Society celebrates birth but shames the postpartum body. So why must mothers bounce back?

Society celebrates birth but shames the postpartum body. So why must mothers bounce back?

[The Mercury - South Africa] - 16/02/2026
Explore the unsettling contradiction of how society reveres pregnant women yet criticises the bodies that have given birth. Why must mothers feel pressured to 'bounce back' after childbirth?
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