024: Body Image in Pregnancy & Postpartum

True Food Freedom & Faith with Cheryl Szarko, RDN

I am answering a listener question in today's podcast. She wanted me to address concerns about body image and weight gain for pregnant and postpartum women. Although I will mainly be addressing pregnancy, all of this applies equally to the postpartum or lactating stage women, as well.

Pregnancy is usually considered a joyous event worth celebrating. And I hope it still is, but I’ve seen some other priorities come in and zap some of the joy – and importance – of childbearing out of the experience. While living in an image-saturated culture that is obsessed with thinness can be especially provoking to women who are pregnant, whose bodies are not as controllable as before, and who can have many conflicting emotions about this.

Let me discuss this openly and encourage you new mommies and mommies-to-be if you are one who battles the challenges of body image issues during this most precious season of life!

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