I'm Trapped in my Postpartum Body | Postpartum Recovery, Hormones, & Body Image

About this episode

Lo Bosworth Natale shares her raw and unfiltered experience of navigating postpartum challenges eight weeks after giving birth.

I'm 8 weeks postpartum and I'm not okay. Not in a crisis — but not in the version of this that gets posted online either. I'm in the messy, unglamorous, nobody-talks-about-this middle of it. And I wanted to put it on record, in real time, because I genuinely could not find content that showed me what this actually looks like when you're living it. I have a retained placenta. A large ovarian cyst. Bleeding that won't stop. Hormones so destabilizing they feel, I'm not exaggerating, like a psychedelic experience. And on top of all of that, a body I don't recognize, clothes that don't fit, and a version of myself I'm still trying to locate somewhere underneath all of it. The six-week appointment comes and goes and the world acts like that's the end of the story. It is not the end of the story. For a lot of us it's barely the beginning of understanding what just happened to our bodies and who we are now inside them. I made this episode because I was desperate for it and it didn't exist. Nobody shows you this part. The books don't cover it. The instagram posts skip it. The doctors send you home with almost nothing. I have nearly 900,000 followers and when I asked for postpartum expert…

People in this episode

Host: Lo Bosworth Natale

Topics covered

• postpartum recovery
• body image
• hormones
• identity shift
• mental health
• motherhood

Keywords

• postpartum
• body image
• hormonal chaos
• identity shift
• motherhood
• recovery
• mental health

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