The Search for Chic – Post – Baby Pink

{ top shop tunic, lk bennet pearls, top shop 'baxter' stretch denim,
chanel sunglasses, the mitford girls by mary. s. lovell }

I am now able to sleep on my tummy. This doesn’t seem like a big deal but when that is your sleeping position of choice, and has been since you were a child, and it is unavailable to you as an option it’s awful. I’ve been through various sleeping positions over my recent pregnancy and subsequent C-Section – sleeping upright with approximately twenty pillows behind me, sleeping on my side in the middle of a huge maternity pillow called ‘The Hook’, sleeping on my back (this didn’t work out as I couldn’t breathe OR get off the bed. Panic attack thus ensued)

So being able to sleep on my front again has felt like a long lost friend has finally come back to stay….FOREVER!

Finding clothes for my current shape, post pregnancy, has revolved around finding items that flatter my bulging middle and don’t sit too tight on my waist or C-Section scar. Hipster jeans are out as the scar sits low and look rather odd with my newly acquired muffin top and tiny t-shirts depicting vintage cartoon characters, which were a favourite of mine, are also out as all I’d do is sit there grabbing my middle and wondering if it’ll be my constant traveling companion or disappear eventually.

Having babies at this age, thirty four, was perfect for me in many ways. I’ve travelled, pursued dreams for many years and then had the time to change direction and pursue something altogether different, met wonderful people and met total idiots. I’ve lived a wee bit. Which is great as I don’t have that acute feeling of missing out on anything as I raise my babies.

But the flip side of having them at this age is that I had a very long time to get used to the body I was living in. So to see something SUPER different in the changing room mirror is taking some getting used to. By the way, if clothing stores want you to buy their merchandise why on earth do the changing rooms insist on making you look so awful? You’d think they’d work on the lighting if they wanted to make more money instead of making you feel like nothing will ever suit you again and forcing you to pass the huge pile of clothes back to the assistant, thus burying her under a pile of rejected sundresses, and leaving you to walk out of the shop with self-esteem reluctantly following along behind.

Before you write in and tell me that I should not be thinking about such frivolous things so soon after giving birth, please don’t bother. I am very much looking forward to being able to exercise and feel strong again after such a long break from physical activity. I love being active, pure and simple, can’t help it and don’t want to.

When I feel great physically life is much more manageable and vital when you have twins and your own business to run.

But until that time comes I am dressing with my body and not against it. Which is why I adore this baby pink tunic top. It is soft and hangs over, not against, my torso. I’m very glad that this shape is available absolutely everywhere.

I’ve dressed it with chunky pearls and stretch jeans ( stretch, obviously, being the operative word), Heidi plaits and a simple pink ribbon choker.

This journey isn’t about thin again. It’s about being strong and feeling strong. Not easy, not easy at all. But then all you Mummies know that already and it’s nice to be part of the gang……..wobbly tummy or not!

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