When you've given yourself permission to eat, including all those sweets and treats
that are normally off-limits, they suddenly lose their power over you. And when food doesn't have
power over you, you will have freedom to live a life that isn't bound by what you can and cannot
eat.
It's crucial to empower yourself with knowledge of what might happen as your body
changes over the coming six weeks postpartum that have the potential to delay your recovery.
The minute our babies are born, our bellies—once celebrated—must now,
immediately, be hidden until they go back to "normal." Our bodies are worse than forgotten. They
become Enemy Number One. It took 10 months for our bellies to become what they were, and yet our
bellies are expected to disappear the moment a baby is born.
