Embracing the postpartum bump ✨

“Omg why does she still look pregnant if she already had the baby?”.… “Why does she still have a baby bump?”…

Um hello, hey, it’s me the lady that still looked pregnant 3 months after having the baby out of her body.

& to be honest, at a year & a half postpartum, I STILL look pregnant even if I get slightly bloated cause guess what? My body is bigger now.

We don’t just grow a baby when we’re pregnant. Our organs grow, our bone structures widen, our skin stretches, our WHOLE body grows.

& of course, especially our womb (our uterus) to make room for baby, the pal wants & all the extra blood.

After having a baby, our body doesn’t just magically re-absorb everything & we snap back to our pre-baby body.

Just like it took 10 months for our bellies to grow, it will also take a while for our wombs to shrink & not “look pregnant” anymore.

So please, never make these comments about a mother that just had a baby. Cause it’s NORMAL, their body is healing & honestly it’s plain rude.

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