ok so how many of you with 2 or more children would wear a bikini?

[bossykate]

i have two and i think my bikini days are over. it's not my weight/body shape it's that crepey post baby belly thing. tbh, i would have thought that most people wouldn't want to expose their tums after having had a couple or more kids.

or is it just me

ooh no

I hate bikinis and have loads of stretch marks grrrrr

I have 3 kids and have just brought a bikini for my holiday to menorca. Have wore one since I was 17, but am slim and have no stretchmarks so I am braving it this year.

haven't wore one sine I was 17

I am the same as Spidermama - there are a hell of a lot more frightening sights out there than me in a bikini. I may not be as pretty in it as I could be, but I really don't care.

Oh, and hoping the norks draw the eye from my stomach anyway

Only 2 babies....

I haven't worn one since I was a wee girl. But then we don't go on foreign holidays so don't really have the need to wear one.

I wear them but only if in very hot pool/beach situation
I would not toddle around my own garden nor the town centre in one
I had to avoid them in my lithe and lean fit teens and 20's due to enormous bust never fitting into a standard top, however sicne hitting the dirty thirties, sized bikini tops have made it happen!

what are muffin tops?

Yeah I would abroad. I feel much more concious about it in this country, i.e when we take DD swimming.
Just find the bigges thing on the beach you can and stay with her at all times . You will feel great :)

I have two children and wear them on holiday. I am a size 10 and my stomach is my worst part but no stretch marks so not much difference when covered with a costume - it still bulges.

Would also wear on English beach. But not at swimming pool.

Bozza - I never wear one for the local swimming pool. Only abroad.

Nope, but then have never liked them much. Always been a bit of a one-piece fan.
Post 2 children, have escaped the stretch marks and the cellulite but definitely have a crepey stomach. If I bend forward, I have the stomach of a pensioner...

i just came back from a lovely holiday last week .. bought 3 new bikinis and wore them all :)
i've always worn bikinis

I wear them abroad - wouldn't at home.

I've got 3 kids but the stretch marks are the least of my worries - two vertical scars on my stomach pale the stretch marks in to insignificance. Come to think of it my belly is probably pretty offensive actually

is it bad form to wear them in swimming pools over here then?

i wouldnt think twice about doing so

i wear them when i go abroad, but in the uk i wear a cossy.

Yes Lou, i think it maybe is bad form to wear them in local pool for, say, a lane session. Outdoors in the sun at the lido would be okay I think.

And talking of crepe-iness... i glanced down on holiday and noticed the tops of my norkes look kinda empty... like the skin is now too big.

Why is it bad form? I wear bikinis to take my 3 kids to the local pool and so do a couple of my friends.

Bad form for serious swimming session - like ploughing up and down in lanes I mean.

that alright then as I am only a serious paddler and then only when my kids nag me enough to force me into the water!

I wear a bikini - its my saggy big arse thats the problem tbh

also too long in the body for a comfy swimsuit

I did last summer... I am just too tall for a one piece. Thank heavens for the Tankini this year because I am still not fit 3 1/2 month after DB4...

I am also as white as a ghost but how would that be any less offensive in a one piece costume?

Life is just too short to care about such things really.

St tropez covers up a multitude of sins

Yeah Enid - st tropez is my rescue remedy too.