More random thoughts to ponder...

Thought it might be time to share some more random thoughts... Enjoy.

The belly... I never mourned the loss of my belly during pregnancy. Instead I delighted in watching it grow. Maybe that's because I wasn't the perfect size 6 with 6pack abs to begin with? I still checked with glee as I passed 30cm and 40, and even 50. By that point I was downright amazed at the stretchability of the human skin and perhaps indecently facinated with wondering just how big I could go before I litterally exploded. Thank goodness I never had to find out.

Breastfeeding... And unfortunately the breast feeding thing didn't work out for us for reasons I won't bore you with here. While I didn't love the month I toughed it out in excruciating pain and near constant tears I am a thrilled to see friends, also with twins, manage it sucessfully (so many kudos to them). What makes me even more covetous? Thanks to BF watching them drop all the pregnancy weight & pre-pregnancy weight gain, and fit back into their highschools clothes in plenty of time for their 20 year reunions. PLBBTT!! Enough said.

Strech Marks ... Even the stetch marks don't bother me. And believe me I looked like someone took a red magic marker (the magnum chisel tip variety) and cover my entire belly in vertical stripes. Wait, I said that past tense didn't I? Oops, I still look like that. Okay, maybe a little has changed. After 6 months the 3 inches around my belly button looks like someone scrubbed the marker off to where you can only see the faint resemblance of what was there before. Still doens't phase me.

Belly button... What does bother me... and here's the part where if you are easily grossed out you should skip on ahead... is my belly button. It was a semi cute dime size before pregnancy and although super close to becoming an outie at the end it never did. It's now closer to ... [gingling change]... yep quarter sized. Heck, I think you could even fit a roll of quarters in there. While certianly not attractive, that's still not what bugs me. What drives me absoultely insane? The fact that I have to clean the darn thing out with an alcohol doused cotton ball twice daily to keep from accumulating astonishing amounts of disgustingly stinky goup and yes, red, diaper like rash. YUCK!!!

Enough about my body, even I am grossed out, now...

How about other peoples comments? We will skip the trite twin ones, we have all heard enough of those...

How about this one... "You have really taken to motherhood." Why did you think I wouldn't?? Just because I didn't want to hold your little snotty nosed kid? Let's face the facts. Other kids snot is not attractive. Heck, my own babies' snot isn't particularly attractive. Although I do get a good laugh when once in a while they get to laughing so hard that snot comes out one end, and well, stuff comes out the other end, too.

Oh yeah, I was stopping the gross stuff...

Hmm... How about Triage from a distance? This morning with my husband in the bathroom and not watching the children, again... I could hear the boys fussing. Baby A was hungry, and Baby B was bored being left in the bouncer without any toys to play with. It's sad that I know just what rah rah, aaaaaahhhhh, ugh, ugh ugh means from the other room.

I am sure there a few more rattling around in here somewhere, but the babies are starting to fuss and my husband is tapping impatiently.

 

lol thanks for that

 

QUOTE(beemer @ Aug 30 2008, 09:48 AM) [snapback]954659[/snapback]
Thought it might be time to share some more random thoughts... Enjoy.

The belly... I never mourned the loss of my belly during pregnancy. Instead I delighted in watching it grow. Maybe that's because I wasn't the perfect size 6 with 6pack abs to begin with? I still checked with glee as I passed 30cm and 40, and even 50. By that point I was downright amazed at the stretchability of the human skin and perhaps indecently facinated with wondering just how big I could go before I litterally exploded. Thank goodness I never had to find out.


