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Post-children, most mothers’ bodies are never the same again.

That doesn’t mean it can’t do great things!

Today’s inspiration is Becky Kellar.

Becky helped Canada’s women’s hockey team win a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Her first son was just 16 months-old.

• Kellar’s journey from pregnancy to the podium while nurturing baby Owen through endless bus rides and long flights was challenging and exhausting, but she cherishes every moment, reported the Toronto Star in its profile of Kellar.

  And Kellar, 32, hopes her experience will be an inspiration to other female athletes who might think having a baby will end their days of performing at an elite level – or for women in general who give up activities they love after the kids arrive.

Now pregnant with her second child, Kellar plans a repeat gold in 2010.

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It is a bad time of year to have a flabby belly. The diet industry and the gyms are storming the air-ways with advertising in the hopes of capturing the new year’s resolution crowd! Resist it, oh new mother. Don’t even get on a scale until you are 6 weeks postpartum. It is too soon in your nursing career for a commercial diet, gyms are too crowded in January for a newborn to adjust to the crêche, and your body needs some gentle treatment.

The best place for you to exercise, for now, is at home. If you really can’t motivate yourself try a postpartum exercise class run by a midwife, maternity nurse or one classified as “safe” by your clinic. Remember, most weight loss initiatives undertaken in January fail by March. You cannot afford to be in that group.

Try to resist the hype and listen to your body instead.

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