الاثنين، 24 سبتمبر 2018

‘There are pressures to keep working to the end of pregnancy - to keep up’

Young pregnant women are significantly more anxious and overwhelmed than a generation ago. What’s behind this rise, and what are the solutions?

When Jasmine Hanks, 27, was pregnant with her first child, so was Beyoncé, as well as some of the cast of The Only Way is Essex. “I think this is really stupid,” she says, sounding embarrassed, but still pained. “I followed them on Instagram; they had perfect bumps and looked really glam. When you’re heavily pregnant, you think you look an absolute sight in comparison – that does nothing for your self-esteem.”

Hanks checked Instagram first thing in the morning, then Facebook on her lunchbreak, and found an inexorable onslaught of feelings of inadequacy – which she found much more distressing in pregnancy than before. “You’re constantly having these images of perfect, beautiful women thrust in your face all the time. It’s quite difficult to see past what’s in front of you in the mirror.”

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QWwDOH

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