Melissa Gatt, better known as @theislandmumma on Instagram, is sharing her thoughts on being comfortable in her own skin during her second pregnancy. Melissa is currently pregnant with twins (a boy and a girl) and talks being more comfortable now than in her first pregnancy, knowing what to expect.
“With every passing day, I am becoming bigger. Bigger than I have ever been. Bigger than I ever thought I would become! These two are gaining weight incredibly fast, and so am I. I am now retaining a LOT of water weight, and I am out of breath most of the time,” she shares on her @theislandmumma Instagram account.
“My stomach is too heavy to sleep on either side, and it takes me forever to fall asleep. I stopped exercising about 6 weeks ago, because I felt faint every time I would get my heart rate up (that counts for walking as well!),” she shared, getting real with the struggles of being pregnant with twins.
However, Melissa does share that she feels an element of comfort with it all. “With all of these changes my body has been going through, I feel strangely comfortable with it all. When I was pregnant with Savannah, I felt anxious about my weight gain, and I felt really crappy about myself... but this time around, I know what to expect post partum, and I have realized just HOW AMAZING our bodies actually are! The fact that your body can grow one baby (or two, or three... or even eight!) is beyond me! I am sooo incredibly fortunate to go through this experience, and I feel very blessed. I am trying to not be hard on myself, even though I am not feeling like myself AT ALL!” she admits.
“I am however REALLY looking forward to getting the “old Melissa” back, and to feel somewhat normal again, and that’s okay! It’s totally okay not to LOVE being pregnant, even though you feel blessed and very fortunate. I don’t LOVE being pregnant, but I am embracing it even more this time, as it’s my last pregnancy,” she shares. “To all you mama’s - I take my hat off to you.”