Do they even make girdles anymore?

Many people may not know this, but a woman’s belly does not snap back into svelte perfection overnight after childbirth. Heh heh.

No matter how slender Mom used to be, nine months of expansion will not go away in nine hours.

Just sayin’.

Of course, there could be exceptions.

Enter: mother-in-law

Young couples are all about weddings. It’s a thing of being in the age bracket for it, and everyone getting married at a certain, somewhat expected age. Like right after high school or college.

That is how it came about that I was invited to attend a wedding five days after our first child was born. I wasn’t even supposed to travel long distances, yet, but my husband was the best man, and my doctor said if we stopped every hour along the way to let me get out and walk around for 15 minutes, I could go.

I don’t know if we did that or not. I cannot remember. I’d had so much anesthesia, I was still kinda of stupefied. During childbirth, I had been prepped for a life-saving Caesarean. I was so weak and so new to everything, I had little awareness of what I was doing, let alone what anyone else was.

That’s how I let THE most important woman in my husband’s life 😉 talk me into wearing my first-ever girdle.

And my last.

My baby bump

I was still rather bumpy down there. I’d only gained 18 pounds during gestation and had come near losing most of it already, but my poor, youthful, trim, athletic abs were kaput.

I managed to slip into a cute dress for the occasion, but wow — it would barely zip! I was so shocked. I felt SO much thinner than just days before, but reality was beginning to rear its ugly head. I knew not what to do.

That’s when his mommy pulled out one of her body-shaping secrets and explained to me what it was and why I needed one.

It was FAR more difficult to slip into than the dress had been! But you know what? That dress zipped up in a jiffy afterward, and even I could tell the difference: I looked lots better, I must admit — better than I felt, for sure.

Nowadays

That was 53 years ago. How can it be!

Ha! Do they even make girdles anymore? Idk. I could use one, though, after six kiddos and two recent abdominal surgeries, plus all the restfulness needed to recuperate and you can imagine how far I’ve faded into aged slumpiness. Regaining strength every day, at my age, although a very good thing, is not the same as a girdle.

CURVY-FAJA ❤