New study suggests it can take moms at least three years to get their self-esteem back after having a baby.
It’s no secret having a baby changes everything. There’s a ton of emphasis on the way pregnancy changes your body, but becoming a mom can massively change the way you feel about yourself overall. In fact, a new study suggests that having a baby can wreak havoc on a mom’s overall self-esteem for years.surveyed more than 84,000 pregnant women during pregnancy, and up to three years after their babies were born.
Also, if you didn’t feel like a glowing goddess during your pregnancy, you’re not alone. The study found that women’s self-esteem took a dive as their pregnancy progressed. We can see that. Unless you’re Beyonce, the actual pregnancy goddess, second and third trimester joys like swelling, waddling, the inability to tie your own shoes, and peeing your pants a little when you laugh don’t exactly make you feel great about yourself.
Once the baby arrived, new moms reported an increase in self-esteem for the first six months of their baby’s life. Sure, you’re sleep deprived and pumped full of hormones, but you’ve also caring for another person and managing to keep yourself alive at the same time, so yeah, you’re basically Wonder Woman.
But recovering from having a baby is so much more than how fast we can “bounce back” and get into our pre-baby jeans. Turns out those perfectly posed photos on Facebook of happy couples and their newborn fool are mostly for show. Many moms revealed that once that first six month afterglow period was over their self-esteem took a hit again and stayed that way, even three years after the baby was born. .
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