Yummy Mummy - The ideal of not looking like a mother.

CONCLUSION: Despite nuanced reflections over the body as subject and object, women identified beauty as a personal trait dependent on visual appearance. Bodily beauty was identified as something individual, yet standardised. Women felt strengthened through motherhood but looking like a mother was not considered worth pursuing. To allow for women's contradictory perspectives, caregivers are advised to communicate reflexively about the postpartum body. PMID: 31176586 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31176586?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - June 4, 2019 Category: Midwifery Authors: Prinds C, Nikolajsen H, Folmann B Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research