The body feeling during pregnancy - how it changes and how you can enjoy

Pregnancy changes almost everything in your body. After each single day, nothing is the same as before.

For many women this is a big challenge, others love to see the bump grow.

The topic of femininity in today's Western world is strongly influenced by ideals, and many women are under pressure from external expectations of female role models. They wonder what motherhood will take away from them, including physically.

The temptation to compare ourselves to others is ever-present in everyday life and on social media, repeatedly demonstrating how things are supposed to be. If the body doesn't return to its original shape quickly enough after birth, questions arise not only about expectations but also about our own identity: We are body, soul, and spirit, and the body plays a significant role in our self-perception.

Our experiences, beliefs, joys, and sorrows are all stored in our body cells. Pregnancy and childbirth also change our overall existence, and not just on the surface. So how can we cope when our body undergoes such a profound experience? Is it possible to prepare for it and smooth the transition to a new attitude to life? Does everything have to be overturned? Will I really not recognize myself anymore?

There's no general answer to all these questions. Each person's experience is so unique that it's almost impossible to narrow down the answer to a specific question. Therefore, the most sensible approach is to inspire new thoughts, which can then form within you according to your own taste:

If you wish, you can weave the following ideas within you and allow them to take effect:

Your body performs a miracle – and it is a sign of your femininity, not opposed to it

Your body was designed by nature specifically to conceive, carry, and deliver a baby. It was never meant to be forced into a mold, forcibly altered, or subjected to pressure.

Femininity isn't measured by the size of your hips, the absence of stretch marks, or your dress size. It seems truly absurd that so many women base their sense of femininity on the evaluations of society and advertising, rather than on what they are naturally wired to do.

As a woman, you define femininity for yourself individually. If you identify as a woman and your body experiences pregnancy, this is part of your personal femininity. If you have a natural birth or a cesarean section, if you breastfeed or choose not to, if your body changes significantly or barely at all, then this is part of your personal femininity. No one experiences this quite like you. No one who is with you or gives you their love has the right to demand anything other than what naturally happens within you, in your body, soul, and spirit, during this time.

You now have the chance to focus once and for all on the things that are really important to you

Pregnancy creates a new awareness in your body. It may, but doesn't necessarily, happen that this process causes you to begin thinking about certain topics in a radically different way than you have before.

Some women were previously very focused on what others thought of them. During pregnancy, they develop into expressive, impressive, beautiful, wild women who suddenly realize that they have rights, that it doesn't matter at all what others think of them, that they no longer allow anyone to judge them, their decisions, or their bodies.

Others are deeply exploring who they want to be for the first time. They are coming into contact with their needs, desires, and limits because their bodies, through hormones, changes, and special circumstances, are sensitively sending signals about what they need.

In addition, the time of pregnancy can also be a space for deep self-reflection, peace, and a new direction. Having a family and a baby doesn't have to mean you have to practice even more self-sacrifice as a woman. On the contrary: You can use the family space to learn, to make room for yourself, to help shape reality, and to stand up for everything you need.

Naturally, the connection with your baby is one of the most important processes in your mind and body. Here, you can be inspired by the thought that, thanks to you, your child has everything, absolutely everything, it needs at this very moment. You are your baby's entire world, the ideal living space, pure security. Your body is successfully working to be a warm, secure home in which your child can develop. Let this natural process encourage you that you will also develop a primal instinct for your role as a mother, one that will guide you in knowing what your child needs.

You grow beyond yourself

Through your pregnancy and birth, you will have the valuable experience of being capable of so much more than you previously believed. Regardless of whether this is your first child/pregnancy or another – with each experience, you can learn not only for this area but for your entire life how incredibly powerful and strong you are, and what wonders being human brings with it. You are the guardian and giver of life, creating new things, in effect creating a reality that didn't exist before.

When the miracle of change and transformation takes place in your body, you can experience that the widespread focus on an old, backward-looking, rejuvenating existence is not the most appealing. Rather, human beings strive for something new, for further development, for the future. Growing up, the maturing process of your personality, can take on a very special radiance if you allow yourself to find it.

It's not to be confused with accepting a monotonous daily routine with tasks you won't enjoy and a feeling in your body that seems unfeminine and unerotic. Quite the opposite. If you want, you can find a whole new depth and unprecedented fulfillment in all of these areas, and transforming your body can lead you in an incredibly exciting direction of self-knowledge and self-realization.

Reinvent yourself. Decide what's important to you. What you find beautiful. Who you want to be. Experience this time as your own. Your body is your sanctuary, and this time can be sacred to you, completely independent of how other people talk about family, pregnancy, and birth.Find the inspiration that suits you and your vibrant heart and discover a new freedom in shaping your life as you wish – just as your child grows, thrives, and learns every day.

I wish you a wonderful, fulfilling pregnancy and a powerful birth!

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