Emily Skye has shared an honest photo of her post baby body.
Skye, 32, welcomed a baby girl into the world five days ago. She named her little girl Mia.
Posting on Instagram, the health and fitness expert said she barely recognised herself in the mirror.
“I’m far from a ‘glam mum’,” she began.
“I currently live in what you could call ‘granny undies’, it hurts to do much with the stitches from my episiotomy, and feeding is extremely painful – I had no idea it would be this bad!”
The new mum said her back was still really sore when she walked around and she felt like her insides were going to fall out.
Skye said her pregnancy was not what she thought it was going be and she admitted she had initially thought she would be back exercising in no time.
“I was sick a lot of the time and had back pain that made it hard to just walk around the house,” she wrote.
“I ended up gaining over 21kg during my pregnancy in fat, fluid, baby, placenta etc.”
While many people told her she would “bounce right back” after giving birth, that has definitely not been the case.
“It’s only five days after I gave birth to Mia and I look about six or so months pregnant,” she wrote.
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“I can tell I’m going to have a LOT of hard work ahead of me to get fit and strong again which I KNOW I can do but it’s not my priority right now – spending this time with my daughter is.
“Getting my ‘body back’ can take a back seat for the time being… I’ll get there in a realistic time frame and I refuse to put pressure on myself to get there.”
Skye finished off her post by saying how blessed she was to have baby Mia in her life.
“I look at her and start crying because of the overwhelming love I have for her and I love my body SO much for growing this precious little person.”
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“I had no idea it would be this bad!”
This is something I’m hearing a lot of lately among friends of mine who have recently had children. I think so many men and women these days are so unexposed to birth, breastfeeding and babies that when their time finally comes, it’s a lot harder than they thought it would be. I think we need to start sending the message that birth, breastfeeding and caring for babies is really different from every day life and while it’s not necessarily the hardest thing you could ever do, it’s a massive change that sort of hits you like a bus.
I honest feel like I only hear how bad it is. The articles, books, social media posts are really forced on the difficult part of it to the point where a lot of your people are scared of having children. I cannot understand how people can be that surprised.
I completely agree. It's ridiculous how uneducated people are when it comes to the process of pregnancy, birth and the post-natal period.
Hospitals really need to do a better job of sorting that situation out via ante-natal education - and that should be a last resort because frankly, people should have an idea about it all already.
I don’t know if it’s true for everyone but in my circle, maybe my friends are hearing how hard it can be but are not absorbing the message. I was very exposed to the process as my siblings all had children including multiples so it was all hands on deck for me from a young age so I saw them struggle through all sorts of things but somewhere the message is not being absorbed by some I think?