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[quote=Anonymous]Ok....I feel the need to provide some information here.

Your ribs are bone.  Your rib cage does not grow during pregnancy.

Everyone has the ability to expand or contract their ribcage, using a combination of moving your bones and muscles.

Most women have bad posture, especially when it comes to the rib cage.  We stand in a way to make ourselves looks better (ie- boobs out) and that contracts your ribcage.  When you get pregnant, your diaphragm moves upwards and forces your ribs to expand.  This is also why you may have felt out of breath at the end of your pregnancy- it is because you were actually taking in MORE air than you ever had before because you had an expanded rib area (same feeling you would have if you were hooked up to a pure oxygen tank).

When you were pregnant, your body got used to that posture.  Now that you are not pregnant, some people still keep that postural idea and it feels normal to have an expanded ribcage.  Some people go back....sometimes immediately and sometimes gradually.

So, right now you could collapse your ribcage and fit back into all those tops....if you knew where to move....

The one exception to this- if you still are carrying weight and some of it is hanging out around your ribs....well, then that fat has made you bigger in that area.

Ok....I am done now....

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