My butt flattened like a pancake during pregnancy. I’m 9mo pp and 5 months into my very consistent strength training routine. I’ve seen great gains posterior wise and it’s no longer flat as it was, but my butt is soooo square still.
I hit Lower body 2x per week and have a dedicated glute day.
Any advice is much appreciated
I’m currently postpartum and on mat leave with my first baby. I have an incredible career that I have worked extremely hard to get to the position I’m in. I make great money.
My husband does well financially too and we could afford for me to stay home. But I’ve never wanted to. I have always believed in financial independence, using your brain outside of the home etc
But I swear I have an identity shift daily. I have days where I look forward to going back and days that I have a full blown panic attack at the thought of it. I worry about losing my financial independence, having a power dynamic change in my marriage, being solely focused on the home and family and then when I’m an empty nester I have some sort of crisis. But I also worry about the other side of things. Living a life of extreme stress and one where I feel like I’m just getting through my weeks, giving up control of who takes care of my children, having another pregnancy where I’m burning out at work and so on.
Are there any SAHMs on here that never thought they’d make the switch? How do you feel on the other side of it. What are somethings that surprised you? What did you wish you knew before you made the call.
Again, tomorrow I’ll probably be looking forward to going back but this flip flopping is really sending me down a major mental crisis.
EDIt: another thing that scares me is what if down the road my marriage doesn’t work out. We’re very happy and I don’t foresee this but I also understand anything can happen. I don’t want to be left high and dry and struggling to get back into the labour market if that happens. I also don’t want to live my life in a state of extreme stress because of a “what if”.
I had a really crazy issue when pregnant that no imaging or doctor could diagnose. Specialist after specialist, I never got answers.
Around 16 weeks, I started getting an incredibly debilitating pain in my side at the bottom of my ribs whenever I would stand. I didn’t have to be walking to make it start and all I had to do was sit down to make it stop. If I pushed through because I had to get something done, the pain would take longer to subside once I sat down. It was so excruciating that I thought I had a kidney stone.
When I was about 34 weeks, the pain slowly stopped and I was able to stand no problem. But for the 18 weeks it existed I was essentially completely disabled.
My baby is 8mo old now and it came back for about a week on and off a month ago but not severe then it went away.
I’m terrified to get pregnant again with no plan or diagnosis. I can’t be disabled this time around with a toddler.
I saw physiatrists, nephrologist, osteopath, chiropractors; GI docs, etc.
Has anyone in the world experienced this????? Or am I truly having a unique experience for the first time.
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