{"id":420,"date":"2024-04-06T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifementorb.de\/?p=420"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:48:38","slug":"a-mom-of-four-shares-the-raw-truth-of-postpartum-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/?p=420","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&nbsp;exposed to&nbsp;more and more judgment from society.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/tags\/social-media\/\">Social media<\/a>&nbsp;feeds are full of&nbsp;unrealistic photos that can really make someone feel uncomfortable in&nbsp;their own skin. For women with postpartum bodies, this topic can be&nbsp;the most sensitive. To&nbsp;support others, this proud mother decided to&nbsp;stop hiding behind filters or&nbsp;pieces of&nbsp;clothing and embrace the flaws that truly make&nbsp;us 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&nbsp;exposed to&nbsp;more and more judgment from society.&nbsp;Social media&nbsp;feeds are full of&nbsp;unrealistic photos that can really make someone feel uncomfortable in&nbsp;their own skin. For women with&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wow"],"views":56690,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifementorb.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}