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Post Partum
Jul. 28th, 2006 10:41 amThis site: http://shapeofamother.blogspot.com/ is abut celebrating the post-partum body, in all of its squishiness, saggy skin and stretch marks. Which, go empowerment yay! Except it also makes me - 33 years old, 2 weeks post-partum with my second child, probably only 10 pounds above my quite thin pre-pregnancy weight and half of that is my temporary D-cups, not a stretch mark on me - shamefully vain. (I mean, people, I look foine! mr. flea ogles me!)
I know health and beauty derive from luck, not virtue, but on the other hand I spent way too long with the Greeks, who always had those things confused, object lessons in the person of Alcibiades notwithstanding.
In other post partum news, I am now going to tell of my near-death experience in the lingerie section of Nordstrom's. But I'll cut it, since while it is somewhat surreally humorous, it also involves a fair amount of post partum girly TMI. ( Read more... )
I know health and beauty derive from luck, not virtue, but on the other hand I spent way too long with the Greeks, who always had those things confused, object lessons in the person of Alcibiades notwithstanding.
In other post partum news, I am now going to tell of my near-death experience in the lingerie section of Nordstrom's. But I'll cut it, since while it is somewhat surreally humorous, it also involves a fair amount of post partum girly TMI. ( Read more... )