Here's the thing: Shortly aft giving commencement to my son, I was anything but gracious to myself, particularly erstwhile it came to my appearance.

While I knew my body had done a miraculous thing, I was shocked (re: delusional) to see that I hadn't "bounced back" to my pre-pregnancy weight. Worst of all, I felt similar a alien successful my ain skin.

With breastfeeding, I felt much similar a beverage instrumentality than a human. Plus, it gave my boobs a weird in-between of looking similar bittersweet sandbags and Playboy exemplary material. My weight, which was changing connected a regular basis, mixed with my out-of-whack hormones, had turned maine into a large insecure mess.

So, buying for cute apparel wasn't precisely fun.

Aside from not adjacent knowing my size, I needed pieces that were breastfeeding-friendly, that could germinate with my assemblage and that would boost my confidence. Because the information is erstwhile I don't look my best, I don't feel my best.

That's wherefore it was a immense alleviation for maine erstwhile the Nap Dress checked each the boxes.

And it turns retired the trendy look was intentionally made with moms successful mind, Hill House founder Nell Diamond told E! News.

"As a caller mom, it was important to person covering I could consciousness presentable successful but besides comfortable," she explained of the design, which launched successful 2019. "The Nap Dress was decidedly calved retired of my aboriginal motherhood travel and trying to appease that."

Nell, who precocious dropped the autumn and outerwear collection, continued, "We truly wanted to make thing that worked for each mentation of you. Women aren't 1 circumstantial thing—our bodies fluctuate, our minds fluctuate—so, we wanted thing that moved with you arsenic opposed to thing that you're warring against."

The manner mogul enactment her design, specifically the smocking of the top, to the eventual trial erstwhile she became large with twins successful 2020.

"My twins were enormous. One of my twins weighed 7 lbs. astatine commencement and determination was a full different 1 successful there, truthful I was not tiny by immoderate means," she recalled. "The hostility of the smocking is truthful good, adjacent 2 years later, I inactive deterioration the aforesaid size I did then."

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And arsenic a miss aft my ain heart, Nell explained however her manner choices tin power her mood, which was different origin successful creating the Nap Dress. 

"The mode I formal and contiguous myself has a immense interaction connected my intelligence health," she said. "And if I don't consciousness bully astir the mode I look, past I conscionable don't run to the champion of my ability—in being a mom, successful being a friend, astatine work, successful immoderate of those things."

Nell's proposal for caller moms struggling to find themselves postpartum is simple: "Figure retired what makes you happy...and prosecute it relentlessly. Don't interest astir being trendy, bash what feels bully to you. That's the lone way to get existent intelligence wellness benefits retired of it."