Have you 'Let yourself go?'

[PregnantGrrrl]

It dawned on me this morning that i really have. DS is coming up for 9mths, i'm pregnant and started back to work Monday.

My bikini line looks like a lawnmower would do the trick (how did that happen?!) my legs are stubbly, i can't recall the last time i straightened my hair...

I could do with a soak tonight i think (and a shave!)

budgie.... I could have written that post... you are so right.

Pregnantgirl.. don't be so hard on yourself... you have a 9month old and are pregnant! I looked like a bloody bag lady most of the time my DDs were little. I look back at photos of me and can't believe I actually went out looking like that... fat, bad perm (don't ask why I had my hair permed...it was the fashion!)... I honestly looked like Worzel Gummidge's sister!

Now my DDs are teens... I go shopping with them, exercise, buy clothes all the time, have lost weight BUT I have time - you probably don't... except when your LO naps. When mine napped I didn't shave my legs - I just ate biscuits till they woke Your time will come... as Budgie has said its just 'time out'.

I have a double life. When I'm looking after the kids full time I shamble along with no make up and comfortable clothes and shoes.

When I'm working I spruce up with make up, heels and nice clothes.

My dh and I are freelance so we always have one workng while the other looks after the kids. The latter is so much more difficult, as you all know, and I am literally running from one job to the next with no time or indeed inclination to put on mascara.

I let myself go when I was in your shoes, pregnant with a 8 month old. I was just so knackered all the time and feeling sick I didn't have time for the niceties. Don't worry about it, winter is coming back so no bare legs for a while yet.

BTW I'll only just getting it back together now and DD is 5 months. I bought my first make up in nearly 3 years the other day. (And some new non maternity clothes and a new handbag )

yes.

hell yes, even.

I have let myself go so far that I don't know where I've gone

totally let myself go! the real me is hovering about somwhere all svelt, shiney and dewrinkled!

However i did get my legs&bikini waxed today and bought some excrutiatingly expensive antiwrinkle cream on ebay so feeling abit better tday!

Pregnantgrrl i got pg when dd1 was 8 months and it's so hard and tiring, dont be hard on yourself!

YOUR LUCKY TO THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE A BATH ON YOUR OWN, I GET THE COMPANY OF MY 2 DD'S.

well, having finely coiffed my nether-regions and shaved my legs, i feel marginally better. today i hope to wash my hair (woo-hoo!) and tackle the charming spot that is developing on my chin.

the 1st 12wks of pregnancy suck ass. Roll on 2nd trimester!

here's the thing

its like bashing your head against a brick wall

you will feel soooo much better when you emerge from your chrysalis with plucked eyebrows and a nice haircut and so forth