A rant about body image on social media
I’m trying to stay off social media as my algorithm keeps giving me very negative / traumatic birth stories and it’s not good for my anxiety. It’s mainly TikTok and I’ve been safe on instagram but now I keep seeing videos from people saying they lost their spark from having a baby, or ‘no one talks about how hard it is going from this to…’ and it’ll be someone who has gained weight after having a baby. Yes they do talk about it because it’s all I see. It’s so negative and demotivating.
Maybe I will feel like that postpartum and sympathise but it seems like a really toxic trend to me?? Then on the other side there are people on my social media who have recently had a baby and keep posting about how they now fit into their pre-pregnancy clothes like it’s this HUGE achievement, how they’re back at the gym etc.
I’m not going to lie, I am scared of what my body with look like postpartum but I pray I’m not this focused on it. I’m already sick of people commenting on my body during pregnancy and the size of my bump then I open my phone and it feels like there’s no escape. I hope there’s another side out there I haven’t found yet where we just celebrate how amazing our bodies are for creating a human being rather than how our clothes fit etc :(