One word…. SPANX. Trust me…you’re new BFF!
5. Allison J said:
June 2, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
[quote comment="167706"]One word…. SPANX. Trust me…you’re new BFF![/quote]
I second the Spanx. They are worth every over-priced penny!
6. Jennifer said:
June 2, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
[quote comment="167693"]Eh, it could be worse.
You could look back at his newborn photos on the “baby’s” tenth birthday and realize (sadly) that you were a helluva lot thinner then than you are NOW.
Then you go slit your wrists. Or eat cheesecake. You know. Whichever.[/quote]
Yes.. Spanxx are the best thing ever created!! And yes, sadly I was looking at newborn pictures of my daughter and I look thinner then I do now.. very very sad
7. Rita said:
June 2, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
[quote comment="167693"]Eh, it could be worse.
You could look back at his newborn photos on the “baby’s” tenth birthday and realize (sadly) that you were a helluva lot thinner then than you are NOW.
Then you go slit your wrists. Or eat cheesecake. You know. Whichever.[/quote]
Yeah…that. But, eat the cheesecake, don’t slit your wrists (there, my duty as a social worker is over).
The weight will come off, but things won’t settle back to where they were. Not if you’re from this planet. If you’re from Planet Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts, then you can pump out twins and still look like you’re a 13 year-old boy (which I’m just going out on a limb here and assuming is what will happen when AJ has–or wait, has she???–those babies). But, the rest of us deal with a body that betrays our transition to motherhood. Oh well. Just try to be healthy. Avoid diabetes, keep your blood pressure under control, exercise and keep your bones strong. Living long is the key, because all you have to do to look GOOD when you’re 90 is be alive.
8. Tracy said:
June 2, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
9. anthromomma said:
June 2, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
[quote comment="167794"]Spanxx look scary, like…where is my fat going to GO?[/quote]
It goes where the air in your lungs usually is.
The knock offs at Target work reasonably well. Slightly less constricting than Spanxx (which is a good thing, as that allows breathing), and a quarter of the price. Three kids have pretty much destroyed my midsection, and I’m vain, so I have become a big fan of good foundation garments.
Yay for the good honeymoon, by the way.
10. Kristy said:
June 4, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
Hanes Her Way Shapewear high-waisted briefs are great under nicer dresses and eve jeans if you’re going out and really want to smooth things over. But for everyday, I’m all about the casual sundresses that are everyhere. We have these cheapie women’s fashion stores here like Holliday Fashions and Rainbow that have cheap but cute clothes, and they’ve had tons of dresses this season. They’re like $14 to $25 each and a lot of them have built in foam cup bras. They rock! So comfy and easy and they realy flatter because most of them have a slightly higher waist with maybe a little smocking at the waist, and then a fuller skirt.