“Bounce back”, culture is a failure of modernity. With a focus on progress, efficiency and self -optimization, modernity contributed to creating unrealized expectations of new mothers. After childbirth, women are expected to follow the toxic social expectations and quickly return to their body before pregnancy, employment and social life. It honors a quick postpartum weight loss as a sign of strength, resilience and productivity. Bounce back culture makes new mothers think that restoration of their life before pregnancy is more important than adapting to parenting and overcoming postpartum depression.
Social media, celebrity culture and even well-meaning friends and relatives support this inaccessible ideal and after birth turn into a competition instead of a much individualized healing process. The unhealthy obsession of the modern world with the size and form of a woman often ignores her remarkable changes, which are more psychological than physical. A postpartum body thought, carried and born a life; It is a miracle of the human body.
The body of a new mother is not damaged or repaired. It is unfair and harmful to put such pressure on women, to return to an earlier version of themselves and to eliminate the physical markers of what they have through. It undermines the reality that Labor is a process that takes time, attention and help instead of an isolated event.
The body of a new mother is not damaged or repaired. It is unfair and harmful to put such pressure on women, to return to an earlier version of themselves and to eliminate the physical markers of what they have through. It undermines the reality that Labor is a process that takes time, attention and help instead of an isolated event.
Although society celebrates the birth of a baby, it usually misses the challenges of the mother’s birth experience. Maternity redesigns a woman in every possible way, and this change deserves recognition, respect and space in order to develop at her own pace. Despite the tiredness and confusion, there is strength. And there is a love that is so deep that she redefines it, not through what she lost, but through what she has won.
The rise of the rebound culture
The emergence of the bounce back culture has fundamentally reformed the company’s expectations of new mothers, especially from media, celebrity culture and social media platforms. Celebrities who quickly return to their own before pregnancyKim KardashianPresent Cardi BPresent Beyoncé– creates irrational expectations in the broader public. Even if these famous women have resources that the average woman does not do, the photos still motivate the regular mothers to talk about their fights. Media representations that celebrate the ideal “delicious mummy” and a slim, tight body as the norm of parenthood emphasize this tribe even more. The way in which parenthood is presented in popular media feed, distorted stories of resilience and therefore strengthen the bounce culture.
Keyser-Verreault (2022) explains how women in Taiwan cope with beauty, often present aesthetic standards for their health and well -being. Gill and Orgad (2018) Examine how women’s publications and health -related material often create the ideal postnatal form that can jump back with controlled movement and nutrition. Social media outlets tighten these needs even more because they offer a constant stream of perfectly selected images and stories that worship a quick restoration after birth. In the emphasis on how quickly they regain their shape before pregnancy, celebrities and influencers tell their jump back stories and therefore encourage new mothers to take these events into account. The Bounce Back Society emphasizes the need for relaxation and self-sufficiency about the artificial criteria for physical beauty and production and must be adapted to give the general well-being of the mother the top priority.
The harmful effects of bounce back culture
Postpartal recovery is a decisive and yet often neglected phase in the life of a woman, so that many medical problems are not taken into account. According to WHOA study recently published in the Lancet Global Health showed that more than a third of women (35 percent) experience permanent health complications after birth that can survive for months or even years. This includes pain during sexual intercourse (dyspareunia) that affect more than a third (35 percent) of postpartum women. Pain in the lower back (32 percent); Anal continent (19 percent); Harninkontinence (8-31 percent); Fear (9-24 percent); Depression (11-17 percent); perineal pain (11 percent); Fear of birth (Tokophobia) (6-15 percent); and secondary infertility (11 percent). According to Dr. Pascale AlleTey, director of sexual and reproductive health and research at WHO, “Many postpartum conditions in the daily life of women cause considerable suffering in the daily life of women, both emotionally and physically, and they are largely signed, signed and examined.”
Dr. Pascale AlleTey continues: “During their entire life and outside of motherhood, women need access to a number of health service providers who listen to their concerns and meet their needs-and survive not only birth, but can also enjoy good health and can also enjoy and Quality of life. “Medical advice that emphasizes the need for sufficiently postpartum recreation is often ignored by the expectations of society, which force new mothers to start physical activities, households or business at an early stage and to strengthen their health problems. If you ignore the need for calm, it increases your chance of postpartum bleeding, persistent tiredness and problems with a pelvic floor. In addition to the physical healing, society expects new mothers to reconcile several roles: take care of their babies, perform homework and return to work and at the same time insert into unreachable body image standards. The demand to withdraw physically can lead to an immense psychological stress.
While mothers are exposed to immense expectations, men are rarely checked carefully. Your responsibility in postnatal recovery and care is often not taken into account, which increases the charge of new mothers in juggling juggling and childcare. Many companies also demand that women will resume full production soon after birth and thus neglect the psychological and physiological consequences of postpartum restoration. What would really benefit women is a thorough and long -term postpartum care plan with a first focus on physical and emotional well -being.
Families, companies, hospitals and doctors have to work together outside of fast medical visits to ensure that new mothers have time, care and respect they need. It can only offer women better and more robust postpartum experience by questioning unreasonable social expectations and promoting a culture of support.
Why we should celebrate quiet mothers instead
Many cultures have recorded the value of calm because this is of crucial importance for the health of a mother and well -being of their child. The postpartum restriction is underlined to guarantee that women receive the nutrients and the care required for recovery. In India and Pakistan, for example, mothers have an obligatory rest of 40 days after delivery. During this time, peace and recovery for the new mother are ensured with the help of elders. The fact that the postpartum calm helps to breastfeed and tie with a newborn is one of the main advantages of relaxation after delivery.
Research studies from Lee et al. (2022) And Hung et al. (2010) Show that the Taiwanese and Korean cultures promote calm through family help, nutritional care and emotional support and thus improve the recovery results. Mother relaxation, according to Lapillonne et al. (2023) If the likelihood of successful care increases significantly, promotes the binding, optimizes children’s diet and helps to reduce postpartum depression. Quiet is of crucial importance for mental health. Adatia et al. (2014) It found that sleep deprivation increases BMI and appetite and therefore increases postpartum depression and anxiety risk. Hung et al. (2011) claim that women who are treated at home during relaxation also have greater mental health and less stress. Social support is therefore quite important. Dennis et al. (2019) underline in certain companies that are widespread in certain societies, the organized postpartum care systems improve the results of the mother. With Polk et al. (2021) Stress differences in access to postpartum care, weak and disadvantaged mothers have more difficulties in particular. If you give the post -party priority, you can guarantee a better transition to motherhood and thus benefit families and society as a whole.
Systemic changes to support mothers rested mothers
In order to support women who recover after birth, systemic adjustments are required that significantly influence their experiences after birth. First of all, new mothers would benefit from appropriate guidelines for maternity leave, including the extension of the holiday duration and the proper reimbursement. These rules would give you the time you need to recover both physically and mentally. In addition, the common parenthood must be accepted.
The promotion of fathers and spouses to actively participate in childcare not only distributes the burden, but also helps to reduce the stress, which sometimes fall only on women. When companies are ready to help new mothers, everyone wins. More and more companies are offering domestic work or other forms of flexible work plans to encourage women to return to the workforce without negatively influencing their health or family life. By implementing these social and professional reforms, women have access to a postpartum environment that is more suitable for their needs and improves their emotional and physical health, family relationships and general happiness.
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