It was also refreshing to hear that I am not the only person who feels pressure to have a baby because everyone else around me is. I was just waiting to get a comment from someone yesterday that only half read the post and thought I was trying to tell the world that I was pregnant. But… thankfully it never came.
If you knew me in real life – like the 3D version of Mrs. Bear – you would know that I am 100% not ready to have a baby. You would also know that I am not easily peer pressured into doing things that I don’t want to do. So to anyone telling me I should have a baby – you are wasting your breath.
The Pressure to Have a Baby from Others is Outweighed by So Many Different Factors
Belly button ring scar plus weird looking pregnant belly. NOT attractive…totally scary…totally unappealing.
With that being said… having a baby is going to royally mess up my belly button and my stomach – And I just can’t handle that right now. I work out way too hard to have my stomach all stretched out and then to maybe even have my belly button pop out. AHH THE HORROR!
Call me vain… call me a diva… I don’t care. It is a valid excuse as to why I don’t want to have kids right now and it keeps the peeps off my back who are sometimes literally breathing down my back and wondering why I do not want a baby!
Thanks blog friends for the discussion yesterday. It was fun. Let’s try it again sometime =0) HAPPY MONDAY!
🙂 Love it!
you are not vain one bit and all depending how you take care of yourself will depend on if you end up ROYALLY messed up! i was just like you and thought i’d be bigger after baby because well i thought that’s just how things worked. but i wore my pre-pregnancy jeans my whole pregnancy and have to add when i was prego my tummy was big but not huge and now a year later my tummy is flatter than it was pre-baby and my belly button stayed the same the entire time i was prego and is the same now 😉 that being said, my boobies are a bit different, haha! i think it all depends on how you take care of yourself before getting pregnant, during pregnancy and then after. i know its different for everyone but i have a positive story with my before, during and after so wanted to share with you 🙂 but all the power to you sweets, no one should ever feel pressure to do anything they don’t want to or are not ready to do. i hope all is wonderful, i’ve been out of the blogging loop for a while.
I’m glad you wrote this! I completely agree! I don’t ever voice it, but having a baby TERRIFIES me in the stomach dept. My fiance spends hours and hours at the gym, and I’m naturally thin (but not naturally tone), so I already feel like I’m at a disadvantage when it comes to the banging body. I’m worried that I’ll end up with saggy skin & saggy boobs – and I know that’s not attractive when there are a ton of college kids that work out at the same gym that my fiance and I do. I don’t want him looking at another girl & wishing I looked like her (not that he would, but you know, that’s how this girl’s head works)!
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