Washable Wednesday: Jersey Jacquard Dress

So… speaking of being depressed about postpartum physical changes, I’m hoping y’all can either cheer me up or blatantly lie to me to make me feel better. I’ll take either.

Overall, I feel pretty good about how I look at about 2 months postpartum. I’ve lost the weight, that girdle thing was really helpful, and I’m mostly back in my normal clothes. However. My boobs look so so bad. I’m in the process of transitioning from nursing to formula, and so they have lost most of their nursing fullness and just look sadly deflated and have a ton of tiny stretch marks on the top which make them look WRINKLED! I’m 30 but I look like I have elderly lady boobs! My chest has always been large and fairly nice looking, if I do say so myself. But now I’m just sad. Is there anything that will help? Will they look better at some point? I have some stri-vectin, but I didn’t want to use it til I finish nursing. Is this a “you’re stuck with it unless you want to go under the knife” someday thing?

That said, does anyone know how much a boob lift costs?

Not to threadjack the comment above, my daughter is up for her 15 month appointment on Friday and I’m trying to decide whether to request a hearing evaluation. She has always been on the early end of gross motor skills–walking at 9 months and doing sommersaults by 13 months. She can follow multistep directions such as “Do you want to give your baby a bottle in your rocking chair?” (She gets baby from stroller, digs bottle out of toy bin, climbs into rocking chair and pretends to give baby bottle while rocking.) She seems to understand most of what we say. That said, she is really quiet. She occasionally babbles, but doesn’t have any solid words. We suspect she says dadadada sometimes to mean daddy, but it’s inconsistent at best. She didn’t make a “ma” sound until 13 months and dropped it again a few weeks later. She has one solid sign, “all done,” that she uses effectively in a variety of situations. But she hasn’t picked up any others despite our months of attempts. She does point all the time with purpose and will waive bye bye.

Could this be a hearing thing even though she understands us? She hasn’t had an ear infection ever.

We went for a 9 month checkup yesterday and the doctor was concerned that my 9 month old isn’t pulling herself up to standing. He suggested getting an evaluation for early intervention. Has anyone done something like that? Any info or anecdotes on what to expect? And does anyone have a suggestion for a place in NYC that does it?