08/09/2025
just in case anyone else who had a baby needs to hear this too.. getting used to/accepting/celebrating/tolerating your postpartum body is harrrrrd. As someone who has always been active and who has centred movement and fitness in my life, every day/week/hour I feel different about my body. Even now that I’m feeling stronger, I still can’t run and jump without a little p*e leak, can’t dance the same yet, I feel tighter, I have joints that bother me from carrying my big wonderful baby, my weight fluctuates weekly, I avoid Pilates because the exercises I love feel so different in my body now… There are weeks I feel amazing and then I try on pre-pregnancy clothing and it still doesn’t fit.
BUT THEN, I think about how my body grew my perfect, sweet boy and keeps him fed and thriving while still exclusively breastfeeding, how I was able to experience an unmedicated and no intervention labour and delivery that I will cherish forever and I remember I’m fu***ng superhuman and am in awe of how amazing this body of mine is. Also, I’m still strong af and lifting heavier weights than I was pre-pregnancy. And then the cycle starts all over again the next minute when I go to jump or run or look in the mirror or fit in my old pants😂.. so anyway, postpartum is a trip and if you’re also feeling this, I see you. I am you. This is the body we are in for this season and it’s amazing and it sucks and it’s okay to feel 100 different ways about it all at once💕