3 1/2 months postpartum (Anonymous)
I had my baby girl on July 15th 2008…I have been struggling with my self about my weight since…Before I got pregnant I weighed 100 lbs and now I am 134 lbs…I am slowly adjusting to the “new look” It is not the weight so much as the lose skin I have…I gained 60 lbs [...]
6 weeks postpartum (Anonymous)
I posted an entry about a month ago right after my C-Section and I was terrified that my belly was just going to be a saggy mess forever but it really has improved. Not by much but here is the progress.
Pregnancy Service Stripes (Anonymous)
It is 2 days past my baby’s 1st birthday. After my shower I was just looking at my body. I see how much it’s been through with 3 pregnancies in 5 years. I am 22 years old, I have 3 children and I have my pregnancy service stripes and a battle scar. My belly, hips [...]
6 weeks pp (Anonymous)
For those out there who didn’t automatically return to their pre-pregnancy bodies, I wanted to share what time has done for me so far. The pictures that I am sharing are from my second pregnancy. I had stretch marks with the first and the second. I only gained 44 pounds with my [...]
Update (Anonymous)
I am 140 lbs! yay I went from over 200 all the way down to 118..and i sagged..and didn’t liek it.. and now I’m finally fitting where my body should be not even worrying about scails or skin..lol I LUV some curve….I would take more .. So I’ve gained 20 lbs by eating lots healthy..eating [...]
1 year later!
In 2006 I became pregnant while broken up with my husband, we weren’t married at the time but still seeing each other. At 5 weeks I miscarried and a month later we were married, it was already planned but it devastated me to lose my baby. Eight months later we conceived our son Jacob who [...]
7 Days pp after 1lb 13 oz micro preemie @ 26 5/7 weeks (Anonymous)
These are the pictures taken tonight, exactly one week after the birth of my first, Gunner Isaiah @ 26 weeks and 5 days. He was a micro-preemie and weighed 1 lb 13 oz and was 13.25 in. long. I had a normal pregnancy right up until I went into labor. I was thick before pregnancy [...]
Beautiful Belly (Amanda)
When I was 8 months pregnant with my son, I had this done. It was a beautiful, relaxing and memorable experience and I would tell every mother to be, to have it done. You can edit out the text in the photo if you like, it was put on the cover of a book of [...]
21 Years Old and Almost 11 Months Postpartum (Anonymous)
Me & my husband decided to try for our 1st baby in January of 2007. 3 months later, I was pregnant. Although we were young, we both wanted to start a family soon after were married. Our son was born on December 6, 2007. I loved every minute of the pregnancy. After he was born, [...]
First time mother to a beautiful blessing (Anonymous)
Hi Everyone! First of all I would like to say this website is sucha beautiful and motivational site. Its wonderful to know I am not the only one who hates their body after pregnancy.
I am a 23 year old mother to a healthy 7 month old baby boy. Before I gotten pregnant i dieted and [...]
Hurray! (Anonymous)
Hurray for Stretchmarks!
I’ve always loved stretch marks on other people, they are so silvery and intricate and pretty. And I didn’t have any myself. But then I had a beautiful baby girl, six months ago, and now I have them all over my lower belly, and I love them. And I love [...]
It’s nice to not be ashamed of my body (Anonymous)
I have had three children, and each time, my body has changed. Most of my stretch marks came with my first and as I had my other two children, I noticed my belly getting saggier and resembling something like a bowlful of jelly. My breasts have gone from DD to F and back [...]
Twins - The Aftermath - Update (Anonymous)
Original entry here.
Hi, I wrote my thoughts and feeling back in May 2008 in my original posting “Twins- The Aftermath”. Almost 6 months later, I have tried to loose weight. I Finally compared the pictures and I can see a difference in which makes me PROUD! i have never been proud of my weightloss. THANK [...]
Mum to 3 boys and a girl on the way (Anonymous)
I’ve been a mum since I was 19. I’m only 5′4″ and I’ve never been thin, always struggled with my weight and body image. With my 1st pregnancy I gained over 45lbs. 19 months later I had my 2nd son at home after gaining over 55lbs. I went from a size 10 before babies to [...]
11 months postpartum 20 years old (Anonymous)
I am a 20 yr old mother. I couldn’t have imagined that I’d be able to do this well as a mother before I had my son, but I always knew I’d do my best. I doubted that my best would be good enough, but I never knew at the time that it would come [...]
Learning to love my new body (Anonymous)
Me and my husband tried to get pregnant for 15 months..when it finally happened we were sooo excited..not to mention nervous! I was 105 lbs when I got pregnant by the end of my pregnancy I was 156! I ate very healthy but I still put on the pounds, made it to 30 weeks with [...]
teen mom and wife (Anonymous)
Hello so somehow I discovered this site, Im not sure how but ive known of it for a few months now. I finally got the guts to post some pics of myself as I see women that look just like me. It isnt like im alone out there anymore after looking around on here. I [...]