Im with you on this--it was actually OKAy to be the size of a whale and loved it

Breastfeeding... And unfortunately the breast feeding thing didn't work out for us for reasons I won't bore you with here. While I didn't love the month I toughed it out in excruciating pain and near constant tears I am a thrilled to see friends, also with twins, manage it sucessfully (so many kudos to them). What makes me even more covetous? Thanks to BF watching them drop all the pregnancy weight & pre-pregnancy weight gain, and fit back into their highschools clothes in plenty of time for their 20 year reunions. PLBBTT!! Enough said.
I never got to either--only for around 6 weeks until I couldnt produce enough
Strech Marks ... Even the stetch marks don't bother me. And believe me I looked like someone took a red magic marker (the magnum chisel tip variety) and cover my entire belly in vertical stripes. Wait, I said that past tense didn't I? Oops, I still look like that. Okay, maybe a little has changed. After 6 months the 3 inches around my belly button looks like someone scrubbed the marker off to where you can only see the faint resemblance of what was there before. Still doens't phase me.
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: --Sounds like me too
Belly button... What does bother me... and here's the part where if you are easily grossed out you should skip on ahead... is my belly button. It was a semi cute dime size before pregnancy and although super close to becoming an outie at the end it never did. It's now closer to ... [gingling change]... yep quarter sized. Heck, I think you could even fit a roll of quarters in there. While certianly not attractive, that's still not what bugs me. What drives me absoultely insane? The fact that I have to clean the darn thing out with an alcohol doused cotton ball twice daily to keep from accumulating astonishing amounts of disgustingly stinky goup and yes, red, diaper like rash. YUCK!!!

I think my bb is still the same size although I dont recall looking
Enough about my body, even I am grossed out, now...

How about other peoples comments? We will skip the trite twin ones, we have all heard enough of those...

How about this one... "You have really taken to motherhood." Why did you think I wouldn't?? Just because I didn't want to hold your little snotty nosed kid? Let's face the facts. Other kids snot is not attractive. Heck, my own babies' snot isn't particularly attractive. Although I do get a good laugh when once in a while they get to laughing so hard that snot comes out one end, and well, stuff comes out the other end, too.

Oh yeah, I was stopping the gross stuff...

Hmm... How about Triage from a distance? This morning with my husband in the bathroom and not watching the children, again... I could hear the boys fussing. Baby A was hungry, and Baby B was bored being left in the bouncer without any toys to play with. It's sad that I know just what rah rah, aaaaaahhhhh, ugh, ugh ugh means from the other room.

I am sure there a few more rattling around in here somewhere, but the babies are starting to fuss and my husband is tapping impatiently.


You are hilarious

April

 

Ok, here we go, I think I can relate to all of these...

The Belly, Bellybutton & Stretchmarks: Prepregnancy I had a really flat stomach - not 6 pack abs or anything, but just a small frame and good genes I guess. Always took it for granted, as about 95% of my diet consisted of junk food - cheez-its was a staple in my diet. I used to go running and would just crave them, making me go faster to get home to them. And still struggled to stay above 110 lbs - (like I said good genes). Needless to say it was a rough transition to eating fruits and veggies and (trying) to stay away from the junk when I got pregnant. I was so excited to see it start to grow at like 10 weeks. My belly button popped out at 13 weeks! I was in my sister's wedding at 15 weeks and everyone could clearly see I was pregnant (I had to have the dress taken out and it barely made it). I'd say as I grew I got more and more excited - because it made it more and more real. But right around 30 weeks I started to get a little scared, the stretch marks started to appear and I started to wonder "what happens to this extra skin after?" I don't know my final measurements, but do know I gained 57 lbs. Every time I went to the doctor I had a new number like, well as long as I don't top X - and then by the next appointment I would. I did have Pre-E in the end, so hopefully a lot was water Anyway, I lost the weight, but as I feared my stomach looks nowhere near the same as before. It bulges out by my belly button due to my diastisis, you can see after I've eaten too much the intestines gurgling around underneath, like there's some animal in there kicking around. My belly button is still partially an outtie (due to the diastisis) and there is wrinkled extra skin above it. Otherwise the skin isn't so bad, unless I'm sitting - then it's absolutely disgusting. Then there are the stretchmarks about an inch in diameter surrounding my belly button. Needless to say, I will forever be wearing one piece bathing suits in the future.

