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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Age is more likely to affect your body than pregnancy. If you’re concerned, start exercising- it’s healthy for your heart anyhow. [/quote]

That’s the best way to look at it in my opinion. everyone loses their looks but at least you have kids! [/quote]

Exactly - you're going to "lose" your body anyway. Nobody can tell which 70 year olds had a kid and which didn't. I mean, look at 40 and 50 year old nuns - they've never had kids, and their bodies are basically mom bodies. So would you rather be a 70 year old with kids or a 70 year old with no kids, and the exact same body?

Plus yes, "losing your body" is the wrong way to look at it. It's not like your body at 25 is "your body" and everything after that is somehow not your body.[/quote]

AMEN to this.

I am also petite and slender... had two kids... gained a healthy amount of weight (about 30 lbs) and stayed healthy throughout my pregnancies... lost the weight easily while breastfeeding both kids... but, honey, let me tell you... my body is NOT the same.  It is so much stronger and fitter and healthier now in my 40s than I ever was in my 20s and 30s.  Yes, my boobs are saggier and my ribs are wider and I have some extra skin around my stomach - but my body is a miracle now.  It has supported life and been through childbirth and fed two amazing kids.  I am also so much more committed to living a healthy lifestyle as a mom - I have little people watching now.  So I drink less and make healthy, whole foods-based eating decisions, and I run and walk and hike... and truthfully my body is way better (even if way different) than it was before I had kids.[/quote]

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