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Women going through childbirth might as well check their modesty at the door. Depending on how you handle your own labor experience, any number of medical professionals, friends, and family members may be privy to parts of your body that you yourself need a mirror and an awkward angle to see.Then, afterward, the cameras come out. The baby is cute and the husband is dressed and well-rested, but mom? Well, if your pictures look like mine, you look sweaty, pale, and exhausted.
According to the New York Post, some moms -- influenced by today's celebrity mom lifestyle -- are taking steps to look their best in their post-labor pictures. Some are even planning appointments around their due date, making sure that they have fresh manicures, pedicures, hairstyles, and even bikini waxes.
I'm not ashamed of my post-labor photos, but they definitely aren't pretty. What about you (or your wife/partner if you're a man) -- did you primp for labor, or was beauty the last thing on your mind?
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5-11-2008 @ 11:12AM
Meredith said...Beauty was the last thing from my mind.
Some of my most honest and favorite photos are the ones where I am just coming out of a morphine induced c-section haze. When I am holding my new child just letting it all sink in.
There was not one single ounce of makeup in my hospital bag. I didn't want the first days of my children's life focused on anything but them.
More power to you if that is your thing, but it most certainly wasn't mine!
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5-11-2008 @ 1:02PM
claire said...I had a manicure and pedicure the day before I went into labor. However that was it. I don't really wear make-up, so that wasn't a concern. And I think I wore my hair up in a pony tail for the last two months of my pregnancy. I do like, though, that in my exhausted, exhilarated post-delivery pictures, you can see just how good my nails look. (It also amused me to notice my shiny red toenails as I pushed.)
Also, per after baby, a dear friend of mine had given me a little Bath&Body Works set in my favorite scent and a box of Godiva chocolate to take to the hospital. The chocolate never made it (um, duh), but it was both easy to pack and easy to use, and it was all the more refreshing to take that first post-delivery shower and smell so good.
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