{"id":1338,"date":"2024-06-15T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T15:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2024-06-15T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T15:28:56","slug":"a-mom-of-four-shares-the-raw-truth-of-postpartum-bodies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyz.co.uk\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"A Mom of Four Shares the Raw Truth of Postpartum Bodies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Every day, the female body is\u00a0exposed to\u00a0more and more judgment from society.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/tags\/social-media\/\">Social media<\/a>\u00a0feeds are full of\u00a0unrealistic photos that can really make someone feel uncomfortable in\u00a0their own skin. For women with postpartum bodies, this topic can be\u00a0the most sensitive. To\u00a0support others, this proud mother decided to\u00a0stop hiding behind filters or\u00a0pieces of\u00a0clothing and embrace the flaws that truly make\u00a0us special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4304667\/#:~:text=Women%20across%20all%20maternal%20groups%20described%20how%20the%20postpartum%20period%20brought%20about%20significant%20physical%20and%20emotional%20changes%20and%20challenges%2C%20including%20exhaustion%2C%20stress%2C%20poor%20body%20image%2C%20and%20marital%20discord.%20Yet%2C%20most%20women%20did%20not%20feel%20prepared%20for%20these%20physical%20and%20emotional%20symptoms.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mothers<\/a>&nbsp;aren\u2019t prepared for the challenges that come after childbirth.\u201cI&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mama3xxx\/video\/7040147849346059526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn\u2019t<\/a>&nbsp;know that&nbsp;I would have as&nbsp;much loose skin as&nbsp;I&nbsp;do now, and stretch marks. No&nbsp;one ever discussed&nbsp;it, my&nbsp;doctors didn\u2019t discuss&nbsp;it,\u201d the mother explained. \u201cI&nbsp;didn\u2019t know that my&nbsp;body just wouldn\u2019t look the same anymore. But I&nbsp;want to&nbsp;embrace my&nbsp;body, and I\u2019m happy where I\u2019m at.\u201dSeeing tons of&nbsp;celebrities and models posing with their pregnant bellies can give&nbsp;us the wrong image. They can make&nbsp;us believe that perfection can exist and that something might be&nbsp;wrong with our own bodies, even lowering our confidence to&nbsp;the point that we&nbsp;forget to&nbsp;love ourselves.In&nbsp;one of&nbsp;her Instagram posts, she pointed out to&nbsp;other moms that they are loved, saying, \u201cDon\u2019t&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRwb6unjmtP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">let<\/a>&nbsp;society trick you into believing you need to&nbsp;be \u2019fixed.\u2019 Your body is&nbsp;not wrong, society&nbsp;is!\u201dSociety expects a&nbsp;different image of&nbsp;the female postpartum body.Women are expected to&nbsp;quickly bounce back to&nbsp;their pre-pregnancy bodies. For many mothers, this can feel like they\u2019re strangers in&nbsp;their own their skin. Fighting against your body means losing the battle in&nbsp;the end, but knowing how to&nbsp;accept it&nbsp;and start loving yourself from all angles is&nbsp;a&nbsp;different type of&nbsp;pure love that can only occur if&nbsp;the mother is&nbsp;100% ready to&nbsp;do&nbsp;it.The brutal honesty behind Danisha\u2019s posts makes her even prouder of&nbsp;who she&nbsp;is. \u201cOur&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cm7Arp9hY1-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">body<\/a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;meant to&nbsp;evolve and change, that is&nbsp;what happens with growth, not everyone\u2019s body will change the same and that\u2019s okay,\u201d she admitted. \u201cMy&nbsp;wonderful body carried 4&nbsp;beautiful blessings, my&nbsp;belly is&nbsp;a&nbsp;reminder of&nbsp;that and signifies growth. It&nbsp;has taken me&nbsp;a&nbsp;long time to&nbsp;accept her, love her, and appreciate her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, the female body is\u00a0exposed to\u00a0more and more judgment from society.\u00a0Social media\u00a0feeds are full of\u00a0unrealistic photos that can really make someone feel uncomfortable in\u00a0their own skin. 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