After birth, a woman’s belly is rarely ever the same as before pregnancy (let alone, multiple pregnancies!).
I never developed stretchmarks, but I did lose my pre-pregnancy, tight-muscled, flat belly. My cute little belly-button slit is now just a hole. My now-soft, stretchy-skinned belly makes funny “faces” at my kids and sends them in to giggle fits. I have a little belly pooch, I like to think looks womanly. Too bad my middle is still about as wide as my hips, which I never did really grow any during my 5 pregnancies.
Came across a wonderful website this morning, The Shape of a Mother. A website almost any mother who has experienced the body-morphing effects of pregnacy could identify with…


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im sorry for your loss, your dd was a beauty. loss my dd maryonna 12/17/06 thanks for sharing your story.