{"id":1306077,"date":"2019-03-19T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804078"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:54:46","slug":"carrie-underwoods-post-baby-reality-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/carrie-underwoods-post-baby-reality-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood\u2019s Post-Baby Reality, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 13m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

After I had each of my three babies, I vowed to never pick up a magazine with any news of \u201cgetting your body back.\u201d Why? Because I was pretty damn busy being a mother. My body was the last thing on my mind.<\/p>\n

So I am currently crying tears of joy over Carrie Underwood<\/a>\u2019s latest Instagram post. The one where she is 100 percent honest about being hard on herself over the bouncing back.<\/p>\n

With this 229-word post, she says everything that every mother needs to hear. And she does it in a way that gives mothers \u2014 new and old \u2014 the kind of permission they need to just focus on the baby. And if it\u2019s the second, third, or tenth baby, to focus on the juggling of everything that comes with life with little ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be honest, \u2019bouncing back\u2019 after having Jacob has been much more difficult than after I had Isaiah and I\u2019ve been pretty hard on myself lately,\u201d Underwood wrote about her eight-week-old infant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go into the gym and I can\u2019t run as fast or as far. I can\u2019t lift as much weight or do as many reps as I could a year ago. I just want to feel like myself again,\u201d she adds, \u201cfor my body to feel the way that I know it can. As I was working out today, I realized that for the past 11(ish) months, my body has not belonged to me. It was a perfect home for Jacob. And even now it belongs to him every time he drinks his milk.\u201d<\/p>\n

What a fresh perspective that is. That it\u2019s not just a mother\u2019s heart that belongs to the new baby, but her whole physical self. I wish I\u2019d been thinking like that 24 years ago when my first daughter was born. Jacob Bryan was born on Jan. 21, right before his big brother Isaiah turned four.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I prepare for red carpets and for life on tour, right now I make a promise to myself to start appreciating what my body CAN do and stop focusing on what it can\u2019t,\u201d she says of her new outlook. (In fact, let\u2019s consider today \u2014 March 19 \u2014 the day that Underwood\u2019s liberating honesty was born.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI promise to stop analyzing every angle and every curve and every pound and every meal.\u201d<\/p>\n

She ended the post by saying that she\u2019s going to stay the path, and that one day she will reach her goals. But it will not happen over night. It\u2019s a journey, not a race. \u201cI\u2019m going to take it day by day, smile at the girl in the mirror, and work out because I love this body and all it has done and will continue to do!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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