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MelissaMisoMelissaMiso member
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I want to be beautiful and hip but I'm just too tired.

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  • MelissaMisoMelissaMiso member
    how do women with infants look so put together? I should say, how does every other woman except myself look so put together???? ha!

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  • TabClarkTabClark member
    I think the same thing. I am always tired. Between working 50 + hours a week and having a baby... ugh! I need to find the time and energy to lose the rest of this weight and get myself put back together. Some moms seem to just bounce back and look amazing... not here ;(
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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    I've never been the type that looks put together so instead I embrace the soccer mom look, with three kids and a mini van I figure it's who i am so I might as well try to make it look good on me.

    The weight yeah I've given up, I'm 31 three kids the youngest two are 18 months apart I'm giving myself 18 months to get my body back and I'm enjoying my bfing boobs before they're gone for floppy deflated balloons.
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  • picklesxpicklesx member

    imageMelissaMiso:
    how do women with infants look so put together? I should say, how does every other woman except myself look so put together???? ha!

    Maybe it's because my kid is so mellow, but I can't relate to the moms that say that they don't have time to shower/do their hair/makeup/get dressed because of their babies. When he was a newborn, DS would sleep peacefully in his bouncer on the bathroom floor while I showered and got ready for the day. Now I put his pack and play right outside the bathroom door so I can see him while I shower, I do my makeup (downstairs in the living room) while he drinks his bottle or plays or bounces in his jumper, and then I take him back upstairs to play in his playpen while I dry my hair. He crawls around on the bedroom floor while I get dressed and talk or sing to him. It certainly takes a little bit longer than it did pre-baby, but it's not impossible.

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  • stemms8810stemms8810 member

    I can manage to get a shower, put my make-up on and get dressed but I seriously need some new clothes!  I haven't bought any since before I got pregnant so not too much fits well.  Thankfully my mom got me some nice sweaters for Christmas.  Mostly, I just don't look hip though!

    Getting my hair cut has made me feel sooo much better about myself!  If anything do that for yourself!

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  • tryston123tryston123 member

    imageTabClark:
    Some moms seem to just bounce back and look amazing... not here ;(

    100% THIS!I feel like no matter what i do i cannot dorp this extera weight! urg... and to make it worse LO just stopped EBF soooo not im not burring that extera "500" calories a day darn it...

       EDD for #2 is December 8th, 2013, so excited for our 2nd team green baby! 
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    imagepicklesx:

    imageMelissaMiso:
    how do women with infants look so put together? I should say, how does every other woman except myself look so put together???? ha!

    Maybe it's because my kid is so mellow, but I can't relate to the moms that say that they don't have time to shower/do their hair/makeup/get dressed because of their babies. When he was a newborn, DS would sleep peacefully in his bouncer on the bathroom floor while I showered and got ready for the day. Now I put his pack and play right outside the bathroom door so I can see him while I shower, I do my makeup (downstairs in the living room) while he drinks his bottle or plays or bounces in his jumper, and then I take him back upstairs to play in his playpen while I dry my hair. He crawls around on the bedroom floor while I get dressed and talk or sing to him. It certainly takes a little bit longer than it did pre-baby, but it's not impossible.

    Yes, count yourself extremely lucky for such a mellow baby...and try to realize this is NOT how all babies are. I love DD with ALL my heart, but she is the eptiome of a velcro baby and a mama's girl.  She has literally wanted to be in constant contact with my body since she was born. The first 6 months I didn't take a single shower longer than 10minutes (and usually only 2-3times a week) and every single one was with her screaming bloody murder.

    Even now at 8 months she does fine with other people as long as I am not in the room but if I am, she will not tolerate being away from me. I have become her personal jungle gym as I say, and everytime our bodies seperate she will scream,,,and when I say scream I mean "holy heck someone is killing that baby scream".....So, all this is to say that it is extremely difficult to find the time to put myself "together".

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  • MelissaMisoMelissaMiso member

    It's not only about the baby either. Working a full time and a part time job, extra time spent pumping, and having spent over two months with the 3 of us living in a spare room at my inlaw's post house hurricane flood/getting my house back in order have all contributed to my un-hipness.

    My plan is too become so un-hip that I loop back around to a state of hipness.


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