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June 2012 Moms
Just give me a blanket, and I can remember....
....what it was like to have a flat stomach. It's happened twice for me today. I woke up this morning with the blanket over me, and Baby was still sleeping. For a moment, I felt as if I were back 6 months ago, with no bump. And I have to say, it was delicious. For a moment, I was my normal size. I felt sexy again. Without seeing the bump, I just felt so normal. It happened again just now on the couch. I was laying on my side, blanket over me, Baby moving this time. But it's as if he was removed from my waist, and I was thin again. Oh, a waist! What a nice thought! I think it helps that I'm reading running blogs, remember what it feels like to come home from a nice, hard workout and feeling great about my weight. I think it makes the weight gain, clumsiness, waddling and muffin top so much easier to deal with when there's hope for a new-and-improved hot mama body just a few months away! 
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Re: Just give me a blanket, and I can remember....
Cut yourself some slack...and be prepared for the horrible postpartum. You'll be longing for the days when you had a hard bump, instead of flab and extra skin.
The pregnant body is beautiful in it's own way. Try to enjoy the next couple of months!
I do that too sometimes in the morning. For a moment before I get up, for a few seconds I forget I am pregnant. Until I am struggling to swing my feet off the bed and stand upright!
I can't wait to have a normal body again, but I am fearful I won't ever actually have that. And I completely agree with cchill01 - the hard bump isn't bad, it is usually rather cute (although I am growing beyond the "cute" belly phase) what isn't cute at all is the saggy baggy skin after the baby. At least now, we have a belly because there is a baby in there, what happens when that baby is OUT in the in between phase? My friend at work had a baby right after Thanksgiving and someone asked her yesterday at the store is she was pregnant. I will seriously crawl up in a ball and die! Someone asked her the same thing when she was at the hospital visiting her LO (he had to stay for a few days after she was released) - "oh how many months are you" - granted that is just days after...but the thought of having to say "nope not pregnant anymore just fat kills me"
I have had fleeting thoughts of what it will be like when I'm not pregnant anymore. There's a picture on my phone of my dog laying in my lap and all I had on were underwear. I can see maybe a quarter of my bare, flat stomach and I think, "Will I ever look like that again? How much weight will I lose after birth? How much further will I have to go after that? Will I be able to wear my pre-pregnancy clothes?"
I'm enjoying being and looking pregnant, but I can hardly remember what it was like to be thin!
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