{"id":3229,"date":"2014-02-21T07:36:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T12:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2014-02-26T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T21:00:00","slug":"using-your-body-post-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/using-your-body-post-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Using your Body post-Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend I attended a dance competition and convention and while I\u2019ve been teaching regularly since before Doodle was born, I haven\u2019t been dancing full-out and though I was really dedicated to regular ballet classes while I was pregnant (see my journey of\u00a0\u201cDancing during Pregnancy\u201d<\/a>), I haven\u2019t taken a real class since before he was born.<\/p>\n

But I decided this weekend was my chance and instead of watching the class as all of the other teachers in attendance did, I jumped right in there.\u00a0 At 9 o\u2019clock in the morning I took on a contemporary class (which I haven\u2019t done since right after we moved to Dublin and I was pregnant with Sugarplum!) with a teacher I\u2019ve never known, never met, never seen.\u00a0 This kind of thing used to be the norm and no big deal, but it\u2019s been so long!<\/p>\n

To make it worse, I was side-by-side with my students and the pressure of their expectations made me even more nervous.\u00a0 I tried a \u201cjazz\u201d class at the convention I attended in November and that was a total disaster, it was not a style I was comfortable with and in a room of people \u00bd my age, I just couldn\u2019t keep up (luckily none of my own students were there to see my utter failure!)<\/p>\n

Turns out the contemporary class this weekend wasn\u2019t so bad.\u00a0 The style was great for my body and movement style, the teacher was relaxed and I did pretty well, even busting out a few decent double turns and was able to get up and down from the floor like a pro (which has never been easy for this taller lady!)<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the lesson here?\u00a0 The lesson is that having babies will forever change you in more ways than you can ever imagine but it\u2019s not always a negative thing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that pregnancy\u00a0 brings on huge body changes and that it takes time and patience to get back to your pre-pregnancy size but what isn\u2019t as widely discussed is that even when you\u2019re back to your pre-pregnancy size or shape or weight, your body will never be the same.\u00a0 The way it moves, the way it works, the way it feels will never be the same as before pregnancy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not always easy to jump back into things post-baby.\u00a0 Your body goes through a lot during pregnancy, birth and post-partum recovery.\u00a0 There is often apprehension about how your body is going to react.\u00a0 Will you be able to do it?\u00a0 Will you be able to keep up?\u00a0 Will you be able to meet your expectations?\u00a0 What about the expectations of others?\u00a0In my experience, though, it\u2019s never quite as bad as you expect it to be!\u00a0 Let your body lead the way and listen to its cues.\u00a0 Just accept that things will be different and take it easy to start until you get your footing.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect to be back where you were before pregnancy or even before baby.\u00a0 Accept where you are now and try to enjoy what that experience is like, knowing you now have another little person to be a part of your life journey, to eventually cheer you on and cuddle you when you\u2019re sore!<\/p>\n

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After Doodle<\/p>\n

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This past weekend I attended a dance competition and convention and while I\u2019ve been teaching regularly since before Doodle was born, I haven\u2019t been dancing full-out and though I was really dedicated to regular ballet classes while I was pregnant (see my journey of\u00a0\u201cDancing during Pregnancy\u201d), I haven\u2019t taken a real class since before he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,14,5],"tags":[39,22,23,65,64],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-ballerina-mama","category-mommy-time","tag-baby","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-mommy","tag-postpartum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}