#iheartmybody

sara from Tis The Life posted this on her blog this morning.

i loved it! i'm all for women learning to love their body, and appreciate it for all it can do.

sara looks smokin' by the way - popped out the gorgeous worm 14 weeks ago. 14 weeks! wow! no way did i look like that after either bubble or bug were 14 weeks old! you go sara!

so here is my post.....taken with my iMac's photo booth, so excuse the crappy quality!

i'm 30 weeks pregnant with baby #3 (lbm3 as i like to call it) today. 10 weeks left.

i see myself side-on in some photos and think 'wow. i'm freakin' huge!!!' which i guess is to be expected at the pointy end of the pregnancy!

my boobs are big, and i'm well aware they're only going to get bigger. not really looking forward to that, nor am i all the excited about how they're gonna be once lbm3 finishes breast feeding. but we'll worry about that later.

my body is amazing. it grew 2 little people inside it, popped them out pretty much on it's own and then continued to nurture them for 8 months. (yes i only breastfed till the girls were 8 months old. i'd had enough by then!)

it is now growing a third little person.

it takes a beating from me, and has done over the course of my life....
2 broken arms. same arm. i was in yr 1 when i first broke it and yr 2 the second time. my left arm now sorta bends a bit further than my right, and i can't touch my left shoulder with my left hand properly.
broken finger. my ring finger. it's wonky.
numerous falls from horses, one fall resulting in above-mentioned broken arm and another fall, many years later resulting in concussion (and all the side-effects from that).
cuts, scratches, bruises. quite a few scars from those.
tried to slice my hand open with a saw in wood work in yr 9. didn't succeed. which is probably a good thing.

if the list above were called 'involuntary' beatings then there are the 'voluntary' beatings it's taken. such as ingesting a rather large amount of alcohol at an extraordinarily fast pace. and smoking cigarettes. and getting tattoos. that's about the extent of my 'wildness'....and i'm quite thankful it ended there!

with the pregnancies i have gotten stretch marks, horrible morning/evening sickness, wonderful aversions to foods, and this time around the most amazing spider/varicose veins up my legs. that i'm pretty bummed about, as i used to think i had amazing legs. now i don't want to show them off at all. :(

but still, my legs carry me and my tummy around all day. my legs allow me to do my gym classes, go on walks with my girls and ride our bikes as a family.

i am not as toned as i'd like to be, however i am honestly looking forward to learning how to juggle three children, a husband and life in general once baby comes. it's gonna be fun!

so at the moment, i honestly can say i truly-ruly heart my body. i need to reward it and appreciate it more by fuelling it with the correct foods, not chocolate.

compared to the teenager in high school, i am more comfortable with my body now than then. i am well aware of what it can do, what it has done, and what i will be pushing it to do in the future - both giving birth and then getting back in shape.

bubble + i