No wonder I was so tired and could barely walk… as baby #4 was over 11 pounds. I may never get a chance to be pregnant again so I am certainly cherishing every memory I have of all my pregnancies.. but mostly, due to it’s recentcy, the latest one. And I felt I wanted to share it… in pictures.
i have post here before i just want to share my 11 months pospartum pict i dont like my body and my huge thighs!
Hi I am a 2x Gestational Surrogate. I also have 2 kids of my own Baylee 11 and Tyler 5. I am a proud surrogate of 2 baby girls. One born 2/27/07, and another born 8/25/08. I am proud of all 4 babies I have given birth to. However my first child was the pregnancy to give me my lovely stretch marks and chubb. All 3 other pregnancies gave me no additional stretch marks. My weight has been up and down over the years. I am actually at my lowest now 140lbs. I am proud of this as this is after 4 pregnancies. I would not change a thing, but do admitt I wish I did not have the stretch marks and chubb around the belly. My 2 kids were vaginal births in 1997, and one in 2003. My first surrogate baby was an emergrncy c-section, and my second surrogate baby was a repeat c-section. I am proud of them all. And have grown to accept my body as it is.
This is me after my 3rd pregnancy and first surrogate baby. See how heavy I still was. Im the lady on the right.
Here I am at 26 weeks along with my 4th surrogate baby. This is my son Tyler 5yrs old.
This is me Christmas 2008 with Tyler again. After 4 pregnancies. I lost 42 lbs since delivering my last baby and that is 15 less than before I was pregnant. I am very proud of myself as I have always been over weight.
With my first daughter, conceived at 17, I was not fuller aware of the changes that would take place. I was young, ignorant to nutrition and was raised with horrible eating and activity habits. I gained almost 80 pounds and ended my long labor in a csection. My first daughter is an absolute joy, and in many ways saved my life for sure destruction. I met my husband when she was 3. We conceived about 9 months later. We have created 5 more children together (on in my belly currently), in the past 6 years. My body has undergone quite the toll. Almost continual pregnancies and breastfeeding. I am in awe of what my body is able to handle… I am sure that this most soon come to an end, mostly because I have had 5 csections. I am attempting a VBAC with this pregnancy, and if it goes well, as I have much faith and hope it will, then maybe I will be up for more children, but otherwise I think my body ready to move on to the next stage (whatever that is :) These are some pictures I took. I am currently about 18 weeks pregnant with my 6th and learning a little more each day,each pregnancy, to love and accept my body just the way it is.
I had my first baby at 19, and that’s where I got all my stretch marks. She was 7lb, 14oz and my smallest baby. I started out pregnancy at 150 pounds and was 191 when she was born, in June 2001. My second baby was 9lb, 2oz and was born in August 2004. I started out at 175 pounds and was 210 when I delivered her. My third baby was born in July 2007. She was 9lb, 10oz. I was 190 when I got pregnant and 220 when she was born. My fourth baby (first boy!) was born 9/4/08 and was 8lb, 11oz. I started pregnancy at 211 pounds and was 226 when he was born. As I write this, my babies are 7 years, 4 years, 15 months, and 2 months old. I weigh around 185 pounds. I was alarmed at this rapid weight loss, but the doctor ran blood tests and it turns out all is fine. I chalk it up to great nutritional habits that I developed in my last pregnancy, as well as breastfeeding. (I breastfed all the others well into toddler-hood, but was eating mostly junk and processed foods.) The first picture is me the day before my baby boy was born. I was picking my four year old up from her first day of preschool. I was also in early labor. The next pictures are of me now, 2 months and 2 days after the first picture was taken. I love my body. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. However, it took me years of self-discovery (and self-loathing) to get to this point. I am blessed with an amazing husband who finds me “irresistable” in his words (which may be why we have four children!) and finally, finally the maturity to realize that nothing I do can change who I am, so its useless worrying about it. I can’t change me, so I embrace me, and after years of feeling fat and yucky, I finally love me.
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 a size 16 after two. It took a divorce and 3 years to lose 55lbs and I was back into a size 10. Six years after my 2nd I had my 3rd son. I only gained around 35lbs that time, and after he was born I lost all the baby weight and more after about a year, getting down to a size 6 or 130lbs. Here I am now pregnant with my 1st girl! I’m only 30 weeks and already gained 30lbs. Dr. said I’m on track to gain around 40lbs but he’s not worried about it so I’m trying not to worry. All my stretch marks came from my 1st two pregnancies. You can see they have darkened up during this pregnancy but I’m sure they’ll fade again. I’m not worried about losing weight again, I’ll be breastfeeding and with good diet and exercise I know the weight will go. I do hate to think about the sagging I’ll get. After 3 my belly was just a saggy jelly roll so after 4 who knows what will happen. I am so blessed to have had 3 healthy boys and a healthy pregnancy this 4th time, I’ll happily take the saggy stretch marked belly in return! Thank you for putting this site together, after reading the posts and seeing the pictures here I feel happier than ever to have this body!
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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 part i hate the most i love my baby girl and all my kids i wouldn change it for anything in this world..
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I am 27 years old, and recently gave birth to my fifth child 3 months ago. With each pregnancy I have gained between 50 and 60 lbs and have managed to lose the weight every time. Usually this takes me about 9 months, but with this past pregnancy i worked out during and after birth and only have about 15 more lbs to go. I know many people will look at my pictures and think, what does she have to complain about?, but before i had children I really took pride in the way my body looked, and I have a lot of self esteem issues over each little stretch mark, scar, and extra skin. I have been breastfed all five children, and because those times overlapped i have ended up breastfeeding for 8 straight years, so my breasts are nowhere near as perky as they used to be. But as I look at all my kiddos, I can say with confidence that they are worth it. I would do it all again in a heartbeat. I am working hard at trying to accept my body the way it is, and trying to look at my scars as signs of what i have accomplished, instead of flaws. I just wish it wasnt so hard.
I am 37 weeks and 3 days pregnant with my fourth child. All of the stretchmarks were from my first pregnancy 13 years prior.
This is 3 days before I’m supposed to give birth (c-section, due to breech) this is baby number 4 for me and my last. I wanted to embrace my beautiful body one last time and decided to show the world….