6 months, now (Anonymous)
So my beautiful daughter is 6 months old and it just hit me like, “Holy crap! It’s going by so fast already!!!!” I can’t wait to be able to have conversations with her, take her to play on a playground, find out the things she’ll be into, and just see her grow. When me and [...]
8 months postpartum, fifth baby (Anonymous)
i’m 22 years old with 5 young kids my youngest is 8 month old and i feel good with my body now i want to lose some weight but i feel like is ok for 5 kids i just need to toned it up cause is saggy and my belly button is horrible that the [...]
16 married, 17 first baby (Ashley)
first 0f all i l000ve this site!! i finally feel lyke im n0t al0ne!0kayy i g0t married @16..yeah i kn0w its y0ung but i l00ve him&& we were like why wait lets jus d0 it!2m0nths later i g0t pregnant for the first time! i gained 62lbs..i was skinny my wh0le life s0 i just keep [...]
Two boys and trying for one more baby (Anonymous)
I have had two boys that are sixteen months apart. My oldest is three and the baby is almost two. I workout several days a week plus I try to eat as healthy as possible. I am disgusted with my body but I also realize that this body brought two beautiful lives into this world. [...]
My changing belly (Anonymous)
I am 26 years old with 2 kids, 18 months apart. I was lucky, I didn’t get any stretch marks with my first, but my second was a 9 pounder and I’m only 5′2″ so now I have lots of them! At first I didn’t like them, but now they’re my battle scars….a reminder how [...]
2 weeks post-cesarean (Anonymous)
Here are pics of my belly and scar 2 wks after…the scar has not gotten any better. I’m due in 3 wks with #2 and my body is destroyed!
22 with twins (Anonymous)
I was 21 years old when I found out that my boyfriend at the time and I would be expecting our first child. We then found out that it was twins!! natural twins! I of course wasn’t prepared at all to be a mother OR a wife and before I knew it, it happened so [...]
Accepting the “mom” figure (Anonymous)
Before my pregnancy I was 115 lbs and stood at 5′8. When I found out I was pregnant I was scared. I was 17 at the time and my boyfriend and I were having problems. When I saw those two pink lines on the pregnancy test I knew my life would never be the same. [...]
2nd baby - 6 months pp (Anonymous)
I feel so insecure about my new post pardum body. I looked so much better after my first son, but am having a tough time losing weight after my youngest son (my oldest is 3 1/2yrs and my baby is 6months). I feel so ugly compared to many women around the city. I cannot seem [...]
Beautiful Body (Anonymous)
I’m 22 years old and I got married may 19 2006 and found out I was pregnant in july 06. That was the happiest day of my life.I was like I will never get stretch marks I never put any coco butter on my belly and I swore I would be lucky, I wasn’t
My [...]
2 years pp and finally… (Anonymous)
2 years pp and finally at a “healthy” weight…
I was overweight before my first pregnancy. I all the pregnancy weight plus 20 pounds after that delivery. TWO YEARS after my second delivery I am finally at what is considered “normal” weight for my height. What I should have weighed before conceiving #1. I am generally [...]
Me after two pregnancies and two c-sections (Anonymous)
I am 26 years old. I have two beautiful daughers ages 7 and 2 years. With my first daughter I was 98 lbs for my first doctor visit at 8 weeks pregnant! I gained about 63 lbs!! I lost the weight pretty quickly and was back down to about 100 lbs.(I am 5ft 5in). Then [...]
3rd pregnancy of a plus-sized 20-something (Anonymous)
I’ve never been very skinny. The only point I can remember being so was when I was 13 and 5′6″ and maybe 90-100lbs. After that I plumed big time. At the age of 15 almost 16 I started having really bad pains that made it hard to walk, it was found that I had ovarian [...]
When he smiles (Anonymous)
I want to lie and say that I am comfortable with my body.
I want to say that I don’t give it a second thought.
The truth though…
The truth is that I think about it often.
I can be honest and say I think about it less now than I ever have.
This website helps.
Trying to maintain a healthy [...]
12 weeks pp with first baby (Anonymous)
i am 19 years old i found out i was pregnant what i was 18 it was scary at first but i got used to the idea even was fine that i had left her father and would be a single mother, and now here i was have a beautiful 12 weeks old baby girl [...]
12 Months Postpartum (Anonymous)
Well, my daughter is going to be a year next week, so this feels like a good time to celebrate what an amazing year of changes it has been. It’s been the most profound year of my life, and I wouldn’t change any of it for the world. Having said that, it hasn’t been an [...]
