“It happened.”
A mum-of-three has told of the awkward moment a stranger asked her the “three words that every woman dreads when she is not pregnant.”
Laura Mazza penned a post about the instance when the woman asked her ‘so, when are you due?’ – five weeks after she had actually given birth.
The Aussie mum recalled the encounter in a light-hearted Facebook post, alongside a photo of her lifting up her shirt and holding a sign that read: “5 weeks postpartum with a burger baby.”
The blogger, who runs Mum on the Run, said:
“It happened. I got asked the three words that every woman dreads when she is not pregnant (well four words).
“‘So when are you due?’
“Not due for my period, not due for a poo,not due for the promotion… when am I due to have my baby?
“That’s what she meant. (My husband said maybe she meant something else, worried I’d be upset… no that’s what she meant).
“I wanted to say, well actually I had him a month ago, but instead I said ‘October!’ Because I’m an idiot and didn’t want her to feel bad.”
Mazza explained that she wasn’t upset, embarrassed and didn’t feel bad about the woman’s accidental comment – and she couldn’t understand why some people felt she should be.
She added:
“I still look pregnant, and really, why the f*ck wouldn’t I? I keep having babies two years apart.
“I’ve grown their bones, their eyes, their little noses and toes and I’ve created their little beautiful hearts.
“My organs squished down to allow them to grow and my muscles separated to let them grow bigger.
“I birthed them from my lady garden and my sun roof and I fed them from my body. I stayed up all night feeding them.
“I am watching them grow and nurturing them and looking after them from a place of pure exhaustion.
“A place where I open the door to the postman and my right boob (I call it my Power Tit) is hanging out, my hair matted because I haven’t had time to brush it and wearing maternity leggings…but I look at them, the little things I’ve created and think they’re beautiful, truly beautiful amazing little things. “
The mum-of-three added that a friend of hers had recently told her she was upset she “still had her mum body” three months after welcoming her little one.
Mazza urged mums to embrace their body, however they look – reminding them: “it’s done something wonderful, it’s made life.”
She ended the post by saying:
“I mean why do I, or she have to worry about hiding the evidence of all that we have achieved? All that we have made? Why should we feel bad? Why should anyone?
“On our death beds, are we going to be talking about how we looked after giving birth, or are we going to be talking about the people we gave birth to?
“So if you’re still looking pregnant, if you’ve been mistaken for being pregnant, if you got this delicious overhang like me… embrace it!
“It’s okay to want to change your body but don’t spend one more second hating it in the interim, it’s done something wonderful, it’s made life.”
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