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The Bathing Suits

How we went to the beach after giving birth.

By Stacy Mintzer Herlihy

Ohhhhhhh, thankyouthankyouthankyou!

My baby was born in January. I wore my maternity tankini most of the summer until I realized that usually the only people who saw me in my bathing suit were either at the birth or were my dad. That was the point I switched back to bikinis. Not that I 'should' have been wearing them before - always had a little belly pooch, but tough cookies, I'm over 30.

My REALLY tough day was in August, when a old lady in a restaurant asked with raised eyebrows on finding that my daughter was 7 months old "already starting on the next one??" And, I had been back at pre-preggo weight for 4 months (Let's hear it for heartily breastfeeeding babies!) I never had much in the way of body image issues before baby, but that lady did a great job of kicking them off (she wasn't quite mortified enough when I told her No, that's just leftover baby belly.)

So, thank you.

Thank you for being the woman I have aspired to be. The woman who truly could give a rats backside what anyone else thinks about how you look to them.

I will now officially take my string bikini out of the proverbial (but non-existent and nasty toxic) mothballs in eager waiting for next summer.

And God/dess help the foolish person who dares to make a crack about my belly...

Posted by: Anne | Oct 11, 2006 09:24

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