Archive for the ‘cosmetic surgery’ tag
Is the ‘Mom Job’ Really Necessary?
Post-pregnancy bodies marketed as pathology. How depressing. 
Is the 'Mom Job' Really Necessary?
- New York Times
In 1970, “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” the seminal guide to women’s health, described the cosmetic changes that can happen during and after pregnancy simply as phenomena. But now narrowing beauty norms are recasting the transformations of motherhood as stigma.
These unforgiving standards are the offspring of pop culture and technology, a union that treats biological changes as if they were as optional as hair color.
And note: It's the marketing of elective cosmetic surgery to perfectly healthy women I take issue with… (not the existence of the option or the decision some women make about it).
Aggressively marketing some ridiculous ideal to postpartum women, however, is super ick.
As far as me, personally, a few years following three pregnancies and four total years of breastfeeding, I flirted with the idea of a breast lift and augmentation. I didn't like the message that sent to my girls, though, and I couldn't think of any acceptable explanation to give them later…
Mom to 4 kids and 2 stepkids, I am a writer writing in the heart of chaos. I am the co-founder and former editor of 
