Three Month Post-Baby Body Update

Hi friends! (This post is going to be all over the place.  You’ve been warned )

It’s been awhile, eh?  I’m really awesome at blogging with a baby, apparently.  There has been a lot going on though.  After a hectic first few weeks we are getting settled here in South Carolina.  My poor Bailey buddy broke his leg the third night here.  Brian was in Virginia driving back with the rest of our stuff so I was in complete freak out mode.  All is well now but damn that was traumatizing!  Bailey is now the proud owner of a metal plate in his leg.  He is badass now!

Our house is, for the most part, unpacked (we won’t talk about the extra room over our garage that serves as our box storage room for now, haha).  Life feels pretty normal again  We had a wonderful Christmas as a family of four (can’t forget Mr. B!).

Audrey is unimpressed with the photo shoots.

The last time I posted, Audrey was six weeks old.  It is hard to believe that my little girl is now three months old!  Time truly does fly.  She is such a cute, happy baby with so many funny facial expressions.  My favorite is her smile, of course- though it’s tough to catch it on camera.  I most often catch her serious look-

Isn’t she cute?

I have so many thoughts and post topics swirling around in me head- I’m excited to get back into blogging So, let’s start with a three month post-baby body update.  In awesome news, we are finally done with thrush (I think)- no more excruciating pain while breastfeeding, hooray!  Breastfeeding is going well and Audrey is starting to chunk up- she is now almost double her birth weight at a whopping twelve pounds.  At her two month checkup she was in the 34th percentile for weight and 71st for height.  Given that she was such a peanut when she was born (weightwise at least!) and that we had trouble with her gaining at first, I’m really excited about her progress!

As for me, I was cleared for exercise at my six week appointment (hooray!).  However, with the move and all of that I was only able to get one sorry little treadmill run in before we left (it was a mile and it was pretty bad, haha). Now that we are settled I am getting into somewhat of a routine- I’m running around two  miles at a time and engaging in some fairly intense (for me at least) crossfit workouts in our garage (Brian is a strict trainer!)  When we’re in the garage working out Audrey usually chills in her bouncy seat with us-

Or she’ll hang out on the rings, whatever

I signed up for my first race post-baby- the Cooper River Bridge run 10k!  I’m really excited.  It’s on March 31st so I have around three months to get ready.  I’m going to loosely follow Hal Higdon’s 10k novice plan- it calls for runs three times a week so I’ll be able to still complete crossfit workouts. I’m officially starting training next week.  I feel like I’m essentially starting over with running, since two miles is a great workout for me now.  It’s hard to believe I used to run 5-7 miles effortlessly without the blink of an eye!

More three month things:

• I’m officially back to my pre-pregnancy weight.  Yippee!  I got to my normal weight around 10 weeks postpartum.  I attribute it to breastfeeding and stress from the move and Bails breaking his leg.  My diet is fairly okay but I certainly am not eating as well as I was pre-pregnancy.
• I did in fact get some stretch marks from the pregnancy- none on my stomach or hips but instead on the underside of my chest.  I never noticed them because I don’t really make a habit of inspecting the girls.  There are three or four little pink lines.  Makes sense since they grew a lot!
• The linea negra (line going down my stomach) is fading quickly.
• I am back in my pre-pregnancy clothes and jeans!  The jeans sit a little lower I think but I’m stoked- I don’t need to buy a new wardrobe!
• I still have an inch or two around my waist to get back to normal.  Also, my stomach is still a bit “stretched out”, especially when I am sitting.  I don’t mind though because I am confident it will get back to where it was  The human body is amazing!

Six weeks postpartum on the left, three months postpartum on the right.

Six weeks postpartum on the left, three months postpartum on the right.

As you can see, there isn’t really too significant of a difference.  I can see a slight one though, haha.  My goals are to get back into running shape so that running 5 miles is effortless, become strong enough to do a pullup…all sorts of things!  I suppose I should put together a 2012 goals list.  Put that on the to-do!

Hopefully I will be getting back to a blogging schedule of two to three times a week with my crossfit and 10k training updates, Audrey updates and life in general posts.  I’m looking forward to actively commenting on your blogs too (I’m reading, it’s just hard to type while breastfeeding haha).

I hope you are doing well and, as always, thanks for reading!

Katie