Do you feel pressured to have a 'bounce back' body after pregnancy?" I had my baby eight months ago, and I still don’t feel like I recognize myself in the mirror. People keep saying things like “you’ll bounce back soon” or “you look great for just having a baby,” and I don’t know how to feel about that. Anyone else dealing with insecurities from postpartum body changes? What's worked for you to gain your confidence back?

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Still going through it. I stopped following fitness influencers and started following moms who show real postpartum bodies.

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The pressure is real but the expectation is unrealistic. I think the idea of your body “bouncing back” made more sense 50+ years ago when women were having babies in their early 20s. Now, 35 is considered a “geriatric pregnancy” and in what world does a “geriatric” person “bounce back”? In my opinion, if you want to have any chance at feeling relatively normal postnatal you need to have been exercising and eating healthy throughout the pregnancy. Otherwise, it’s going to take work. It took me 10 months of pretty intense diet and exercise to lose the weight and that was after baby turned 1, they’re almost 2 now. And yet, because I didn’t lose the weight within the first year, people don’t associate my weight loss with pregnancy…they think I took Ozempic to try to be skinny again. 😒

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