Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

This article absolutely disgusted me. As a mother proud of my curves, stretch marks, softness, and ability to give birth to and nourish my children, I think it is absolutely pathetic that mothers in our society would feel so pressured to look like little girls again after giving birth.
Here is the link to the article
The blogger quoted at the end of the piece sums things up perfectly:
On the blog StrollerDerby, Karen Murphy, a mother of four, lambasted mommy surgery.

“Those badges of motherhood have turned into badges of shame and, if you’re the one caught without a tummy tuck, then you won’t get invited to the party,” she wrote. “It peeves me no end that something as drastic as surgery, as this blatant nonacceptance of one’s own body in whatever shape it happens to be in, has become so pervasive.”

Jenny Hatch