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Why postpartum body image struggles feel so isolating

I delivered three weeks ago and everyone keeps asking when I'll be back to 'normal' but I look in the mirror and don't recognize this soft, stretched, leaking version of myself

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between societal myths of quick recovery and the slow reality of physical transformation challenges one's sense of continuous identity.

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