Accepting Your Post-Baby Body

How can you learn to accept (and love!) your post-baby body? Meli Comaschi-Cordoba discovers a few ways to start.

- 41.5% compare themselves to others on social media.
- 48.6% felt pressure to look a certain way.
- More than half (53.6%) rarely or never speak positively about their appearance.
- 73% wished they could change the way they look.
- Practice gratitude to your body. Write down two things your body has done for you daily. A few examples include; growing your baby, carrying them when they are unsettled or sick, recovering from a major procedure such as a caesarean, being able to breastfeed, and so on.
- Do things that are fun for you! Move your body – exercise not to punish your body, but to reward it for everything it has done for you and to get it stronger. Choose an activity that makes you smile: swim, dance lessons, join a fitness group, Pilates or yoga.
- Make it about what you can do and not about how you look. Think about performance rather than appearance.
- The Butterfly Foundation
- Neiterman E, Fox B. Soc Sci Med. 2017 Feb;174:142-148. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.12.029. Epub 2016 Dec 23. PMID:28038433

About the Author
To help other mums to feel amazing again about themselves but not only on the outside but on the inside too. She strongly believes in the importance of taking ME time to reconnect with yourself, with other mums that are on the same boat and share their experiences.
Meli is passionate about educating our mums so they know what is going on with their bodies after giving birth, know that it can take a while before it is safe to go back doing whatever they were doing before getting pregnant; but that doesn’t mean they have to stop exercising, they just need to move in a safe way helping their bodies with the postpartum process.
She says: I see many mums pushing themselves really hard because they want to look the way they used to look before becoming a mum, but only focusing on the outside. It is my mission to educate them and help them to become strong and healthy mums not only physically but mentally and spiritually as well.
Because moving and having a group to go to help to reduce the chances of having postnatal depression.
To help other mums to feel amazing again about themselves but not only on the outside but on the inside too. She strongly believes in the importance of taking ME time to reconnect with yourself, with other mums that are on the same boat and share their experiences.
Meli is passionate about educating our mums so they know what is going on with their bodies after giving birth, know that it can take a while before it is safe to go back doing whatever they were doing before getting pregnant; but that doesn’t mean they have to stop exercising, they just need to move in a safe way helping their bodies with the postpartum process.
She says: I see many mums pushing themselves really hard because they want to look the way they used to look before becoming a mum, but only focusing on the outside. It is my mission to educate them and help them to become strong and healthy mums not only physically but mentally and spiritually as well.
Because moving and having a group to go to help to reduce the chances of having postnatal depression.?