A Cita Life

Today for this post I am talking to the mommies to be and the recent new mommies. All I have heard since the birth of my first son was “I know you can't wait to have your baby so you can get your body back”. And two years later it is still the same thing, “I know you can't want to have your body and to get a snap back.” How can I worry about what my body looks like at a time like this?!?! Your focus should be on the baby. Not about when you're going to get back into the gym to get back the figure you had pre baby. You should take the time to enjoy this gift that you received the joy of a new life that you created. My advice to the new mommies out there is to enjoy this time with your new baby. Enjoy bonding with your baby, enjoy getting to know your baby, just enjoy your baby, just enjoy being a mommy, enjoy and relish in the fact that your body just gave birth to a new life. Don't just rush back into the gym until your six week check up and you are cleared by y...

I am tired of dealing with people that have silly/small mindsets and treat pregnancy as a disease or a “plot/ploy” There is nothing to laugh at about the female reproductive system and body. Just because someone experiences the joy of an enjoyable experience and a baby is made as a result of that. It's sad to think someone would take something so beautiful as creation of a new life and make it so negative. There is no room to judge anyone's situation because you may never know that persons situation. It could be someone struggled with the fact of getting pregnant, or became pregnant and was unable to keep it. Being pregnant is no laughing matter or anything to take lightly because you are growing a human being. I don't like the fact that people can think that they can say whatever they want to a pregnant woman or judge a pregnant woman. That is not right or fair. It's like you're punishing this woman for deciding to carry a new life. No one should be subject to ridi...