Breastfeeding - I didn't completely decide what I wanted to do beforehand. I was leaning towards FF, but still felt guilty because I knew BF was best. After my episode with the Pre-E and being stuck on the magnesium in the hospital, I was like decision made we're FF. A week later my son started grunting like crazy after every feeding. I felt awful, like I was doing this to him and I should have BF instead. Now that time has passed, I'm ok with my decision and would probably still FF next time. But the expense is really rough...

Other people's comments - Can't think of any other than the typical "you have your hands full" or "is that twins?" or "are they identical?" after they point out how lucky we are to have one of each. But I can relate to not wanting to hold other people's snot nose kids! Now I will touch my own babies' booger or pick out the ear wax with my bare finger - I never thought I would do something like that!

Triage from a distance - I made my husband take over last night since I was on all day and night last week and was exhausted. 5am I wake up to my daughter crying and wait for him to go in there. Finally I get up and see him snoring away on the couch, monitor off. I rewrap her and try to get my son to go back to sleep since she woke him. Then I went back down and turned his monitor on. This morning I get the bottles ready for him and go back to bed. But I did not sleep because I heard the whining and fussing. I don't know what he was doing, I didn't get up to check on them. Just annoyed he wasn't playing with them and keeping them happy. No, they weren't crying, but they sounded awfully bored to me. I was torn whether I should get up and play or try to sleep. Turns out I did neither and just layed there. I get up to find them napping finally, my husband conked out next to my son on our bed. Part of the reason I can't nap when they do is because they wake up in 45 minutes and I do whatever it takes to get them to go back to sleep (and they never fall asleep at the same time, so that gives me like what - 20 minutes?) I figure them getting a good nap and not being cranky is worth the sacrifice of me not getting one. So sure enough my son is rolling around awake, and my husband is snoring away next to him.
But I should be grateful, I know he was tired too. And he at least tried to help me get some more sleep...

 

I love these thoughts! :good:

 

I want you to know I really look forward to your posts and just got pissy at dh when he was trying to help me (the water for my tea was boiling) because I wanted to read your post uninterrupted!!!

 

the belly I didn't have a flat stomach either....but now when I look back at pictures, I am so ENVIOUS of my former body!!! I will never have the same stomach, I am a bearer of Twin Skin. YUCK. I do love to look back at pictures of my large baby belly while I was still pregnant & marvel at how HUGE I got!!! I'm impressed with myself

breastfeeding I totally planned on breastfeeding, but my girls were in the NICU for 2 weeks and were bottle fed there. I never ended up producing enough to stop supplementing with formula, so I just gave in & went full out formula fed. I am fine with it & the girls don't know anything different. They're healthy & happy and that's all that matters!

stretchmarks I have them all over my belly too....BUT I also have them on my THIGHS (??!?!?!) and....possibly TMI, but on my butt crack too!!! WTH?!?! I don't know if my butt suddenly expanded overnight or where those came from, but I'm not happy about it.

belly button I was always SO PROUD of my belly button pre-pregnancy. I was a preemie at birth (born at 28 weeks) so my belly button was small & super cute. Well, now it's not even a shadow of it's former self. It's still kind of an outtie & just not cute. I can't explain it....sorry about the smelly gunk in yours!


Beemer, you crack me up! I love your random thoughts, please keep them coming :lol:

 

Thank you so much! I love to hear real thoughts, you know. I'm really sick of "Oh, just you wait!" and "You're going to have your hands full!" and my fave "How are you going to manage with twins?" I'd much rather hear something concrete like how to deal with a strachted out belly button! You rock! :banana:

 

QUOTE(BeckiAllen1130 @ Aug 30 2008, 02:56 PM) [snapback]955023[/snapback]
stretchmarks I have them all over my belly too....BUT I also have them on my THIGHS (??!?!?!) and....possibly TMI, but on my butt crack too!!! WTH?!?! I don't know if my butt suddenly expanded overnight or where those came from, but I'm not happy about it.



