big footed mommy?

I have no doubt my friends were hiding pregnancy details from me - all part of their elaborate plans to get to me to give in, take the plunge and get pregnant.

And it worked. Until now, I had no idea what odd things could become of a woman's body these nine months. And beyond.

The weight gain I was prepared for (somewhat). But, I could never have anticipated what a colleague told me the other day.

"My feet grew a whole size and a half," she said. "I still can't fit into my pre-pregnancy shoes!"

She had children a few years ago.

No!!!!

That's the last thing I could have anticipated. And I have such cute shoes! What a cruel joke.

What evolutionary benefit could bigger feet possibly confer on a mother? Extra balance??

Phooey. What's next? Don't tell me my boobs will get smaller once I breastfeed!

Comments

[Gen]

I am 6 feet tall, and about 150 pounds
I was a size 34, c cup
Then came child #1 - I then wore size B cup
got back my figure, 150 pounds, one cup smaller

Then child # 2 came --- still got my figure back, even more, 145 pounds, but am a size A cup !!!!

#$%^&*(

[keebler123]

Here's the uncensored truth of the matter when it comes to pregnancy and afterwards. You look fat in the beginning, not pregnant, your appetite is insane, you MUST NAP every afternoon, you become forgetful, overly emotional and irrational, you may develop ugly stretch marks that might never go away, you may feel like puking A LOT, you might get terrible heartburn preventing you from sleeping (which you likely aren't doing anyways because you have to pee every 10 minutes) and the list of ailments go on and on. Then, you get to experience the marvels of birth - which is (I am not going to sugar coat it) EXTREMELY painful and even humiliating. If you aren't so lucky to have that experience, you get to be cut open. And after that you shake uncontrollably preventing you from having a moment of peace to hold your new baby while you de-tox from all the drugs that were shot into your back with LARGE needle. After you finally go home from the hospital, you bleed A LOT and for a VERY LONG time while you take strong pain killers to take the edge off the terrible pain. All the while, you don't get any sleep because your infant cries all night long and the only thing you can do to stop it is to breastfeed what seems like every 5 minutes which causes your nipples to be cracked and also bleed. You might need painkillers for this also if you can find ones that you are allowed to take while breastfeeding. Oh, by the way, your breasts will never be the same.

Your friends may not have expressed how hard it is to become a mother because once you have your baby, none of this matters - and you truly forget the all that you have had to endure. All that matters is that you have your healthy little bundle of joy and it is worth every moment of suffering!