# @paigeb on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COx8xjSN8uk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12510473-paigeb-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-05-12T16:58:50.000+00:00

## Caption

Here’s something I rarely talk about: postpartum body image. 
This week has marked a year since I started working out consistently after giving birth to Theodore. I didn’t start because I wanted to lose weight. I started because I wanted to love my body again. 

You see, I stopped loving my body after my stillbirth. That body had betrayed me and I went into my third pregnancy with a deep distrust of it. 

This past year has seen its fair share of exercising challenges. Gyms in San Francisco were closed, so I found  physique57’s online classes and did futurefitapp in my living room. And little by little, I got reacquainted with my body again. It started to feel stronger and very slowly, I began to trust it more. 

So here I am, a year later. Friends, I am no fitness influencer. I’m just a mom who lost a baby and needed to be reminded that it wasn’t my body’s fault. 

Strength grows in those little moments, in the squats I do next to my kitchen table and the runs I make after the kids go to sleep. Our bodies are strong, even when we have forgotten they are.

#stillbirth #pregnancyafterloss #rainbowbaby #fitness 
#strongmom #strongmomma #mamastrong

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rainbowbaby, strongmomma, strongmom, pregnancyafterloss, mamastrong, fitness, stillbirth

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