Seeing your belly round out over the days when you are pregnant is one of the most beautiful things in the world. The bigger your belly gets, the closer the baby's arrival is. However, after giving birth, the euphoria and emotion go down and so does our view of our body.
When I finally had my little wonder in my hands, it was one of the happiest days of my life. At that time, my body didn't matter much to me. It was rather after leaving the hospital, when all my loved ones came to visit me and I had to make myself beautiful that the task became complicated. I didn't like my body anymore, I couldn't find any clothes that I thought would flatter me. A pressure set in to get my old body back. However, it's not as easy as the magazines make it out to be. It's a process that takes time and that's normal, you shouldn't rush but take your time to listen to your body and its needs.
The first step towards accepting my body was to talk about it with other young mothers, to realize that these changes were normal. They were the only people who could understand me completely. In addition, knowing that I was not alone in this situation was in some way comforting. I also realized that I would never get my body back 100% and that I had to accept these changes, whether it was in my skin or my curves.
After this phase of acceptance, my main goal was not to find my old body but to find a body in which I feel good, in which I feel comfortable, feminine and pretty. Neuvième Ciel clothes were a great help to me. Indeed, wearing clothes adapted to breastfeeding and a little looser sometimes to hide what I personally felt as imperfections allowed me to feel better in my skin while maintaining comfort in order to breastfeed baby in peace. Some tunics, in particular the Vernazza tunic, helped me to appreciate this body that had changed, I was able to feel more elegant and find myself pretty when looking at myself in the mirror.
I then learned to pamper my body, to take care of it. During the nine months of pregnancy, my body took shape, my skin changed. It was therefore necessary to respect my body after what it had endured. So I took time for myself in order to feel better in my body. I was able to take care of myself with creams, go to the spa or simply take a little time for myself. I also accepted the fact that my body had changed, that it would never return to the way it was before, that it would keep some scars and that I had to learn to love it as it was now.
To conclude this article, I will say that the postpartum period was a turning point in my life. It was a time when I asked myself a lot of questions between my new life as a mother and my body changes. The key in this period is therefore to remain patient, to realize that our body after giving birth will change, that we can still find ourselves beautiful even as a mother. We must therefore be patient and give time to time in order to regain tone and heal. And of course, the most important thing to remember is that if you give yourself the means, you will succeed in achieving your goals, in finding a body that you like and that allows you to feel beautiful every day.