Body after baby

"9 months to out it on, 9 months to get it off" Um, can we rewind a bit please?

One of the things that always bothered me when I became pregnant was "what would my body look like after having twins?"

For any pregnant person this must be a huge deal, but when our housing two beings for 9 months, surely there's bound to be some slight damage right? too right!

Before getting pregnant, I was about 8st 6 ish. I was fairly happy with my belly. My bum and legs were causing me usual grief that I think we still cause me grief on many years to come but hey that's a separate issue. One thing I did know, there would be stretchmarks. They arrived at about 30 weeks and steadily pulled their way through to the world gradually.

By 38 weeks they were definitely here to stay. Even 9 months on, I still look a little pregnant. Still have stretchmarks, although they are now fading to match my skin tone. I think, "hey, I've had two children AT THE SAME TIME". That's going to cause even the most toned, stretchy, welcoming womb a wee bit of discomfort.

So I started off like this:

About 9 weeks I think.

Growing to this at about 20 weeks.

In the mid 20s to 30s I was about the size of an average full term mumma!

And grew to this! Okay this does look pretty abnormal but I can honestly say that I have never felt better about my body than when I was pregnant. I think there's a subtle message here - not yet nanna, give me a bit of recovery!

But that's one hell of a couple of buns in that oven. 

Now, the oven looks a bit like it needs a full service or at least a bit of a remodel. I've accepted that it will never ever look like it used to. But I'm not the first and certainly not the last women to have earned her stripes!

For those of you that knew, (and laughed) my tattoo still isn't quite lined up! Why the surgeon couldn't stop his scalpel about 1cm earlier I have no idea! Maybe it's a game they play with any tattooed mothers, "let's see how many tattoos we can sew back together incorrectly today, for a laugh"! But I'm not one to get my bits out in public anyway so it's no deal biggie. 

The things we give up for our children hey? X