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What You Look Like After Triplets

Posted by JeanneSager

This mom is BRAVE. And totally awesome. 

A mom allowed herself to be photographed throughout the weeks of her pregnancy with triplets. Then she jumped forward to three months after delivery and struck the same pose - shirt pulled up to just below the boobs and everything hanging out. 

Wow. The stretch marks are scary, but honestly, they're what to be expected for normal women who get stretchmarks (because, I'm sorry, but I have some intense loathing going on for you "Oh, I didn't get a mark" women - I fart in your general direction) and one carrying three babies at that. But look at that tummy tone! Go mama!

I love these kinds of pictures, honestly, because they remind me that my tummy will never be toned again . . . and that's OK. I don't need to look like Angelina, and my husband doesn't think I need to look like Angelina. 

Because the picture at the very end of the long series of triplet pics says it all - it's the three "sweet peas" (her words) she got out of it all. Yeah, totally worth it. 

Click here to see the entire series. 

Image: ShapeofaMother

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Posted Mar 27 2009, 04:01 PM
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Comments

 

Manjari said:

"I fart in your general direction"

Hahahahahahahaha! That's one I haven't heard before.

March 27, 2009 4:03 PM
 

Kris said:

The pix seem to have been removed.

March 27, 2009 4:31 PM
 

Porkchopz said:

Here she is:

theshapeofamother.com/.../triplet-belly

March 27, 2009 4:52 PM
 

JeanneSager said:

Ooh - thanks Porkchopz; not sure what happened there.

And Manjari, wish I could take credit for it - it's Monty Python Holy Grail -sooooo worth watching.

March 27, 2009 4:57 PM
 

Porkchopz said:

Um, wow.

If her belly isn't amazing enough, her life with the triplets is something else altogether. I've been mesmerized by her blog for the past 20 min:

sualkin.livejournal.com

March 27, 2009 5:08 PM
 

Voice of Reason said:

She gave birth at home to triplets - I am in awe. This is one confident mama and I applaud her!

Sadly, 'I fart in your general direction' is an expression in frequent use at my house. We are not very mature, but we do have a lot of fun!

March 27, 2009 7:20 PM
 

Manjari said:

I saw that movie a long time ago, but I guess I didn't remember that line.

Yeah, that mom is amazing.

March 27, 2009 7:38 PM
 

carissa said:

"We are not very mature, but we do have a lot of fun!"  LOL, cheers to your awareness.

Is she nursing the triplets?  Then we can also imagine the toll that will take on the breasts.  The stomach will get better, maybe never back to normal, but the boobs only go down.

http://www.bratiquehelene.com

March 27, 2009 8:50 PM
 

Knitty said:

Thanks for the link, Porkchopz.  Her story is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read, but she doesn't seem to possess an ounce of self-pity.  Her daughter, one of the triplets... oh, my God.  From one of her websites: "Lily has very severe global brain damage, is cortically blind, quad mixed cerebral palsy, non-ambulatory, non-verbal, has epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, GERD, and is 100% GJ tubefed."

March 28, 2009 1:34 AM
 

Twyla said:

I will admit that phrase has been long used at my house. Sometimes acted out. I didn't know where it came from though.

I applaud this woman's bravery. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see a mom's body viewed as a thing of beauty, a vessel to bring forth life? I have stretch marks from my hips all the way up to my breasts and no triplets. I have shown a few select people who don't believe me and they make a noise of sympathy. Kinda sad really.

March 28, 2009 11:31 PM
 

stcelia said:

It would be wonderful if we could see our bodies as amazing things of beauty and function.  How incredible that women can bring forth life, (one or three!).  It's insane to think that we would be exactly the same afterward.

March 29, 2009 12:38 AM

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Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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