29 years old, 10 1/2 months post partum after first child (Anonymous)
I had a really hard time accepting my body after pregnancy, and still am having a tough time. I look at this site as often as I can and it makes me feel better that I’m not alone and that most people who have children don’t just bounce back immediately. This website gives [...]
Learning to love… (Anonymous)
Learning to love my stretchmarks!
Week 39 begins tomorrow, and there aren’t words to express how excited I am to meet my little one. This is our first baby, and we feel so blessed.
I made it to week 36 without a single stretch mark, and I will never forget a friend of mine telling me [...]
New mommy worried about her new body (Anonymous)
I’m a new Mommy, I gave birth by cesarean section a little over a week ago and up until now my biggest worry was if my stretch marks would fade but now I’m noticing that my skin is VERY saggy. I am only 20 years old and my tummy looks just as awful as my [...]
All you can be happy with your bellies! (iraiosc)
6 months ago i had a baby 4′360kg… cessarean of course… before he arrive i have a normal and thin body… with nice skin… the pregnancy was great, all people said that i have a nice and rounded belly… then tima passed and my son don’t wanted get out… he grow and grow… till arrive [...]
I’m So Soft (Anonymous)
I have always been thin, and I still am. Everywhere except my belly. I can dress in such a way that my proof of parenthood is quite well disguised, but I’m still chubby enough that every once in a while I get asked if I’m pregnant. I’m okay with that.
I’m also surprised [...]
One Month Postpartum with Number Two (Anonymous)
My previous entry is here.
i hate myself (Anonymous)
So i am a first time mum to my beautiful baby boy harrison his almost 8 months ! i have a wonderful fiancee and everything is going great but i am so depressed i hate my body i hate who i am as a person i hate my shy personality i hate my voice i [...]
Changes 10.5 Months Postpartum (Kashi)
Pre-pregnancy I weighed 180 lbs, I walked out of the hospital weighing 145 lbs… (10 lbs more than I had weighed a week before) After all the water weight came off, I sat at 225lbs for a few months. Slowly came down to 210, and now I’m 197 lbs, FINALLY back down into the 100s!!
Here [...]
Bikini Ready (Anonymous)
My son was born when I was 37 and 9 months later I wore a bikini for the first time (photo to follow shortly). My whole life I’ve been self conscious of everything: my stretch marks when I was a teen, the fact that being short-waisted with small boobs just isn’t terribly flattering, those (sometimes [...]
My Journey to Accepting My Body (Anonymous)
Before and During Pregnancy
I have always been rather slender. I am very petite; the heaviest I have been is 113 pounds and I am 4′11.” I should also note that I have never had an eating disorder and have never been on a diet. Sure, there were times I was out of [...]
Two months postpartum, if I ignore it, will it go away? (Anonymous)
A friend referred me to this site when I told her, in shock, that I couldn’t fit into any of my pre-pregnancy clothing. I guess I had assumed, having always been a rather thin girl, a model and a dancer, that I would somehow magically bounce back into pre-preggo shape right after birth, like the [...]
A Dream Un-Attained (so far) - (Anonymous)
I have one beautiful daughter who is two years old and I hated my body afterward. I was single and I thought that no one would ever be attracted to me. I was disgusted by myself, and I couldn’t understand how anyone would want to have sex with me. When Brenna was 7 months old [...]
Hurricane Tummy (Anonymous)
I am 27 and this was my first pregnancy. My daughter was born 5 weeks early by emergency c-section after I was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia after I started blacking out from high blood pressure. Up until that point I had battled many odds with this pregnancy. 2nd trimester bleeding, gestational diabetes, a bells [...]
Loving My Stretchmarks (Anonymous)
I have 2 babies, my son is 2.5 and my daughter is 1. My whole life I have been happy with my body except for when my mom would tell me I was getting chunky (which I now know I wasn’t). Before I got pregnant, I was 165 and 5′7. I was muscular and looked [...]
Emotional Teen Mom Part 2 (Erin)
Original entry here.
Well since my last post a lot of things have changed *except my stretch marks.They don’t bother me as bad I don’t really care to be in a bikini and being a size 4 instead of 2 doesn’t bother me that bad either. I have a new meaning in life. I have to [...]
6 Months Later (Anonymous)
It is now six months, One week, and 4 days since my daughter was born. She arrived March, 13 2008. This time last year, We were about to find out what the sex of our new arrival would be. I had too many emotions to name, but I was so excited. .I wrote her letters, [...]
