Watching 10 Years Younger last night (although I missed the end cos the baby woke up!), a 38-year old mother was transformed into what Nicky Hambleton-Jones termed a 'yummy mummy'. This term is bandied about a lot these days and serves to put more pressure on us mum's struggling to even get dressed in the morning, let alone look 'yummy'.
Trying to find a top that will enable me to breastfeed successfully has been the sole aim of my dresscode over the past 6 months. I either end up flashing my whole boob or else showing the world the one area of my body that I would rather not even see myself - my tummy. Whilst never particularly flat, carrying one 10lb 10oz baby and a second smaller, but still not small 8lb 7oz 'er, has definitely taken its toll. I have luckily lost most of the baby weight, but can be assured that my tummy will forever look like a deflated balloon and is certainly not 'yummy'.
Secondly, surviving on 4-5 hours sleep a night and then spending the next day chasing after a toddler and being puked up on by a baby are also not recipes for 'yumminess'.
Today is not a good day for this 'tummy mummy', although I seem to remember that 'yumminess' gets slightly easier as babies grow older!
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