Remember how I said I lost 30 pounds in a week after Daegan was born???

I thought you all might like to see how that happened...

This is me 4 days before Daegan was born....August 18th...


This is me the day AFTER he was born...August 23rd...


This is me a little over a week after he was born....Sept 1st...



I saw a friend yesterday that I hadn't seen since I was in the hospital....she said, "Don't take this the wrong way, but you look really different. I almost wouldn't recognize you." Meaning, I was fat...but not really fat....swollen. Very very swollen....I have new stretch marks...non-pregnant ones that came from the swelling...after the surgery, when I was stuck in the hospital bed, all the edema went to my ass and hips...making them very wide...I had to use the bigger wheelchair...and couldn't sit in a regular chair I got soo wide...which I'm sure looked quite silly on my frame. I guess that's what an acute drop in albumin and protein combined with IV fluids will do to you.

I'm only 20 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight now. Granted that's still 15 pounds over where I'd like to be....but I've got time.