Feeling like myself
Hey mamas! I’m 3 months postpartum and have been struggling with my body image. My question is, how long did it take you to feel back to yourself? I also had a c-section and don’t know if my belly will ever lose it’s pooch.
Also, I know looks aren’t everything but its just hard not feeling like myself. Every time I think a negative thought about my weight, I think about how my body gave me my daughter and it makes it a little bit better. 🩷
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I try to remind myself to "be happy where you are while trying to get where you want to be". I was once 50+lbs more. I only lost about 15 after birth. But I'm not where I was. I wanted to be where I am. Now to find post cesarean minded work outs for fupas. Lol
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It took until I got medicated for PPD. and then I ran out and didn't go to get a refill and lost a lot of weight because PPD. Somehow (prolly cause the decade+ of depression experience) I got myself back up and now that I'm back with my coping mechs, I feel pretty good. It took maybe 14 months before I came off the struggle bus, got to what I wanted to be, SURPRISE I lost more because physiology, and now I'm underweight, more than I was prebaby though and kind of gave up.. but happily. My body did the one thing I needed it to do. Even on my "I look sick" skinny days, I have a pooch. And it was enhanced by the scar because I've always been a lil soft but not shelfed out. It was flat tummy with a pudge. It'll always be different. And this different will soon be our normal. Then "I can't remember ever not". And we'll be happy in all those phases because babies.