The Post Baby Bod
A few weeks ago, I got a message from a sweet classmate who I hadn’t talked to for awhile. We had a brief exchange, in which I learned that she’d just been blessed with another addition to her family. But then she wrote something that caught me totally off guard: “You look fabulous!” she said, “and it amazes me that you’ve had three kids! I’ve been meaning to ask you, what is the best way to get your pre-baby body back? Does it take awhile for the pooch to go back down to normal? You should totally write a post about post-pregnancy body tips!” It made me so sad. Sad because I was talking to one of the sweetest, most beautiful women I’ve ever met, inside and out. Sad because her baby was only three weeks old and she already felt the immense pressure to look like she hadn't had a baby, instead of being able to celebrate the incredible miracle of what she and her body had just accomplished. A miracle that so many women out there are desperate to experience, but can