Behind every curated postpartum image is a body that has crossed a threshold it can never uncross. Skin has been mapped with new lines, muscles pulled and stitched, organs shifted to make room for life. Hormones rise and crash without warning, and the reflection in the mirror can feel like a stranger’s. Some women move through recovery quickly; others carry pain, numbness, or exhaustion for months, even years. None of these timelines are wrong.
Healing becomes more humane when we stop treating the “before” body as the gold standard and the “after” as a project. The middle — the leaking, aching, swollen, tender middle — is where truth lives. New mothers don’t need praise for shrinking; they need permission to expand into a new self. A postpartum body is not a broken version of what was, but living evidence of survival, devotion, and astonishing resilience.
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