Love Mum-Body
Join us to celebrate all mama-bodies. Here, you can find images of real mum-bodies and powerful words about mothers' experiences of coming to terms with these. You can add your own image below, add lines to our communal Ode to Mum-Bodies, or contact us to share your own body journey.
Being a mum changes your body. But every mum's body is amazing, miraculous, beautiful. To join this activity, focus on a part of your body that has changed since you brought children into the world: a stretch mark, a wrinkle, a wider smile perhaps? Share it with us. Love your Mum Body.
Click on 'instructions' below to find out more and read some fantastic #Lovemumbody guest posts from mums. In addition to the links below, you might also enjoy this post from a #somum Make Date: conversations and creations from mothers relating to our mum-bodies: Belly-flaps, Spider Veins and Hobbit-toes.
instructions
You can take a photo, or you can squidge it. We don't mind, as long as you love it.
Take a close-up photo of a part of your body that shows you're a mum - a part of your body that you'd like to love more... Upload your photo here, and name it.
Or you can show us that part of you in plasticine. Or clay, or play dough, or anything you can squidge and shape.
Love your body into being. Take a photo, upload it here, and name it.
Let's celebrate the beauty of the saggy bits, the strength of the scars, the wisdom of the sleepless nights etched under our eyes. We're not photo-shopped. We're not perfect. But our bodies have performed miracles and deserve a bit of respect. And lots and lots of love.
Once a mum, always a mum. Love your mum body.
For some more inspiration, check out these blog posts about our wonderful mum bodies:
My Body Is... Pippa Best @storyofmum
My Mom-Body in Poetry: Sonya Cisco @sonyacisco
Honouring all our Mama-Bodies: Lyndsay Kirkham @hisveganmama
I Earned My Stripes: Becky Gower @mummyadventure
Post-Baby Perfect? Adele Jarrett-Kerr @AdeleJK
Worrying about Nipples: Tattooed Mummy @Tattooed_Mummy
When you can't love your Mum-Body: Emma @TheRealSupermum
Love it. Period: Lisa Hassan Scott @lisahassanscott
Baring my truth: my mummy tummy: Ericka Waller @ErickaWaller1
You show me yours...: Chelsea Williams @MsMummyofTwo
What's not to love?: Kate Ladd @MakeshiftMummy
Trying!: Helen Tiplady @helentiplady
Battling My Body: Kirsty Curran @raspberryswirls
Trying to be proud of my Mum-Body: Catherine Jennings @BELLA_and_WILL
I've never much liked my body: Kate Holmes-Davis @kateonthinice
How do I heal the wreckage?: Elizabeth Locke @Eliza_do_Lots
Before, and After: Jeni @Joyandwoe
My Mum Body...: Kat Pearce @katpearce
Reminders of my Motherhood journey: Hannah Brooker @cupcakemumma11
Love my babies, hate my veins: Sian Lennon @sianytweet
4 simple ways to love your mum body: Lucy Thornton @thorntonlucy
Body Talk: a dad's perspective: Andy Harris @hitmanharris
Gifts of a Post-Baby Body: Kimberly Riggins @kimberlyriggins
My squidgy post-baby belly: Rachael Blair @mushroomsmum
Love Mum Body: My story: Kirsten Hanlon @mumsmore
Love your acorns: Pippa Best @storyofmum
Powerful mothers: On body distraction and changing the world: Pippa Best @storyofmum
Emergency! Send pants: Pippa Best @storyofmum
What do you love most about your mum-body?: Various mums
Belly-flaps, spider-veins and Hobbit-toes: Various mums
Body by Baby: Inspiration from I Like Beer and Babies: @beerandbabies
