Hmmmmm am I really the only one struggling with my body????

[Lulu]

Awesome post.

Dee, you really look beautiful ok? In fact you, Nai and Rainforest look so perfectly pregnant you make me very clucky. I really mean that - Nai you were GLOWING the other day, Rainforest you radiate happy, and Dee your bump is perfect - I forgot to tell you the other day. You look like a mummy to be, it won't be much longer till its over AND.......you will feel 1000% literally as soon as he is born, once he is out...aaahhhhhh man it feels so good!

Hope the farm ain't too feral xoxoxoxo

[Ginger]

awwww, that's so sweet
you've made my day

[beau_9]

i love the fact that i'm pregnant and have this beautiful baby growing inside me, and i love it when it kicks and i can feel it move about, however i can't help but feel fat at times too.
but what i really can't deal with is the fact that other pregnant mothers and past pregnant mothers are always comparing their bellies to mine. this is so irritating and i can't stand it.
i've always been a very small frame and i still am whilst pregnant and seem to be all belly (except these lovely veins and celulite on my legs), but i have still gotten a bit concious of my growing body, and sometimes just need that encouragment, like all of us do, that our bodies are beautiful, especially whilst pregnant.
but i have lots of mums coming up to me at kindy all the time asking me when i'm due and saying oh your way smaller than me when i was at that stage, and also i have mothers come up to me and say, oh your huge at that stage and you must be having one huge baby cause i wasn't that big. then i get all concious and have to come home and check in the mirror or the net to make sure it's all right.
ridiculous i know but i can't help it. then i find myself avoiding them when i see then coming in.
i would just like the nice comments not the negative ones.....ha ha is this possible.

[Gabi]

I'm not pregnant at the moment, but I hear ya! Especially at the end of the pregnancy when those hormones were making me eat crazy crazy food. Urgh I hated my body. I think it's pretty normal.

[myson]

Ditto to the whole thing Dee.

The time between BFP and baby is really tough for me. Love feeling the movements etc and rubbing the little bump. But would be just as happy to skip it all and go straight to the delivery room! hang in there. And have a nice trip away!

[LaDeeDa]

Hi All .....

Just got back from the farm so sorry it's taken me so long to respond.

FIRSTLY- thankyou to all the wonderful ladies who posted here and let the rest of us know we're not strange or alone - as a lot of you said it can be so taboo to say "hey you know what at the moment this whole pregnancy caper just isn't grabbing me!!"

There were too many wonderful responses to start mentioning everyone but I just want to say how much I appreciate all the thoughts and feelings!!!

You know what the funny thing is though ...... no matter how crappy we feel about ourselves and how much we beat ourselves up - the thing is the majority of people think we look beautiful - maybe we should all stop being our own worst critics and listen to them more? Hmmmm..... eaier said than done but I am really gonna try.

xoxoxoxoxxoxoxox

[LaDeeDa]

ps: just found my first strech marks grrrrr ....

[SophieRose]

i'm a bit overweight as it is, but always had an hourglass figure and my body was in proportion no matter big i got. But since being pregnant, my boobs have ballooned and my tummy has gotten bigger, though not sideways, just outwards, so i already look five or six months pregnant which gets me all kinds of weird looks when i say i'm only 9 and a half weeks pregnant. i'm really hating it.

Plus my DP has lost alot of weight lately and although i'm happy for him, i have to say i'm bit jealous. Becuase he eats sooooooo much chocoloate, and fatty stuff he still loses it!!!

He keeps telling me how great i look and how sexy i am, but when you feel like your already full term, you can't quite believe it.
I hate being pregnant, i really do. My DP's family asked me the other night when we were going to have another one, to which i replied "never, i hate this"

[OceanPrincess]

...You know what the funny thing is though ...... no matter how crappy we feel about ourselves and how much we beat ourselves up - the thing is the majority of people think we look beautiful - maybe we should all stop being our own worst critics and listen to them more? Hmmmm..... eaier said than done but I am really gonna try.

Well said sister

I'm going to do the same. Or try to