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When I was linked to this site, I thought what an amazing site, these women are brave. I felt the need to share this site with my Mommy friends and immediately passed the link around.
I told them that there was no way I could ever post my belly, and if I did it wouldn’t have my face or name attached. Which is kind of funny because I have my very graphic birth pictures posted on a friends website( https://www.abirthtoremember.com/pages/unassistedhbac.php ). The thought of showing my belly somehow seemed too personal.Although,the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to share mine. After all my belly was the home of my 3 children for 9 months each. So here’s my name, belly and my face.

My name is Brandi and I am a 26 year old Mommy to 3 beautiful children. My children are all 20 months apart, ages 3.5,2 and 5 months old. My first pregnancy I gained 65lbs, I lost 50+ of it. Pregnancy #2 I gained 50lbs. I got back down to pre-baby 2 weight. Pregnancy number 3 I refused to step on the scale, but I am guessing I gained about 30-40lbs. I am currently back down to my pregnancy weight, but my body is just not what it use to be. I am working on it though.

Pregnancy #2
Son #1 painting my belly.

in between babies 2&3

Pregnancy 3

Taken today @ 5 months postpartum.

My 2 yr old saw me with my belly showing and came over to play the drums on it.

Your site is truly inspiring & liberating! This is the first time someone(besides my husband) has seen my belly since giving birth to my second son. I’m a small framed person gained 35 lbs with both pregnancies. With my first I lost all weight within a couple of weeks of my vaginal delivery. My second son was breech so I had a emergency c-section on his due date 8/2/04. I am 4 lbs to my pre pregnancy weight loss.

Here is the front view of my stomach. Notice my saggy pouch & belly button.

Here is the side view. I have about an inch of saggy skin that needs to be “tucked” in my pants.

Thank you so much for letting us share our beautiful child bearing bodies on your site.

Updated here and here.

I had nine months between pregnancies. I weighed 133 before Pregnancy #1 and 143 before Pregnancy #2.

Here I am, 5 months postpartum with #2 and weigh 140. I doubt I’ll ever get back to how things were, but that’s okay.

Thanks for the site!

Thanks so much for having this site, until a friend showed this site to me I was under the false impression that it was ‘rare’ to end up with as many stretchmarks as me. Now it turns out its actually more common and I feel much better about myself. I was worried about people seeing all the stretch marks but now I realize it just means I had a baby..absolutely nothing to be ashamed of thanks again!

Here’s me at 35 weeks pregnant:

And here I am now and my son is 16 months old:

When I first got pregnant, I wasn’t the happiest with my weight, but I immediately relaxed about the whole thing and felt pretty good through the first six months. This was at 6 weeks.

I gained over 60 pounds by the time I gave birth to my 9 pounder, at 41 plus weeks. This was the last picture I took pregnant, other than some nude shots of me laboring that I’m sure as hell not sharing.

Now, it’s 6 months later and I sometimes feel good, sometimes bad…But mostly I am glad that my FACE is at least back to pre-preg shape!

If not for the stretchmarks, I could confuse this with pics of me 12 weeks pregnant.

Thanks for doing this!

I had my two babies fifteen months apart, both full term (41+ weeks), in my 30s. Both were large babies, over 9 and 11 pounds each. I don’t have any pictures of my body from my first pregnancy. I wish I had done belly shots, and encourage anyone waffling on this to do it! I was up to 210 pounds at the end of my first pregnancy with my daughter. It must have been a lot of water put on gradually. I was down to 165 pounds when she was only three weeks old and 145 pounds when she was five months old.

Here I am when my daughter was 7 months old, about four weeks after conceiving my son.

I was up to 195 glorious pounds when I birthed my son. Here I am at 40 1/2 weeks.

It took longer to drop the baby weight this time. It came off when I started the night weaning process when my second baby was about a year old.

Here I am about a year and a half postpartum at 142 pounds. I have been nursing continuously for 33 months now (nursed through pregnancy and tandem nurse now). I have mixed feelings about showing my breasts, but in the spirit of this wonderful site — my breasts are very asymmetrical. The larger breast produces more. I wonder what will happen when they wean.

You can see the varicose veins that I earned in my second pregnancy. These are mostly in my left leg. My skin is somewhat loose but seems to be improving gradually.

I was lucky to avoid stretch marks. I have them on both breasts, but they are not noticeable. They are mostly hidden by the sag.

I will be having major pelvic floor reconstruction surgery. But I don’t want to send a picture of that change.

This site is amazing. Thank you for allowing me to participate.

I have to say that I have felt extremely liberated since viewing this page. It is SO nice to know that I am normal. I also never thought of my stretchmarks as a right of passage, but I have been very awakened by reading this page. I am 23 years old, and got all of my battle scars with my first child at the age of 18. With baby #2, nothing changed much. I am beginning to feel comfortable in my body, and want to thank everyone that has posted here. This is my about 10 minutes ago.

Such a beautiful entry here by Jenny. Go check it out!

I love this site. It’s great. I was facinated by becoming a mother and how it changed my body. I was also very strong willed and determined to make the best of each stage of my pregnancy, including post pardom weight loss. I worked out and stayed in shape until the end of my pregnancy when I got so tired and truly felt like it would never end. I ate a lot of really bad foods and packed on an extra 20 lbs after I had already gained 30 during the first 8 months. I gained 20 lbs in the two months before I got pregnant so that put me up to 70 lbs total. When I gave birth to my son I was 205 lbs. He was 7 lbs 4 oz. I was determined to undo what I had unnessesarily done to myself. In the next 5 and half months I worked relentlessly on diet & excersize until I lost 84 lbs. These are my pictures.
(This is me at 10 weeks preggo at about 150 lbs)

This is me at 39 weeks pregnant 2 weeks and 1 day before my son was born. I was about 197 lbs here.

And Here is my picture journey of weighloss post pardom. I wished I had kept the baby in the background throughout the weeks, that would have been cool but I didn’t realize I was doing it until much later.
(This shows me 1-25 weeks post pardom).

(One more front pic 5.5 months post pardom).

Oh and here is a neat picture I photoshopped in of me at 36 weeks preggo at abotu 195 lbs, and about 4 months post pardum at about 135 lbs.

My baby’s website is https://www.alv2.com/
Thanks for letting me share. : )

ETA a closeup of her stretchmarks here.