Pregnancy is a magical time, there’s no denying that, but in the UK, it also comes with a slice of societal pressure to “bounce back” quickly after birth.
There are some typical symptoms we all know a lot about - from the sickness to the tiredness, but there are some lesser discussed parts of pregnancy that deserve to be given some more air time.
Like the pressure to ‘bounce back’ after birth. In former TOWIE star Lauren Pope’s new Yahoo UK pregnancy video series The Baby Bump, the 37-year-old discusses hot topics regularly spoken about by pregnant women.
In the first episode on self care, Pope speaks to doula, Beccy Hands and midwife, Alexis Stickland, owners of The Mother Box, about the UK’s pre-occupation with bouncing back post-birth.