Comments on: Unpretty http://www.lifeunrefined.com/unpretty/ Stories of love, faith, and finding the perfect outfit. Thu, 30 May 2024 02:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Gabby http://www.lifeunrefined.com/unpretty/#comment-15272 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:01:39 +0000 http://www.lifeunrefined.com/?p=877#comment-15272 Your body will continue to change for about 18 months after delivery. With a first child, I feel the bounce back period is shorter. It was definitely longer with the second. While pregnant with my first, I received Victoria Secret catalogs in the mail twice a week (without fail!!) addressed to the previous owner. Talk about a slap in the face. They are in tiny string bikinis and I feel like an elephant. Embrace each body stage, just like growing a baby, your body will change seemingly overnight some times. It is not easy. You will have days you feel great and days you feel lower than scum. Feel the feels and keep moving. Progress, not perfection. That is your stride. And your motto is: This is only a phase and this too shall pass. Don’t get so lost in your own body woes to not fully enjoy your daughter. These days of tininess are fleeting!

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]]> By: Christine http://www.lifeunrefined.com/unpretty/#comment-15265 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:35:50 +0000 http://www.lifeunrefined.com/?p=877#comment-15265 Glad you got a good cry in. I remember needing that too. Such a big change, so glad you’re getting permission to just be. It’s not easy feeling broken and out of whack.

( I love the pics. You look great as usual.)

]]> By: Kristen C http://www.lifeunrefined.com/unpretty/#comment-15264 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:17:48 +0000 http://www.lifeunrefined.com/?p=877#comment-15264 p.s. Love that you’re still making some time to write. I hope it helps you feel like you.

]]> By: Kristen C http://www.lifeunrefined.com/unpretty/#comment-15263 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:16:48 +0000 http://www.lifeunrefined.com/?p=877#comment-15263 I love this post. I think your daughter is very lucky to have you as a mom! I also believe that the Holy Spirit will work through you to help her see herself the way God does and will work through her to do the same for you.

There are a LOT of body changes that happen in pregnancy and after – in some ways, so many that you forget to keep track of them all, because what’s one more. One thing that I have appreciated over time has been the hubby saying, “Thank you for going through this so we can have children.” It lets me know that he sees me and that the marks and mush are another reason to love me. Sure, it doesn’t take away the insecurities entirely (I am still really struggling with that, to be honest), but it does help. Also the cutie pie baby helps. And being a few months after the crazy hormones.

]]> By: Virginia http://www.lifeunrefined.com/unpretty/#comment-15262 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:13:57 +0000 http://www.lifeunrefined.com/?p=877#comment-15262 I remember the waddling, the donut (and not the kind you eat), and the experience of post partum– definitely my least favorite part of the process. Hang in there.

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