Your Body After Childbirth: How to Reconnect With Yourself

After childbirth your body changes, and your relationship with yourself changes along with it. Exhaustion, sleepless nights, new sensations, a stranger in the mirror — all of this affects intimacy more than people usually admit. And almost every woman hears that question from somewhere: "So when are you going to...?" Let's answer right away: there is no timeline. Your body, your time, your decision. This article is about reconnecting with yourself, not about getting back to your old self as fast as possible.

You Don't Need Your Old Shape Back

Let's start with what deserves to be crossed off your to-do list. Returning to your "old body" is not a required goal and not a measure of how well you're doing. Your body went through pregnancy and childbirth, and it doesn't owe anyone the appearance that nothing happened.