Operation: Postpartum sanity

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Friends, if you've had a baby or going to have a baby or even seen a mother in the grocery store with a tiny baby who's about to lose her MIND, you know it's not easy to have a baby. Especially after the fact. You've spent so much time planning for said child that it's easy to forget about yourself. I've been trying to implement a little sanity into my postpartum-ness with the birth of my second and wanted to share some of it with you. Hopefully, this will evolve into something regular, but we'll see. I've got a baby, you know.

My first postpartum tip has to do with weight loss, or in my case, the lack thereof. Weight loss with the firstborn was, dare I say it.....easy. This one? Not so much. Weight has made itself comfortable. Weight has been around awhile. Weight is not going anywhere without a fight.

However, I don't want to wear maternity stuff and my nursing clothes (upcoming post planned on what kind of clothes are nursing clothes) forever, so what kind of clothes can I really invest in as a stay-at-home mom or weekend warrior mom that don't feel so temporary?

Listen up, friends.

Workout clothes.

What? Yes! They have stretch, are very forgiving (yoga pants), go well with no make-up and a ponytail, and guess what? You can actually WORKOUT in them!

And.... I'll admit it, this has been my mommy trick of yore. Whenever I have rolled out of bed, late to the preschool drop-off line, it's not a tee-shirt and running pants kind of look I go for. It's a "I'm just about to dash to pilates" or a "I go to the gym so often they don't even check my membership anymore" kind of look. Maybe I'll make it to the gym. Maybe not. But the point? You will THINK I've already been to the gym (depending on how rough a night it was) or I'm on my way there.

And maybe, just maybe, I'll make it there someday.