New Baby, New Beginnings

I was in the shower earlier and I wondered at what point, if ever, my body would go back to normal. Baby Max is now 24 days old and I am still wearing my maternity pants because my c-section incision still has stitches and I still look like I'm about 5 months pregnant because the muscles which have now all been cut on both ends of my uterus taunt me with their inability to lift me out of a chair, much less accomplish a set of crunches (one of the many things about having a baby no one really cares to share....funny).

So, then I started to wonder, at what point in life did a size 2 become the norm? Why do I feel insanely guilty because 24 freaking days after having my abdomen cut open and an actual human being removed, I am not back down to a "normal" size? It is ridiculous.

In response to all of this foolish thought, I wondered if other moms out there have struggled after the birth of a child, not just with body issues, but with the guilt of going back to work, how to juggle multiple children without making one feel slighted, cooking dinner vs. takeout, etc. I am going to get back into blogging and I am going to be brutally honest with my own journey through these changes. I am also going to use this medium to post recipes, craft ideas, household tips, kid stuff, all the things we moms want to talk about and sometimes we just don't.

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