10 WTF Surprises of Being a New Mom That You'll Never Read in Any Book

Remember going back home after your first year away at college and feeling like everything was the same but slightly worse? Welcome to your postpartum body. About four weeks after I'd had my baby, I discovered I had stretch marks. On my butt. I still don't know what was more surprising: that you could get stretch marks there, or that I didn't notice them for a solid month.