LMAO!!! :rotflmbo:

I hear you on this one!! I thought I was the only one!! My tummy is not totally covered, but I do have some on my thighs, it looks like I just slapped my upper thighs, right up front, and BAM left stretchmarks... But incredibly enough... as I was bent over in front of the mirror yesterday (will NOT share how that came about :blush: ) I noticed some right on the top of my buttcrack!!!! LOL!!! At least no one other than DF ever sees them!! lol

At least we're all in this together!! :grouphug:

Shannon

 

QUOTE(DeniseT @ Aug 30 2008, 10:16 AM) [snapback]954760[/snapback]
Anyway, I lost the weight, but as I feared my stomach looks nowhere near the same as before. It bulges out by my belly button due to my diastisis, you can see after I've eaten too much the intestines gurgling around underneath, like there's some animal in there kicking around. Needless to say, I will forever be wearing one piece bathing suits
in the future.


I want you know after I stuffed myself at a bday celebration today I had to go watch my belly in the mirror afterwards to see if the gurgling intestines were going to town and I just hadn't noticed before. I can say, despite a plethora of other belly issues I apparently still have enough padding that my intestines are keeping to themselves.

And as far as bathing suits go, I think I will just go nekid and swim in a mumu.

 

QUOTE(BeckiAllen1130 @ Aug 30 2008, 01:56 PM) [snapback]955023[/snapback]
stretchmarks I have them all over my belly too....BUT I also have them on my THIGHS (??!?!?!) and....possibly TMI, but on my butt crack too!!! WTH?!?! I don't know if my butt suddenly expanded overnight or where those came from, but I'm not happy about it.


Now see what you have done!?!? You know I am going to have to go look now, too.... And I don't even want to know how exactly you noticed those the first time...

 

It's all SO true, and hilarious all at the same time! Thanks for sharing!

Belly/Stretchmarks- I had a flat stomach pre-pg so I was a little anxious to see what a twin pregnancy would do to it. I was so proud to be stretch mark free at 31 wks along measuring at 41cm, but it seemed just as I began to rejoice that the first stretch mark appeared and then they multiplied and replenished around my belly button. My girls preferred to be on the left side of my stomach for some reason so I was lopsided the last 3 months of my pg and thus I have more lose skin/stretchmarks on the left side of my stomach. FUN! I also got some on my hips which I never noticed until post-pg. My hips definately became wider (if that's a word) and I ended up having to have a c-section so it's like such a waste that my body had to go through widening my hips for nothing I got stretch marks on my boobs when my milk came in, but I didn't care, I was happy to go from an A to a C. Post pg I was able to lose all the weight but the extra twinskin remains. So if there is a place looking for skin donations, SIGN ME UP!

Breastfeeding: Happy to say that we were able to bf succesfully and did so until the girls were almost 10 months old. Unfortunately when the bf was gone my boobs were suddenly gone as well.

Belly Button: Average size, I guess you could have called it cute. It popped when I was about 4-5 months pg. Post pg it looks like a very sad sad belly button if I ever saw one. it's stuck in a constant frown surrounded by what remains of my stretchmarks. I can't say that I can fit a roll of coins in it and I don't have to clean it out but it's definately not your average 23 year olds belly button.

MJ

 

2betterthan1 I'm SO glad I'm not the only one!! :rotflmbo: My husband has never said anything about them, so I don't even know if he's noticed.

Beemer Sorry!! hahaha So did you find anything?? ardon:

Being pregnant with twins was really hard on my body & totally changed it, but I'm getting used to it & I love my bigger boobs!! :banana: I figure if all I have is a weird belly button, stretchmarks & twin skin, well I earned it carrying my two beautiful daughters! :wub:

 

QUOTE(BeckiAllen1130 @ Aug 31 2008, 11:09 AM) [snapback]955983[/snapback]
Beemer Sorry!! hahaha So did you find anything?? ardon:


I don't think so, but I didn't really get a good look. My husband came in just as I .... ummm... was getting poised to get a good look. The look he gave me was priceless. I was a bit embarassed at first, then laughing too hard to finish. :blush:

 

You guys are funny!