6 Months Postpartum, 2 Kids 15 Months Apart
I am a 24 year old mother of two gorgeous little boys. I had my first son in December 2006. He is now 21 months old. A short 7 1/2 months later I got the surprise of a life time and found out that I was pregnant again. My youngest son is now 6 months [...]
…Extra skin (Anonymous)
Sexy Extra Skin
Here is my belly 9 months after the birth of my 2nd daughter (born 17 months after my first.) I am 28 years old. I gained 50 lbs with my first daughter (born 8 lbs 13 oz), and with her I measured full term at 25 weeks. My 2nd daughter [...]
3 Years Postpartum (Anonymous)
I had a horrible first pregnancy 6 years ago where i gained 81pounds plus alot of stretch marks. I managed to lose all the weight within a few months but was left with a mess of a stomach and butt from stretch marks and extra skin. I gave birth to a second child 3 years [...]
This is Me (Angela)
My name is Angela and I’ve never been a slender girl. I’ve always fought with my weight and have had a poor body image since before puberty (Thanks Mom) It wasn’t until after the birth of my first son Azriel that was I was able to gain some sort of acceptance towards my body. Even [...]
eighteen months postpartum with baby #2 and 100 pounds lighter (Anonymous)
My entire life I have hated my body. And because of that hatred, I had no desire to take care of myself. I gained weight, lots of weight, and teetered on the edge of 300lbs. Then in my quest to become a surrogate mother, I started reading about beautiful women who hate their bodies because [...]
8 days pp, second child (Anonymous)
I wanted to share my pp photos. After my first child, I was wearing my old clothes again within days. This time, its a different story. I had stretch marks after my first, but got more stretch marks this time around. I’m optimistic that I will loose the weight and will [...]
25 Years old, 37 Weeks Pregnant with First Baby (Anonymous)
My husband and I tried for six months to concieve this baby and when we found out that we were pregnant, we couldn’t have been happier. Now I’m at the point where I am so anxious to have her in my arms, that’s all I think about. I started getting stretch marks around [...]
My First Baby VCC (Anonymous)
I am a 21 year old mother!, my baby just turn 2 months old! i am so happy with my baby i can’t imagine a life without her!.
Everyday i struggle with how my body looks, i’ve never been a skinny person but i am not with overweight. Because i am a new mom i can’t [...]
Bringing Sexy Back with a New Body (Anonymous)
In high school, I was always a slender and athletic girl. At 6 feet tall, it was easy to put on 5 or 10 pounds without anyone noticing. I played a sport every season and enjoyed food.
When I went to college, I was the cliché: about 15 pounds, but lost it quickly, before my wedding. [...]
25 After 2 Kids (Anonymous)
I love this website. I felt like I was the only person in the world that had stretch marks! Seems like all my friends and family lucked out with pregnancy. I have stretch marks from the tops of my breasts all the way down to the backs of my knees. I’ve never been too self [...]
Update: 11 Months Postpartum (Anonymous)
hi all i posted before here. just thought i would do you an update. I’m still breastfeeding, im still padded and probably will continue to be until i stop breastfeeding. I am however at peace with myself.I will get back to be being in shape again, but until then i have a wonderful husband that [...]
7 Weeks (Anonymous)
I’m submitting my photo because I’ve finally come to terms with being a mother in the whole sense of the word, the best I can. I decided to accept the little changes and focus more on the moment, and in this moment, I could never have more joy in my life. I had postpartum depression [...]
Pregnant With #3 (Anonymous)
This will be my third baby. I have a 6 year old boy and a 1 year old girl. I’m 24 weeks in this pic.
My First and Only So Far (Anonymous)
On June 4th of 2008 God blessed me and my wonderful fiance with a beautiful baby girl!!! I weighed 114 going into my pregnancy and right before I had her I weighed 128… I didn’t have any stretched marks at all until the last week in pregnancy!!! I have a few purple ones on my [...]
16 Months Postpartum (Anonymous)
This is my body now…16 months after my beautiful child was born. I weight 211 at the time of her delivery and was 170 by 1 months post partum. At 6 months post partum I was still at 170lbs. At that time I decided enough was enough. It took me several months but now Im [...]
Worth Every Line (Anonymous)
This is my second pregnancy, my first left me with stretch marks everywhere. I knew I would get them, my mother got her fair share from me. I’m not upset at all by them though, i thought i would be but instead i watch my two year daughter and think she was worth every line. [...]
Irrational Jealousy and Blame (Anonymous)
I started back at work 5 weeks postpartum and let me tell you…nursing (the profession) and nursing (breastfeeding) don’t go well together! In a 14 hr day I had the chance to pump one (maybe 2) times. It’s not really the “chance” to. I have to make myself stop what I am doing and go. [...]