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[quote=Anonymous]Your body may not be the same as it has been pre-kid. You are allowed to worry about that because changes to how we look can sometimes feel like a change to who we are. Motherhood is an active reframing of both: your identity and your body. (There are other things motherhood asks you to reframe, like your relationships sometimes, or your own thinking about certain issues..but we aren’t talking about those right now).

Look, it’s an experience. Climbing a mountain also temporarily changes your body. So does getting sick, or strong, or…

Think about why you care. You may get positive attention for being petite/trim and you may be worried to lose that. Dig into it. What if you lost that attention? What would happen?

While i understand the PP’s point that if OP is having a daughter she should pay particularly close attention to what she’s going through so she can model healthy behavior for her daughter….boys absolutely also should not get the message that their mother believes her body’s shape and size is the sum of her value. [/quote]

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