Pregnancy lasts 9 months, or 10 months depending on how you count it, but after the baby is born and your body ceases to be a vessel for growing tiny humans - you'll find things are never quite the same again.
After effects of pregnancy, in my case:
Stretch marks, though they fade, they never go away.
When I buckle my seatbelt I still automatically place it as low on my abdomen as possible, under the imaginary baby bump.
My surgeon was AMAZING and my c-section scar is barely noticable, and it's only been two years. But it does remain.
Throughout many collective months of "morning" sickness and gagging everytime I brushed my back teeth, I still have trouble with that. When I brush right away in the morning I have to be careful where my tongue is or I gag, later in the morning or day I'm fine. Apparently morning sickness can remain long after babies are born?
After months of eating healthier, minimizing caffeine, not so much as a drop of alcohol touching my lips, once my babies were born and nursing allowed, I said goodbye to vitamins, and hello to my daily pot of coffee and my occasional beer/wine. I probably eat the worst after I have my babies than I do at other times, because after months of my body belonging to the baby, I wanted it back!
That little mommy-pouch below the bellybutton, unless you are one of those tiny hundred-pound mommas, are incredibly difficult to get rid of... though I persevere.
I have at times been so convinced that intestinal rumblings were little baby kicks that I once took a pregnancy test to make sure. Many gas bubbles feel like early-on baby kicks.
And then there's the whole - "there's a child in my house" part.
As far as I'm concerned I'm done with the having babies thing, so maybe these things will go away eventually? (Except the whole "child in my house" thing... that takes at least 18 years).
I know there's more to add to this list, so what have you got?!
My Mother’s House
4 years ago
