Hi! I’d just like to say that this website was a huge help during my pregnacy..it was great to be able and see real women and real pictures to reassure myself that everything my body is going through was normal. We just had our first baby on April 25, she was a c-section due to a breech and are busy planning for our next posted are pics the day before the c-section, one of Riley and an after shot about 25 days after delivery…hope to post new preggo pics soon!
I gave birth to my Gorgeous son Logan 2.5 years ago on dec 29th 2005. I went from 9st up to 12st whilst pregnant and am now down to 10.5st, I am definatly not happy with the way my belly looks now, covered in stretch marks and saggy soft skin, that no matter what I do it won’t tone up – maybe it will eventually but I feel like I am running out of patience! The first picture is of my belly about 2 years before becoming pregnant, the second is at 40 weeks pregnant and the rest are 2.5 years post partum. I’m 25 but sometimes I think my belly looks like that of an old woman!! I am so glad I have found this site though as I now realise I’m not the only one with body issues. Thanks!
I am 27 and this is my 3rd pregnancy. My 1st son died at age 2 last year, in his sleep. We never found out why, he was and still is perfect. Life has taken on a whole new value and worth. So this pregnancy I am trying to take care of myself the best I can, and am going to give birth naturally. I have a 20-month old son and am due 9/10/08. My 1st son would be 4 this December. Pregnancy is a state of health and beauty–I just love it and feel great! Due to my multiracial background, my skin is just tan enough to hide the stretch marks postpartum. Chasing after the boys and breastfeeding slims me down quick, although I do tend to gain 40 pounds with each kiddo. All my weight goes to hips and thighs.
Hello! First off, just wanted to say I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!!!!! It has completely opened my eyes and brought me out of my ‘body blues’. I hated my body. I didn’t recognize the person in the mirror. I was completely embarrassed and constantly felt like I was covering up a secret. When i stumbled upon this site, I was looking into if women had stomaches like mine and got back to their pre-baby body without surgery. After getting no results, I started looking up how much a “mom job” costs. Then I found this site. It opened my eyes to the fact that I AM A MOTHER!!!! Not some scantily clad girl on the street, not some young hottie, I am a mom and I am proud of what I’ve done! My children are worth every single mark and sag and scar! I am posting my post-partum pictures…..this is after two kids, one little cutie girl born full-term vaginally(8/4/05), and one handsome little boy born a month premature and via c-section(3/20/07). Now, I used to be very skinny and pretty, I had big perky breasts and a tight flat stomach. So for the past three years, I’ve talked about my body as some morbid disgusting piece of flesh. My stomach and back and legs and breasts are covered in stretch marks ranging form bright red to white. My breasts, once full and voluptuous, are now saggy and disproportionate.I used to talk how I’d do anything to get my old body back. My husband was very supportive through all of that, telling me he always thought I looked beautiful and didn’t want me to look like a teenager because I wasn’t a teenager, I was a mom. So instead of doing anything about my body, I got depressed about it and just let myself go even further. When I tipped the scales at 45 pounds over my pre- baby weight about a month ago, I decided even if there wasn’t anything I could do about the extra skin and stretch marks, I could do something about the weight. So I started exercising and eating healthy, and I’m feeling better than I ever have! I have lost about 15 pounds so far, and I’m planning to lose more and post again in the future. I will also try to find those old pictures of me before having kids and some of my pretty prego pics! I realize now that its not about how I look, its how I feel. And working out and eating better is making feel so much better, and Im feeling happier about myself. My husband is noticing the confidence and telling me its making me sexier than ever as well! I may not look like I did 5 years ago, but I’m not the same woman I was 5 years ago. I wouldn’t ever trade these marks and skin for my babies, EVER! They are so worth it, And moms that embrace their bodies instead of rejecting them are the most beautiful women in the world!!!!!!
Hi there. I’m 21 and waiting for our first baby to arrive. Our little boy, Skylar is due July 24th. I have been so blessed to have a wonderful and easy pregnancy. I have made it my number one priority to really educate myself about birthing and motherhood. We plan on having a home birth this summer, and I feel that I couldn’t have made a better choice! I appreciate this site and hearing words of encouragment from other proud women! Thank you for all of your stories and pictures! God Bless and enjoy the summer :)
I am a 23 year old mother of a beautiful baby girl named Maia Isabelle, she’s the light of my eyes and brings me a type of joy different to any other I’ve ever felt before. I found this website by accident like many mothers always looking that magical thing that’s is gonna make you loose the pregnacy weight or get rid of the strech marks, instead I found something even better real woman like me that we every entry I read makes me feel more comfortable in my own skin and that the privilege to be a mother is so worth that my boobs are now almost touching the floor, thank you to all of you, all of you are gold medal women, recieve a warm hug from a Dominican mother. The first photo is of me before pregnacy,second me pregnant with almost 6 months, third me a week ago and the last one of my sweet little girl Maia.
here are some photos of me during my fourth pregnancy, i was in approx. my seventh month in 06. some were obviously taken by myself and the others were taken by my hubby for one of my college art projects. i am 30 years old. i started having babies at age 17 and now have a girl age 13, and 3 boys ages 8, 5, and 14 months! this pregnancy was with baby boy sequoyah, born at home, an awesome birth, 2/18/07, weighing 7lbs. 11 oz. i will try to get some new photos of what i look like nowadays to share with all you beautiful mamas (and papas, and those who may be mamas or papas one day!) out there and thanks so much for all who have posted. i believe we are truly changing our consciousness in such a positively empowering way!!! go mamas!!
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I am now 11mos PP after my second child and my views have changed so much in the last year, I have learned to love my stretchmarks and my body, and to stop trying to appear perfect and striving to be like the fictional perfect mothers in the media. I have found real happiness now and this site is one of the reasons so thankyou all so much! I think you are all really beautiful:)
First..I love all of you women who have posted your beautiful selves on here! I worked up the courage to put up my photo!! I look at all of you and see such raw beauty. Maybe when this is up on the site, I’ll feel beautiful by association! Struggling with body image for so long, it’s a wild thing trying to accept such a dramatic change to your self. After a really sad and lonely pregnancy, I had a big healthy baby boy! 9 pounds 6 ounces. He is four months old as I type this.. I still reach down and pat my tummy. It’s hard to get used to not having someone in there. I am in awe.I must say. I MADE this amazing creature! With a strength I did not know I had, I pushed him into this reality. I feel stronger than before. I love him.And Though I cry sometimes over my sagging stomach and purple marks,sigh when I catch a glimpse of my reflection,tear when I see an old photo of a younger nymph-like me..I don’t want to know a world without this child in it.
I gave birth to my gorgeous baby girl on April 24, 2008. I gained 60 lbs in this pregnancy strictly by eating whatever my heart desired (nutella, ice cream and candy overload) :). I have 44 lbs that I need to get rid of in order to reach my pre-pregnancy weight of 128 lbs. I have days when I hate my new body and the way I look, but it has only been 2 weeks and I cannot expect any magic. It will be a long and hard road to go back into shape and look as my old self. But even with all these stretchmarks and all the extra weight, I would never ever change one thing, because in the end I have my princess whom I adore.