I don't have time to reply to everything, but I do have stretchmarks, my belly button is lost in my flabby stomach, and my boobs look like that of a woman in National Geographic! They are actually smaller and sag after a total of 3 1/2 years of BF kids. (I would LOVE implants, but with five daughters I just don't think it sends the right message, you know?) Oh, and I have been left with lovely varicose veins on my legs. So bathing suits.... yeah right!

My children are absolutely perfect though!

And some day when I have the time I will be back in shape and do something about my veins. For now I just wear granny underwear and capri pants. Sigh... :cry:

 

The Belly -- I have more rolls than a deli! DD says I have alot of GUSH- I call it TWIN GUSH!

Stretchmarks- I can relate to the marker comment- nuf said

Breastfeeding- Believe it or not but I did it for 3 months and didn't have any issues (not like the first time around wiht my DD) but I stopped just because I was between bf'ing and supplementing feedings were like 2 hrs long-- just too much. I am a MUCH happier mommy just on formula but I did enjoy bfing this time around. AND NO- I DIDN'T GET THE BENEFIT OF LOSING ANY WEIGHT FROM IT --- WHO DOES?

Belly button- I still don't know what it looks like-- BB's are too big!

 

You are HILARIOUS!!!!

Tummy: I had a pretty great one pre-pregnancy. Then I got THIS big...I was like a 5 foot weeble-wobble - Now it is a mess of skin & stretchmarks. Ick.
I went from bikini's a year and a half ago to the oh so flattering 'swim-dress'.
Belly Button: LOVED my cute belly button, now it is circled with wrinkled skin. It looks like what I would imagine a 75 y/o womans belly button looks like.
Breast Feeding: Didn't (couldn't - phew) do it, so my ta-ta's are still somewhat intact :good: Thank goodness cause I had a breast reduction 10 years ago!

Here's hoping for a tummy tuck somewhere in my future!!

 

QUOTE(5girlies @ Aug 31 2008, 09:17 PM) [snapback]956458[/snapback]
You guys are funny!

I don't have time to reply to everything, but I do have stretchmarks, my belly button is lost in my flabby stomach, and my boobs look like that of a woman in National Geographic! They are actually smaller and sag after a total of 3 1/2 years of BF kids. (I would LOVE implants, but with five daughters I just don't think it sends the right message, you know?) Oh, and I have been left with lovely varicose veins on my legs. So bathing suits.... yeah right!

My children are absolutely perfect though!

And some day when I have the time I will be back in shape and do something about my veins. For now I just wear granny underwear and capri pants. Sigh... :cry:



Ok that comment about the National geographic woman is FUNNY! You know what sucks? There, boobs are not sex objects like they are here.

My boobs look great! That is one thing that didn't change for the worse. I BF'd for 6 months and was sure they would look like fried eggs hanging on a nail, but that didn't happen. They do hang differently, but I actually love them.

My tummy- OH MAN!!! Do I have to go there. It looks like I got in a fight with a tiger and lost. It doesn't stick out a ton, but it does feel the same way it feels when I am making pizza dough. My daughter loves it. She says its her soft pillow.

 

QUOTE(chocomilko @ Sep 1 2008, 12:06 PM) [snapback]957200[/snapback]
Ok that comment about the National geographic woman is FUNNY! You know what sucks? There, boobs are not sex objects like they are here.

My boobs look great! That is one thing that didn't change for the worse. I BF'd for 6 months and was sure they would look like fried eggs hanging on a nail, but that didn't happen. They do hang differently, but I actually love them.

My tummy- OH MAN!!! Do I have to go there. It looks like I got in a fight with a tiger and lost. It doesn't stick out a ton, but it does feel the same way it feels when I am making pizza dough. My daughter loves it. She says its her soft pillow.



You had me laughing!