Body Image During Pregnancy

I write this while I am 6 months pregnant (almost 7 fun, I always try to count ahead, because I am excited that little booboo arrives). The purpose of this blog post is to help women feel less alone, to be seen more and to share my experience so far. Your body may be something that you are struggling with today, and I want you to know that ok.

The joy and gratitude that eats with pregnancy are huge and it is such a beautiful wonderful time. I am grateful for it every day, especially when those small stairs arrive, but does not mean that there are Taugh days. & For those tough days it is good to have a friend to talk to and feel heard.

To get started, let’s quickly define the body image, it shows your opinion, mental image and perception of your own body (such as your size, form, appearance) and the posture (such as your emotional beliefs, feelings and thoughts) towards your OW body. It can be an honest reflection, but often we often see ourselves to little other than how the honest reality is at the moment.

Pregnancy is so essential in the life of a woman when her body goes the turn of great transioning. Research You have shown that during pregnancy and the postpartum, women have an unhappy with their bodies that they judged about how they found themselves about their bodies pre-Chapnancy.

What is important to remember is that we are all different and the way our body grows, changing and forming during and after pregnancy is so unique for everyone. Sub -women go through their entire pregnancy and do not enjoy how things are and that’s okay.

Part of what makes this difficult is that we are overwhelmed with images of expected motions with perfect baby bumps and weight that was only extracted in her belly compared to somewhere else in her body. & This is simply not the reality for the majority of women and trying to fit in that box is toxic in my opinion.

These pigmentation and varicose veins that can develop for sub-women. This transformation takes place for 10 months (not 9 fun because you are actually 40 weeks pregnant), the mental stress and the external pressure of continuing to feel fit – not great.

Reasons that this happens to women:

1. Natural weight gain during pregnancy is crooked by the comfort in which we were. You are used to a certain body shape and the weight where you have been to work for a while or are working hard and this is an important change of 11-16 kg for normal BMI, is a HGE shift in a Relativley Shorts Journal of Time. A weight gain of 11-16 kg usually happens for at least 3-4 years as a sub-subdom.
2. Pregnancy changes your usual atmosphere: fatigue, lack of fitness, the feeling of ‘lens capable of doing things’ selecuse of discomfort, pain, pain, nausea, vomiting – especially during that Dury. This was difficult for me to deal with in the first quarterly scholars and the expectation disease of the expectation to last all day. So I had to move my training schedule from the usual 5-6 times a week to 3 times a week until I felt better in my second TRMelester.
3. The fashion industry can make this difficult. Pregnancy jeans are just not cute lol This is a total personal opinion, but as I think they don’t work as a culoy for me. It is also stuggle to find the right that I often have to shop and return to Whoe Set Items that don’t work – I don’t think this process is so coated fun. So more than not, I ultimately wear loose and formless clothing that do not always help you feel at your best.
4. Can activate social media

• The internet is filled with pregnant photos of celebrities that have been edited to look a cellerin – not always realistic -way
• Pregnant women eventually expect to look like them and to create a mental picture of a ‘pergnant’ body – that is not possessed because the change in our body is much outside of our control during this time (to a certain extent).
• This can lead to a negative body image and self -enhancing for others to fit in that box and to seem attractive to others.

How can you minimize the problems with the body image during pregnancy?

1. Understand the physiological changes that your body runs through during pregnancy. This image below helped me to understand where and how the weight goes.

2. Talk to people you trust and share your thoughts and feelings. You

3. Do you be aware of your thoughts – actually or do you put pressure on yourself?

4. Regular exercise (if there is no medical limitation). Do your best during this time. At this time, excise duty can help you with mental and physical health and it helps to release endorphins that can improve your well -being.

5. Healthy eating. Good quality food such as full grains, green leafy vegetables, healthy fats and low -fat proteins will feed you and your growing baby. Having chips, chocolate and other less nourishing food is okay in a scarce quantity during pregnancy, as long as your most important focus is the nourishing food.

6. Make a summary that relaxes and gives you a good feeling to make a prenatal massage.

7. Talk to a therapist if necessary.

8. And please remember that you are not alone.

I will leave you with these thoughts and conversations that I have had with people around pregnancy:

1. When we look back, it is not so bad as we think it was, this time an appearance and try to be presented.
2. Dress your bump even, even if you are not there at that time, if you look back, you would like to see it.
3. Know that this is normal, the inconvenience is common. It is good that you know that this is happening, so that you can comfort yourself during this time and know that it will pass.
4. Wear things that make you comfortable – I am 90% of the time in a leggings
5. On the advice that I give myself 6 months pregnant, shopping for clothing that helps embrace this new phase instead of being stuck with what I currently have in my wardrobe.

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