On Tik Tok, a mom took the floor to detail the physical realities of pregnancy on a woman’s body. His massively shared video has been viewed nearly a million times.
Many women have discovered it the hard way: pregnancy and motherhood are not really what they were sold in the first place. With reflections as benevolent as toxic such as: “You will see pregnancy is just happiness” or “if you really want it, your body will recover quickly”, those around them help make them believe that having a baby do not involve them that much, both psychically and physically. And yet …
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On Tik Tok, a young woman (@yesterdaysmakeup), a mom too, wanted to put things in their place. “Stop pretending pregnancy is a low risk uterus rental on Airbnb. There are some very serious post-pregnancy implications that no one is talking about. “ And indeed, the consequences of pregnancy and childbirth on the body can be omnipresent for a long time. She wished to take the example of several of her friends to support her remarks. “I have a friend who has to put a small container in her bladder so she doesn’t leak urine wherever she goes. Another who continues to have milk in her breasts five years after giving birth and who still splashes her darling’s face with it. Another who has to insert her fingers into her vagina to push back her colon to avoid pooping. And yet another who takes medication to treat the thyroid every day one hour after eating and three hours after eating … “
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Pregnancy is very serious
To pretend that welcoming a child in their womb, giving them life and becoming a mother is just plain fun that everyone can participate in without a problem is a big lie. If all women are not necessarily inhabited by maternal love as soon as they learn of their pregnancy (or even after), many of them admit that there are no experiences comparable to the adventure of motherhood. maternity.
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Yes, pregnancy is something extraordinary, beautiful, precious, but it is also far from easy and it can be dangerous to pretend otherwise. If we stopped embellishing reality, mothers-to-be would know what to expect and would probably suffer less from the difficulties that arise when they have been warned. As this Tik Tok user puts it so well, “Pregnancy is something that impacts your body forever, regardless of whether or not you choose to be a mother. “ Nothing to add !