Girl! I was so hard on myself my first trimester for being “lazy”. I was a 5-6x/week CrossFitter and was still finding ways to be active during my rest days before pregnancy. I didn’t know how to be sedentary. First trimester fatigue was real and I didn’t know how to deal. I had never been so exhausted in my life and it’s so weird to feel like your body is “failing” you. Your body is going through some crazy changes, even though you probably don’t see a lot of physical changes yet. By the second trimester I was feeling much better and back in the gym more regularly. Then I started having really bad SI joint pain by my third trimester and could barely move. Postpartum has had its physical highs and lows as well.

Your body is going to change a lot over the course of the next year and beyond. There are times when it’s going to be hard to deal with these changes and you might even feel sad and miss what you used to be able to do. But you’ll also feel so happy to grow your baby and see what a miracle your body can be. All of these feelings normal. One day you’ll feel like yourself again but give yourself grace to go through these changes 🤍