How the hell am I supposed to love this postpartum body?
How the hell am I supposed to love this postpartum body? The complexity of body image. Messaging that supports embracing our postpartum bodies rather than “body back” is SO needed; however, there is still a mucky complexity that comes with it for the women that feel like they might want plastic surgery. They may feel that they “failed” at embracing their body along with a laundry list of other failures as a mother. And so continues the guilt/ shame cycle of motherhood. I thought I would NEVER love my body and got really pissed at people that told me I should or that I would with more time. But then I DID. I found a deep love for my body.... ...with time, education, getting strong AF, and helping others. But I still didn’t want a protruding belly for the rest of my life. The problem isn’t that women get tummy tucks and boob jobs after having babies. It is that they rush into these surgeries because they have a great disdain and di