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This is what my skin looks like now, after having carried triplets.

I had my daughter in april of last year. I never thought I would love my body and accept myself as a beautiful woman. But somehow out of the cloud that is early motherhood a woman evolved. I love my curves and have come to accept what it all has meant to me.

I have had 3 children. My first was born in 2000. I started Small and really blew up with her. I gained over 40 lbs. and never really got a flat stomach back. My second wasn’t born till 5 years later and I was on bed rest almost the whloe pregnancy with placenta ppevia so you can imagine the lack of exercise I recieved. I got pregnant with my 3rd when my second was only 14 months old. So these pictures are of me now.

Hi first I can’t say enough good things about this site!! I am a mother of two beautiful,happy,healthy babys.I gave life to my children and in doing so they gave my life reason beyond. I am so in love with these two little people. with eveyday that passes I grow more and more amazed with life itself. How quickly our children grow. From womb to mothers arms. My daughter is two and my son is seven weeks I just cant belive how everyday is something so incredibly new and amazing. I love my children so very much. I am so lucky that they are mine! The journey to motherhood is so wonderful and we go through so much. We grow people in our bodies. We give birth to the future to new beginings and endings. We as women are so very amazing we give life WOW WE GIVE LIFE It is just so…. WOW. Every day I see my new body givin to me by my children and honestly there are days when I look in the mirror and I get a bit shook up I am not 100% use to my mommy body but I love it non the less I am so impressed with my body and all it has done for me. I am thankful for all that I have today.

This is a belly pic of me at 17 weeks 6 days. This website has help me cope tremendously with the changes my body was going to endure. I have had tons of people give me advice on my stretch marks and preventing them. I am happy with my mama stripes and wouldn’t ever trade them. My body is making something amazing and they are proof. The media isn’t playing a beauty image role in my time for this miracle. Everyone is going through a tremendous change during pregnancy and my stretch marks are my guided lines. They help me see the changes I’m undergoing. And I think I am beautiful.

First of all I want to say that i love this website, and I am very proud of all of you and of all you are trying to do with your proyect. I have to apologize for my very very poor english, so I hope you take it easy with me. Please understand that I am a spanish woman, and I’m trying to do it as well as I can. So, just like I said, I’m a spanish 28 years old woman and I have found out that I’m pregnant just three days ago. I am visiting your website since 2006’s summer, because I have a very big complex about my stretch marks. I developed them at the adolescence, all around my body: legs, calves, tights, hips, buttocks and even in my breasts. I have to say that I don’t remember when they began to appear, at this age I don’t look at myself too much, but I always remember me with stretch marks. I have had eating disorders (atipic anorexic) for three years of my life, and I imagine that this illness helped to cover my body of this marks. The fact is that I am with my husband since I was 15, and we married on 2005, I know he love me and my body and I love him more than I can explain, but in my inside I’m very scared for the “damage” that pregnancy can do in my appearence. At the other hand I’m very scared too for the change that a baby would introduce in our lives, I fell insecure about my capacity to take care of the baby or to raise him. I don’t know if it’s normal or if I’m a “bad person” because or my concern about my body. I know that stretch marks will cover my belly, and this make me want to cry. I am using a lot of lotions but I’m afraid that they won’t work. I’d love to have your strength, and don’t feel like if I’m faulty for having bad genes. So, I hope you don’t think I’m superficial, because the society we live in often make us think this way. If you let me to I’d love to share my pregnancy with you. The pictures bellow are taken on the day I found out I’m going to have a baby. Thank you. KISSES

just a few pic..at 7 months

i’ve been waiting to post here since i was four months pregnant with my son chaos born 6/16/08.

first of all I want to say thank you for such a wonderful website its such an inspiring place to visit and has definatly helped me learn to love my post pregnancy body. As a dancer I was obsessed with my body image for most of my adolecent life and suffered from anorexia trying to prefect it. But after years of suffering I managed to beat it and learn to except me for being me. So when I fell pregnant it didnt really occour to me how much my body would change I just assumed it would bounce back to its pre pregnancy shape, boy was I wrong I couldnt look more different, but now I have come to love my body for all that it is, after all it had nurtured and protected my son for 9 months. During my pregnancy I didnt really get stretch marks untill I was about 7 months but I got them BAD. They covered my tummy, thighs, breasts and upper arms I also developed a pregnancy rash all over my tummy which has affected the pigmentation of my tummy leaving dark brown streaks where some of my stretch marks are. Anyway after birthing my son I really was not prepared for how my tummy would look, the day after having him while I took a shower was the first time I really got to look at my tummy it was covered in deep red stretch marks and it hung down it a fold. I burst out in tears as I really did not think it would look so bad. But now 4 months after the birth of my son I can say I accept my body for the wonderful job it did, after alot of hard work I am back down to my pre pregnancy weight and my tummy has toned up alot and the fold of skin is almost gone, and my stretch marks are almost all silver now apart from a small section of the centre of my tummy witch remain brown due to the change in pigmentation. the picture I have included are of me now 4 months post partum. I just wanted to say to all the women who are having difficulty dealing with there post pregnancy body, be proud of what you have achieved and love yourself after all you have come through. you are all beautiful. xxxx

I am 21 years old and my son Brandon Isaiah Jarvis is soon to be 10months old. I used to be skinny,carefree, and didn’t care so much, When I had my son my world changed and so did my body. I was always insecure with my body because i had marks and loose skin. My husband tells me that he loves my body and believe me he is always expressing that love! So now I see though eyes of a mother and my body brought a beautiful little boy into my world. so yeah I’m a mom. and darn proud to be