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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow - OP is reallly going to F up her kid at this rate. At least she has a son, not a daughter. [/quote]

WHo will one day be hounding YOUR daughter about how fat she is post baby.  Please, it's not any better that she has a boy.[/quote]

Two months after giving birth to my fourth child, I took the kids to the swimming pool and I made the unfortunate mistake of getting into a swimsuit in public.  A nasty stick figure mom with tanned leather skin and white bottle blond hair decided that was the time to "educate" her son on why we don't eat junk food.  I heard the entire conversation, the mom thought that only her son could hear her.  It was so upsetting and I will never forget the nasty things she said about me.  I was maybe 20lbs over my healthy weight.  But my thights jiggled and I had a belly bulge.  The little boy asked his mom why I was so fat and why I was wearing a swimsuit.[/quote]

That is so sad. It's going to be hard to grow up to be a kind human being with a parent like that.

I am impressed that you were at the swimming pool two months postpartum, with four kids! Heck, my second is 6 months and I still am often too lazy to get to the pool. The changing, the sunscreen application, the fact that whenever we are at the pool my infant chooses to poop in her swim diaper-- and again in her new swim diaper-- and then again in her regular diaper, and then I have no diapers left and we have to go home...but this story does kind of remind me of how my (brown-skinned, FWIW) 3 yr old asked me about one of the other, perpetually tanning (white) moms at the pool: "Why is her skin so BROWN?" I did not, within earshot of the other woman, describe the dangers of tanning and cancer and so forth to my daughter. I conveyed my embarrassment because it is not kind to comment on the personal appearance of others, esp. not in a "that's freakish" tone of voice.[/quote]

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