Women are rarely prepared for how pregnancy can change their bodies. This hashtag helps moms love each other!
Stretch marks, extra pounds, sagging breasts, thin hair, depression, one shoe size more: Moms can do all of this and more after a pregnancy. But we must finally stop condemning our bodies that do so much wonderful. Blogger and mother of six January Harshe helps us with this.
After her fifth baby, the Texan had already got into the habit of reciting this mantra every day: "January, today may be your last day in life, why do you spend it hating yourself? Your body gave birth to six people, time to appreciate him. "
Finally she called the movement #takebackpostpartum ("get postpartum right again") in life. The six-time mother and blogger had enough of the fact that the hashtag #postpartum was used by companies to sell stretch mark creams and diet products to women.
The 35-year-old thought: The weeks and months after the birth of a baby are not exactly easy anyway – and instead of having to concentrate on getting taut and slim again as quickly as possible, it wouldn't be much better to celebrate, what IS right now?
To do that, she called on new mothers to use social media to show the bare truth. Stretch marks, bumps, sagging breasts, wrinkles where there were none before – or, in other words, everything that is retouched in magazines and advertisements – should be under #takebackpostpartumpresented as what they are: part of the journey to becoming a mother.
With the unretouched photos of mothers, January Harshe wants to counter the media-controlled image drawn by women with something powerful and positive. By making bodies as visible as they are, with all their scars and shapes and in all their splendor.
So that we all learn to celebrate our bodies instead of condemning them in front of the mirror!